All posts tagged "Ohio"

Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who is accused of abusing his ex-wife, faces a new headache after his girlfriend of two years was indicted on theft-related charges, Mother Jones reported on Friday.

Jaclyn Alatrash, an anesthesia assistant and bodybuilder who has been dating Miller for roughly two years, was charged by a Cuyahoga County grand jury this week. She faces grand theft, telecommunications fraud and credit card misuse counts, based on claims from her former husband, Matthew Kampert, that she charged more than $9,000 in groceries and other goods to his card once their marriage had ended. Kampert said she was never an authorized user, even while they were married.

The accusations were first aired in May by The Rooster, a progressive Ohio blog. Instacart records Mother Jones reviewed show many of the orders went to Miller's northeast Ohio home. They include purchases from Spirit Halloween, Ulta Beauty, the Vitamin Shoppe, and Costco....

Vice President JD Vance faced a wave of backlash Friday after making a personal joke about an Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate during a campaign rally in his home state.

Speaking in Lima, Ohio, at an event supporting Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivek Ramaswamy, Vance called Democrat Amy Acton, the former Ohio health director, “a crazy person” before taking a more personal shot.

“Now, I did promise Amy that I would meet her at a bar later,” Vance told the crowd. “I understand that she’s into that sort of thing. So I’m gonna try to get to know her a little bit better.”...

Republican groups are pouring millions into rescuing Ohio Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) as he lashes out at GOP senators who wanted him gone.

Miller looked like a long shot over the summer after his ex-wife leveled domestic violence allegations against him. Ohio's two Republican senators said he should exit the race, and President Donald Trump warned him his odds weren't good, according to reporting by The Wall Street Journal.

Now the GOP is going all in. The Journal reported Tuesday that the Congressional Leadership Fund, a super PAC aligned with House GOP leadership, committed roughly $5 million to ads in the district last month, while the National Republican Congressional Committee has also bought airtime. Democrats have countered with a blitz of nearly $6 million....

Voters in a deep-red state are turning on President Donald Trump as he arrives to rally for struggling Republican candidates.

The Guardian reported Saturday that Trump's standing in Ohio has collapsed during his second term, with a Marist poll taken late last month finding 56 percent of registered voters there disapprove of his job performance.

Trump is set to appear Saturday in Montgomery County, a longtime swing county near Dayton that he lost by just 1,201 votes in 2024, to boost Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) and gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. Both men are trailing their Democratic opponents, Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton....

President Donald Trump's voters shredded Vivek Ramaswamy's bid for Ohio governor, knocking the Republican as rich, out of touch and full of empty promises.

The voters, all of whom backed Trump in 2024 but now disapprove of his job performance, spoke with former GOP pollster Sarah Longwell for an episode of The Bulwark's "Focus Group" podcast released Saturday.

"I guess if he's one of Trump's boys, that tells me all I need to know," one voter said. "The only thing I've heard about him is that he's for the data centers, and I think about how does that help me as a person, as a working person."...

Financial disclosures filed by Ohio Republican U.S. Sen. Jon Husted with the Ohio Ethics Commission show that the quasi-private economic development entity JobsOhio gave gifts to Husted in 2021, 2022, and 2023 when he was lieutenant governor.

The gifts could have been as paltry as a meal at a local restaurant or they could have been trips worth thousands, but Husted’s office won’t say what gifts JobsOhio gave him or what they were worth, neither will JobsOhio, and Ohio law doesn’t require them to.

Husted approaches a close midterm election contest against former Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat....