Ohio GOP Senate battle: Timken showcases her fight against critical race theory
Fox News
Jane Timken goes up with a new ad in Ohio's Senate GOP primary that targets critical race theory in the wake of Glenn Youngkin’s education-fueled Virginia governor's victory
The release of the spot comes two days after Republican Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial election victory over former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, where the GOP hadn’t won statewide in a dozen years. Youngkin’s victory – and the major gains he made with suburban voters who fled the Republican Party during the 2018 and 2020 elections – was fueled in part by his tapping into the anger of parents over decisions by their local school boards.
Youngkin also took aim at critical race theory to energize Republican base voters. Critical race theory, once an obscure, decades-old academic theory, has become a catchall by conservatives to describe the teaching of America's long history of race relations and racism.