John,
You may have seen the billboards we put up in rural counties in Wisconsin targeting Republican Ron Johnson. Now, we’re heading to another key Senate battleground: Ohio.
All the recent polling we’ve seen is showing that Ohio is in play. Despite J.D. Vance getting Trump’s endorsement, he’s not that popular among Ohio Republicans. And his Democratic opponent, Rep. Tim Ryan, enjoys high name ID and stronger favorability ratings among Ohio voters.
J.D. Vance built his entire career on exploiting the hillbilly archetype, having grown up in Middleton, Ohio, and spending summers in Breathitt County, Kentucky. But he’s no hillbilly. In fact, Vance worked for a law firm that lobbied on behalf of Purdue Pharma, the company widely blamed for exacerbating the opioid crisis.
It gets worse, John. J.D. Vance created a fake non-profit organization “Our Ohio Renewal” to supposedly address Ohio’s ongoing opioid crisis. Yet the records show that the nonprofit spent $0 on charitable activities or grants related to the addiction and recovery efforts.
It was all a scam.
That’s why we are excited to announce we are launching the #NotYourHillbilly campaign in Ohio with our partners RuralOrganizing.org.
We’re going to recruit local rural voices to get out the message about who J.D. Vance really is. We’re going to create high visibility campaigns utilizing billboards and digital advertising. And we’re going to be hosting weekly phone banks to get the message out to voters about the real J.D. Vance. More on that later!
Mitch McConnell just announced his superPAC is spending $28 million in Ohio, so we’re going to have to up our game to make sure we can defeat J.D. Vance.
Chip in $10 to help us flip the key Senate battleground of Ohio. With strong grassroots support, we can make inroads with rural voters and flip red seats to blue.
Let’s do this!
Team Rural Vote
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