Ohio’s status as a swing state was in question before the midterms after safely voting Republican the last two general cycles. Democrat Tim Ryan is trying to change that against Republican J.D. Vance in the race for retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman’s seat.
Ohio’s District 8 House race isn’t as close.
“It shouldn’t be a really big night for Republicans, not just here in our district, but around the state,” Republican Rep. Warren Davidson said.
He believes if the red wave does happen in the House and the Senate, Republicans will be intentional about solving the country’s biggest problems.
“We’ll be pretty aggressive in the house will be get very aggressive on oversight. And I think that’ll push the some of the media cycle, but also hopefully push the executive branch to do what they’re supposed to do by highlighting some of the failures,” Davidson said.
When it comes to the race between Ryan and Vance, Davidson said Democrat Ryan may have a chance, but only because he campaigned like a Republican.
“He ran a campaign as if he was there with me and my friends supporting Donald Trump, fighting to secure the border, fighting to fix our trade policies. It would be great to see Democrats be able to campaign on that in a sort of way, the level of division in the country would be much smaller,” Davidson said.