If so, I have a vision of him in workaday apparel tagging along at Trump's side across Ohio, just as the senator did in 2012 with Mitt Romney. Who knows in this crazy crowd whether Portman might be thinking veep, although you have to wonder whether Trump would want anybody so meek and mild sharing the center ring with him.
But you must also wonder why Portman committed himself so early to any choice.
He's facing a tough challenge from ex-Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland in the 2016 Senate race even though the Koch Brothers have claimed the senator's obedience to their causes by chipping in $1.4 million for an early media blitz.
It's Ohio, I know, a swing state, if not swinging state, where GOP candidates take no chances in the Big Picture.
Remember that Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine jumped ship on Romney in 2012 in mid-campaign and endorsed Rick Santorum. The AG decided Rick was going to win, a thought that Summit County Republican Chairman Alex Arshinkoff probably shared with him while inviting Santorum to be the star of a big county Republican fundraiser. The chairman even staged his poll of the feeders at the event and boasted that Santorum had virtually run the table.
P.S. As long as we've mentioned the Republican-style Summit fund-raisers, one even hosted Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Ultra Conservative U.
S. House Freedom Caucus. Keep in mind that Jordan is now threatening to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood.
He's facing a tough challenge from ex-Democratic Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland in the 2016 Senate race even though the Koch Brothers have claimed the senator's obedience to their causes by chipping in $1.4 million for an early media blitz.
It's Ohio, I know, a swing state, if not swinging state, where GOP candidates take no chances in the Big Picture.
Remember that Atty. Gen. Mike DeWine jumped ship on Romney in 2012 in mid-campaign and endorsed Rick Santorum. The AG decided Rick was going to win, a thought that Summit County Republican Chairman Alex Arshinkoff probably shared with him while inviting Santorum to be the star of a big county Republican fundraiser. The chairman even staged his poll of the feeders at the event and boasted that Santorum had virtually run the table.
P.S. As long as we've mentioned the Republican-style Summit fund-raisers, one even hosted Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, the chairman of the Ultra Conservative U.
S. House Freedom Caucus. Keep in mind that Jordan is now threatening to shut down the government over Planned Parenthood.
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