Derek Merrin is competing Tuesday for the GOP nomination to take on Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur for Ohio's 9th Congressional District.
He pitches himself as a “rock solid conservative” who would help stop the “invasion” of illegal immigrants at the southern border.
The race will be the most difficult of Kaptur’s career — her comfortably blue district has been redrawn to favor a Republican — but she is a formidable candidate who presents herself as a voice for Rust Belt voters increasingly overlooked by the Democratic Party. Co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, Rep. Marcy Kaptur , speaks Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023, at a news conference about the war in Ukraine, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
He left elected office for a time to invest in the real estate market but, now a 30-something in the statehouse, sees himself as part of a “new generation of leadership” that would bring a different voice to Washington. “It’s been a major concern. I mean, Craig Riedel has been basically campaigning for Congress for three years, and I’ve had 60 days to catch up,” he said.
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