'Worst villain' Jim Jordan and J.D. Vance decimated by hometown newspaper

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) were compared unfavorably to one of their fellow Ohio Republicans by editorial staffers at one of the state's leading newspapers.

Four editors for Cleveland.com convened on the "Today in Ohio" podcast, where they highlighted Rep. Dave Joyce (R-OH) as the only GOP lawmaker to vote against holding U.S. attorney general Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress for refusing to turn over recordings from president Joe Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.

"This is how you erode the dam," said editor Chris Quinn. "You need one leak in the dam for it to start to spread. Anybody else that feels like Dave Joyce can look at what he did, this principled position, and say, you know, I got to get to that. We’ve got to stop turning the Republican Party into a version of Hitler and get back to kind of the centrist American ideals for which we’ve already stood."

Joyce said, as a former prosecutor himself, he could not support a resolution that would "further politicize the judicial system to score political points," and Quinn knocked Jordan for rallying the House Republican caucus to do just that.

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"The FBI is one of the most professional institutions in the history of the country," Quinn said. "Any cop reporter knows when the FBI is doing the investigation, you can generally count on high level work, and for Jim Jordan to be blasting them, to be eroding the Justice Department, faith in the Justice Department, for his political points is terrible for America and Dave Joyce knew it. He said it and it’s so good that a guy from Ohio is the one that stood against the worst villain in Congress from Ohio, which is Jim Jordan."

Vance also took aim at the judicial system as he jockeys for position to become Trump's running mate, saying he would block 40 Biden nominees for federal judge and other federal posts and halt expedited passage of legislation that he and other Republicans believe aren't relative to public safety or national security.

"J.D. Vance is in overdrive, apparently in his effort to win Donald Trump’s nod for vice president, but the things he is doing are horribly damaging to the American public," Quinn said.