{"id":2244964,"date":"2024-05-15T09:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-lean-on-inactive-midterm-voters-to-flip-key-house-seat-in-ohio-memo\/"},"modified":"2024-05-15T09:59:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T13:59:13","slug":"republicans-lean-on-inactive-midterm-voters-to-flip-key-house-seat-in-ohio-memo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-lean-on-inactive-midterm-voters-to-flip-key-house-seat-in-ohio-memo\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans target non-voters to win crucial Ohio House seat: Memo"},"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\">20<\/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%2Frepublicans-lean-on-inactive-midterm-voters-to-flip-key-house-seat-in-ohio-memo%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=2244964&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>House Republicans are targeting non-voters from the 2022 midterms to secure \u2063wins in November. They aim to convert\u2062 these voters to support GOP \u2062candidates \u200bin the highly competitive Ohio\u2019s 13th Congressional District. Recent \u200bpolling indicates a preference for former \u2064President \u200bTrump \u200dover President Biden among these inactive voters, giving Republicans an advantage in the upcoming elections.\u200d House Republicans are strategically focusing on non-voters from the 2022 midterms to win in November. Their target is to sway these \u200bvoters to back GOP\u2063 candidates in Ohio\u2019s 13th Congressional \u200bDistrict. Polling reveals that inactive voters prefer former President Trump over President Biden, providing Republicans an edge in the upcoming\u200d elections.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>EXCLUSIVE \u2014 <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/house-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"House Republicans\">House Republicans<\/a> are relying on voters who did not participate in the 2022 midterm elections to deliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>big wins in November,<\/a> looking to the voting bloc as their secret weapon to flip key House seats and expand on their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mtg-presents-case-for-removing-johnson-as-speaker-in-appeal-to-house-gop\/\" title=\"MTG urges House GOP to reconsider Speaker Johnson's position\">historically slim majority<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Republican strategists in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ohio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Ohio\u2019s<\/a> 13th Congressional District are homing in on voters who abstained from casting their ballots in 2022, hoping to build on the party\u2019s momentum over the last decade to produce high turnout for GOP candidates. Recent polling shows those inactive voters in the district, which is considered to be one of the most competitive of the 2024 cycle, are more likely to back former President Donald Trump over President Joe Biden, giving Republicans an edge as they head into November. <\/p>\n<p>Among voters who did not turn out in 2022, 45% of those in the district say they\u2019d back Trump in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/charles-barkley-threatens-to-punch-any-black-person-wearing-trumps-mug-shot-merch\/\" title=\"Charles Barkley warns of physical confrontation with black individuals sporting Trump's mug shot merchandise\">presidential election compared<\/a> to just 38% who said they\u2019d vote for Biden, according to internal polling conducted by the National Republican Congressional Committee obtained by the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The polling memo cited data showing the district increasingly trending to the right over the last decade, with then-presidential candidate Mitt Romney losing the district by double digits in 2012 before Trump narrowed that margin to just 2 points in 2016. Biden won the district by just 2.8 points. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis group has a higher concentration of non-college educated voters and includes 27,000 modeled Republican voters,\u201d the memo states. \u201cThese same voters pushed the district 9 points to the right in 2016 and will help Republicans win in 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That could spell trouble for incumbent Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH), who narrowly won the district in 2022 in an upset victory over Republican candidate Madison Gesiotto Gilbert. However, Republican strategists argue their problem was that the party \u201cdidn\u2019t have a viable candidate to vote for,\u201d leading to Sykes\u2019s victory. <\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Rep. Emilia Sykes (D-OH) speaks at a media briefing Monday, April 17, 2023, at Ashworth Temple in Akron, Ohio, after a grand jury decision not to charge eight Akron police officers in the shooting death of Jayland Walker last summer. (AP Photo\/Phil Long)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Now she must face Republican candidate Kevin Coughlin in a presidential year when Trump\u2019s presence on the ballot could motivate turnout for Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump, for a lot of these competitive congressional races, basically supplies your floor,\u201d a source with knowledge of Coughlin\u2019s campaign strategy told the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em>\u201cHis voters are coming out \u2026 unlike they did in the year that he\u2019s not on the ballot. And so it\u2019s kind of raises the floor for a lot of these candidates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That means Coughlin would only need to outperform Trump\u2019s presidential ticket by roughly 3 percentage points in the district, he said, which \u201cseems pretty doable for a targeted campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another national GOP operative familiar with the party\u2019s strategy said Republicans are likely to capitalize on that, along with Sykes\u2019s status as a relatively unknown freshman, to flip the seat. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe certainly can capitalize on that by getting Kevin out there early and defining him in a positive light,\u201d the operative said, pointing to the memo\u2019s objective to paint Coughlin as someone who can \u201cconnect with the working-class nature of the district.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, Democratic strategists pushed back on that narrative, arguing the Republican candidate is out of touch on a slew of issues such as abortion and Social Security. The party also noted the absence of polling on a head-to-head challenge between Coughlin and Sykes, arguing the Democratic incumbent is in good shape for her reelection bid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKevin Coughlin has bragged about voting to restrict abortion access and wants to gut Social Security and Medicare,\u201d Aidan Johnson, spokesperson for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, told the <em>Washington Examiner. <\/em>\u201cThe NRCC had to scrape the bottom of the barrel in this poll because they couldn\u2019t find anything positive to say about their extreme GOP nominee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republicans say they plan to focus on other <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shes-fing-up-democrats-reportedly-worried-kamala-harris-cant-beat-any-republican-in-2024-including-trump\/\" title=\"\u2018She\u2019s F***ing Up\u2019: Democrats Reportedly Worried Kamala Harris Can\u2019t Beat Any Republican In 2024, Including Trump\">high-profile issues<\/a>, including the border and inflation, as part of their strategy in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as \"Always the Smartest Person in the Room\" Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES\">key battleground state<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Coughlin could also benefit from the high-profile Ohio Senate race between Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and GOP candidate Bernie Moreno, which is expected to attract millions of dollars from national Republicans as they seek to flip the vulnerable Senate seat. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf voters are seeing the ads for Bernie and Trump out in their district, I think there\u2019ll be \u2014 Coughlin will be able to ride the coattails of those ads a little bit,\u201d the operative said. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coughlin, for his part, is not new to challenging Democrats for their seats \u2014 and winning. The former state representative managed to flip a blue Ohio House district in 1997 and was reelected twice. He also won election to an Ohio Senate seat in a toss-up district in 2002, winning reelection in 2006. <\/p>\n<p>Ohio\u2019s 13th District is one of the most competitive House races of the 2024 cycle and could determine which party wins control of the lower chamber next year. The district is rated as R+1 and has been deemed a toss-up by the nonpartisan <em>Cook Political Report. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <em>Washington Examiner <\/em>contacted a spokesperson for Sykes for comment. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans aim to sway non-participating 2022 midterm voters for significant gains in November. With eyes set on flipping pivotal House seats and strengthening their narrow majority, GOP strategists in Ohio\u2019s 13th Congressional District are strategically engaging with this untapped voting bloc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2640,"featured_media":2244965,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24132590107095-1024x683.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/AP24132590107095-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244964","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\/2640"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2244965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}