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FIRST ON FOX: Jane Timken is taking aim at President Biden over border security as part of her statewide ad blitz in her bid for the Republican Senate nomination in Ohio’s crowded and competitive GOP primary.
“Under Joe Biden, illegal immigrants and drug cartels are flooding Ohio with heroin and fentanyl. Now opioid deaths are surging again,” the former Ohio GOP chair charges in the ad, which was shared first with Fox News on Tuesday. “I’m Jane Timken, and I know border security is national security.”
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Border security is top of mind with Republican voters in Ohio and across the country, and Timken’s new spot, which was recorded as she stood at the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, is the latest in the primary showdown to spotlight the issue.
Timken’s team says the spot will run on broadcast and cable TV in the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton and Youngstown markets as part of her campaign’s ongoing seven-figure ad buy.
Timken, whose husband is the former chairman, CEO and president of his family’s steel manufacturing corporation, is one of eight candidates in the GOP primary race to succeed retiring GOP Sen. Rob Portman, who’s endorsed Timken.
The other major Republican candidates in the race are 2018 Ohio GOP Senate candidate Mike Gibbons, a Cleveland entrepreneur, real estate developer and investment banker; former Ohio treasurer and former two-time Senate candidate Josh Mandel; venture capitalist and best-selling author J.D. Vance; and state Sen. Matt Dolan, a former county and state prosecutor whose family owns Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians.
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Other than Dolan, the other major contenders have been showcasing their support for former President Trump, who remains the most popular and influential politician in the GOP as he plays a kingmaker’s role in…
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