{"id":1725356,"date":"2022-11-06T18:23:24","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725356"},"modified":"2022-11-06T18:25:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T23:25:17","slug":"a-mirage-jd-vance-says-tim-ryan-never-had-a-chance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-mirage-jd-vance-says-tim-ryan-never-had-a-chance\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Mirage\u2019: JD Vance Says Tim Ryan Never Had a Chance"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-mirage-jd-vance-says-tim-ryan-never-had-a-chance%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1725356&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio\u2014Republican J.D. Vance says he never had a doubt that Ohio voters would eventually wake up to what is at stake in the upcoming Senate election.<\/p>\n<p>After months of what appeared to be a neck-and-neck race with Democratic Senate nominee Tim Ryan, polls show Vance is finally breaking through with voters. But, Vance told the Washington Free Beacon in an interview, it\u2019s not because his message changed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The energy is higher as you get closer to Election Day, but I\u2019ve always thought the idea this race was close was a bit of a mirage,&#8221; Vance said on Saturday. &#8220;A lot of our base just wasn\u2019t really paying attention to politics, they were on vacation or hanging out with their kids.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The most recent polls find Vance leading anywhere\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cygn.al\/cygnal-momentum-tracking-poll-ohio-statewide-11-4-22\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from 6<\/a> to as much as <a href=\"https:\/\/emersoncollegepolling.com\/ohio-2022-vance-extends-lead-over-ryan-for-us-senate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">9 points<\/a>, a dramatic departure from what was <a href=\"https:\/\/maristpoll.marist.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Marist-Poll_OH-NOS-and-Tables_202210211358.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">considered<\/a> a statistically tied race as recently as October. The polling lead makes Vance the most likely Republican in states considered a &#8220;battleground&#8221; to prevail on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Vance\u2019s solid lead\u2014he told the Free Beacon he now &#8220;loves the polls&#8221;\u2014doesn\u2019t come as a major surprise. Former president Donald Trump won the state twice by 8 points, and retiring Sen. Rob Portman\u2019s seat has been occupied by a Republican since 1999. Even as Ryan performed well in summer polls, election prognosticators across the board always viewed Ohio as a likely Republican win, no matter what the polls said.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan has struggled in the final stretch to answer questions about <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/tim-ryan-will-entertain-your-conspiracy-theory-analysis-finds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his record<\/a>. In a recent Fox News town hall, he was asked by voters about his past statements endorsing a variety of far-left policies such as dramatically reducing the prison population.\u00a0In response, Ryan said he only meant that the United States should legalize marijuana. <\/p>\n<p>When asked whether he has any regrets about voting 100 percent of the time with President Joe Biden, he deflected and called for a tax cut to help Americans financially struggling amid record-high inflation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019ve hammered Ryan on the airwaves over his record,&#8221; Vance told the Free Beacon. &#8220;So now when I talk to voters they\u2019re aware he\u2019s anti-energy, anti-cop.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan\u2019s trouble with answering questions on his own record is emblematic of the issues plaguing his campaign. Although he pitches himself as the kind of Democrat who can win back Trump voters, he finds it difficult to break from his party\u2019s activist base.<\/p>\n<p>At the end<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio\u2014Republican J.D. Vance says he never had a doubt that Ohio voters would eventually wake up to what is at stake in the upcoming Senate election.<br \/>\nThe post \u2018A Mirage\u2019: JD Vance Says Tim Ryan Never Had a Chance appeared first on Washington Free Beacon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":197,"featured_media":1725371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1725356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/197"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1725356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1725356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1725371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1725356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1725356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1725356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}