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US Midterms: J.D. Vance and Tim Ryan Clash in Ohio Senate Debate

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    OCT 2022
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    story last updated OCT 2022

    The Spin

    Republican narrative

    Ryan is blatantly misrepresenting himself and his politics. Despite a constructed and rhetorical effort to appeal to the Trump voters and supporters of the Ohio electorate, he has contradicted himself by saying he wants to "kill and confront" the MAGA movement. He isn't a bipartisan unifier but a career politician peddling a false narrative about the "extremism" of policies that are largely supported in the area he seeks to represent.

    Breitbart

    Democratic narrative

    Monday's debate saw Vance fail to take accountability for the consequences of his own political agenda and fuel division by vilifying moderate Democratic policy. Rather than recognize that the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade — one of the largest governmental overreaches in living memory — has resulted in a widespread loss of bodily autonomy and increased risk for women, he blamed immigration. Ryan is right: Ohioans are tired of this empty rhetoric and want to return to a more moderate policy.

    NBC

    Cynical narrative

    Both Democrats and Republicans are playing politics in an attempt to secure reelection. A reductive and oversimplified "us vs. them" mentality has come to dominate how Americans view themselves and each other. This is an unsustainable state of affairs that can only undermine democracy and, eventually, result in a social breakdown. The US must work to look beyond the short-termism incentivized by western democratic models to find common superordinate goals to depolarize politics.

    New Yorker

    Metaculus Prediction


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