Republican Derek Merrin will face longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur in November for Ohio’s 9th District.
endorsement on the eve of the election, won the primary for Ohio’s 9th Congressional District on Tuesday. He will now compete against Rep. Marcy Kaptur , who has represented the Toledo area since 1983.
Merrin entered at a volatile time in the race. J.R. Majewski, the scandal-plagued Trump loyalist, had become a loose cannon who forced months of speculation about whether he would run after losing a 2022 bid against Kaptur by 13 points.twice in the span of a year, finally agreeing to stay out for good two weeks before the Tuesday primary.
Merrin will have a bigger challenge in toppling Kaptur, whose brand of economic populism has won her 21 terms in the quintessentially Rust Belt district.
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