Republican Ohio state Sen. Matt Dolan on Tuesday introduced one other marketing campaign for U.S. Senate, changing into the primary GOP candidate to declare his 2024 candidacy for the seat.
Dolan, who got here in third in final yr’s Republican main for the seat now held by Sen. J.D. Vance, hopes to problem incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who was first elected to the post in 2006.
“A lot can change in 30 years, but in that time Sherrod Brown’s blind loyalty to his party has remained the same,” Dolan wrote on Twitter. “I have a record of conservative, results-driven leadership,”
Dolan beforehand signaled that his defeat within the 2022 main wouldn’t cease him from pursuing one other run.
“This isn’t an obituary for me,” he told Politico in June.
The Ohio Republican has criticized former President Donald Trump and his efforts to undo the 2020 presidential election, together with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, which he called “a failure of leadership.”
Dolan has urged the GOP to shift its messaging.
“The midterm election showed us nationally that if the Republicans are going to put up folks that are focused on yesterday, running these campaigns of grievances, we’re going to lose,” Dolan told the USA Today Network Ohio bureau.
Following the 2022 main, Dolan created the Ohio Matters Super PAC, which supported GOP candidates against political extremism.
Dolan, a lawyer whose household owns the Cleveland Guardians, self-funded a part of his earlier Senate marketing campaign, placing ahead about $10 million in private financing, according to Politico.
Ohio has undergone a political realignment in recent times, doubtlessly representing an excellent pickup alternative for the GOP. While Ohioans voted for Barack Obama as president in 2008 and 2012, they picked Trump within the subsequent two presidential contests.
In 2020, Trump defeated Biden by 8 factors within the state.
