Ohio Senate showdown: JD Vance calls polls a ‘big joke’ and vows he'll have the funds needed to fight Tim Ryan
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Trailing in fundraising and in the polls to Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, Ohio GOP Senate nominee JD Vance says he feels “very confident about where we are.”
"I think the polls frankly are a big joke especially this far out," Vance said Friday in a Fox News interview, before speaking at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Dallas.
Vance pointed to the public opinion polls ahead of the 2016 presidential election that indicated a close contest in the Buckeye State between former President Donald Trump and then-Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton. Ohio, at the time, was a top general election battleground state, but Trump won it by eight points in both his 2016 White House victory and in his 2020 re-election defeat to President Biden, shifting the state from purple to red.