At Monday night’s Ohio Senate debate, Tim Ryan portrayed his opponent as an extremist and opportunist, who lacks personal integrity.
from Ryan’s campaign. In an attack ad released earlier this year, Ryan accused Vance’s nonprofit of doing almost nothing to help addiction programs while directing some of its funding to pay an executive director who moonlights as a Vance political adviser. “I didn’t start a fake nonprofit pretending like I was going to help people with addiction like J.D. Vance did,” the Ohio representative said of Vance.
“You started a nonprofit to try to take advantage of people in Ohio,” Ryan capped off. “And you know what, all you did with it was launch your political career.” Vance responded by saying, “None of this is true, of course.” Ryan further portrayed Vance as a carpetbagger “from Silicon Valley” who is in part being ventriloquized by
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