Renacci only ahead by eight in an internal means that DeWins is still in the game. I still expect him to go down though.
I expect DeWine to gain from this point on. Anger of DeWine being strict about COVID/not aligning with Trump probably has peaked and is going down.
No it hasn’t. If anything, it has actually gotten a lot worse. I doubt Renacci is up by this much, but DeWine is in serious trouble. There are impeach DeWine signs all of the place once you get north of Delaware County. In some of the rural counties, most of the countywide elected officials are either staying neutral or endorsing Joe Blystone.
Speaking of Blystone, he has signs all over the place in some of the more rural counties to the point that I thought he had about a 40% chance of upsetting DeWine. Renacci is pretty invisible in at least some of the rural counties where DeWine is the most unpopular, so I am kinda surprised he’s the one surging.
Then again, Blystone is a nutjob who looks like he came from an Amish version of Duck Dynasty, so I guess I buy the anti-DeWine vote consolidating around Renacci. That said, either Renacci or Blystone could easily spoil the race for the other.
In any case, rural Republicans seem to hate DeWine’s guts and if the situation is like this in Appalachia and places like Mercer/Preble Counties, then DeWine may simply be f***ed no matter what he does. He’s on track to get absolutely Blanched in the rural counties around Marion, at the very least.
