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| Ohio governor demands Republicans get Biden and Trump on the ballot. |
Ohio governor is calling a special session of the statehouse after Republicans refused to place President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the general election ballot. It has become clear that the Republican Party is doing all it can to stop Biden.
Biden is being challenged by the left for not doing enough to stop Israel from its genocide.
The president is being challenged from the right over conspiracy theories about his son Hunter Biden, his age, his stuttering, the Russian operative Tara Reade accusing him of sexual assault, his handling of the economy, his handling of the Israel genocide and just their plain hatred of him.
The state of Ohio is not in play.
Donald J. Trump will likely carry Ohio in the general election. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is facing Bernie Moreno in the general election. It is a toss up. Brown voted to ban TikTok if the company can't find an American investor. Moreno supports an abortion ban nationwide and supports the former president Donald J. Trump's false belief of the 2020 election being stolen.
Colorado, Maine and Illinois had Trump disqualified from the primary ballot and his campaign fast tracked it to the Supreme Court. The states believe Trump's role in the insurrection is a violation of the U.S. Constitution.
They had the legal right to reject an insurrectionist. The Supreme Court made it clear that Congress had the right to disqualify candidates. However, it did not make a broad impact on Trump in the primaries. He won despite not attending any Republican presidential candidate debates or even following the rules. He forced Ronna McDaniel out because of that.
DeWine on Thursday called a special session for the state's Legislature to get President Joe Biden on the ballot this November, saying his patience has "run out" with his fellow Republicans who appear less than inclined to offer a legislative fix for a timing problem with the Democratic convention.
“The Legislature had [a] session yesterday and again failed to take any action. This is simply unacceptable,” DeWine said in remarks to the press. “Ohio is running out of time to get Joe Biden, the sitting president of the United States, on the ballot this fall. Failing to do so is simply not acceptable. This is a ridiculous — this is an absurd situation.”
“The purpose of this session will be for the General Assembly to pass legislation ensuring that both major presidential candidates will be on the Ohio ballot in November, as well as legislation that would prohibit campaign spending by foreign nationals,” DeWine said.
NBC News has reached out to the Biden campaign for comment on DeWine's remarks.
The late date of this year's Democratic convention, at which Democrats are set to certify Biden as their nominee, comes after Ohio's statutory deadline to certify presidential candidates for its November ballot. In the past, such issues have been handled with quick legislative fixes, but a number of Republican legislators have balked this year.
DeWine has been at odds with the GOP-dominated state Legislature in the past. In 2021, lawmakers voted to limit his authority to issue public health orders. By votes of 23-10 in the Senate and 62-35 in the House, legislators overturned his veto of a bill that aimed to give them more power to reject his moves. The override set up a power struggle with DeWine, who had mandated masks and balanced other social distancing regulations against the reopening of schools and businesses.
Ohio Democratic Party Chair Elizabeth Walters blasted "corrupt GOP politicians" in a statement after DeWine's announcement.
"Meanwhile, Republican politicians who hold supermajorities in both chambers at the statehouse must put politics aside and pass a clean bill to put Joe Biden on the ballot," Walters said. "Despite Republicans’ political gamesmanship, we’re confident Joe Biden will be on the Ohio ballot.”
Across the aisle, Ohio Republican Party Chairman Alex M. Triantafilou agreed with DeWine's decision to call a special session, "although we are confident that Donald Trump will win decisively."
Ohio used to be considered a vital swing state, but it has trended to the right in recent elections.
In 2020, then-President Donald Trump won the state with about 53.3% of the vote, compared to Biden's 45.2%. Four years earlier, Trump won with 51.8% to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 43.7%. President Barack Obama won the state in 2012, marking the last time a Democratic presidential nominee has won Ohio.
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