Democrats have an opening to defend a key Senate seat and even make gains at the presidential level in Ohio, the Buckeye State’s former congressman Tim Ryan said this week.
Mr Ryan spoke to The Independent ahead of an event Tuesday evening hosted by the Vanderbilt Project on Unity and American Democracy, and described the state of politics across Ohio’s suburban and rural areas. Mr Ryan said Ohioans were experiencing just the latest example of Washington’s disinterest in the American heartland with the derailment of a Norfolk Southern train carrying dangerous chemicals in East Palestine. Politicians in Washington have traded blows over years-old deregulation of the freight rail industry while residents in Ohio are worried about long-term health effects.
