Ohio Congresswoman Fudge caught between Congressman Tim Ryan's bid for president and his strained relationship with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.... Upset over GM's Lordstown, Ohio plant closing, the Democrat Ryan says he can beat President Trump in Ohio and other pivotal Midwestern states with political pundits waiting to see if Rep. Fudge will endorse him.... Fudge is Black and she supported Ryan via his unsuccessful bid to oust Pelosi as House Minority Speaker in 2016....But unlike Ryan, Fudge supported Pelosi to be Speaker of the House of Representatives this year, after the congresswoman, whose congressional district includes Cleveland, decided against opposing Pelosi for Speaker.....Keep up with news on the presidential election here with us....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black digital newspaper and Black blog
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| U.S. House of Representative Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), a San Francisco Democrat who will keynote the Ohio Democratic Party's annual state dinner next month, US. Rep.Tim Ryan (D-OH), a Youngstown, Ohio area Democrat who this week officially announced a 2020 run for president, and Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), a Warrensville Heights Democrat and former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus whose largely Black congressional district includes Cleveland. Fudge supported Ryan when he sought to oust Pelosi as House Minority Leader in 2016 but backed Pelosi this year for Speaker, after she decided herself not to seek the powerful House Speaker position. Whether Rep. Fudge will endorse Rep Ryan's bid for president remains to be seen. |
By Kathy Wray Coleman, editor-in-chief Coleman is an experienced Black political reporter who covered the 2008 presidential election for the Call and Post Newspaper in Cleveland, Ohio and the presidential elections in 2012 and 2016 at Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com
CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-Washington, D.C. - U.S. Rep Tim Ryan (OH-13), a Youngstown, Ohio area Democrat who challenged Nancy Pelosi in 2016 for House Minority Leader but lost by a 2-to-1 margin, formally announced his 2020 run for president at a rally in Youngstown and appeared Wednesday on ABC's "The View"
A pivotal state for presidential elections, Ryan said Ohio in particular is hurting economically and that he remains upset at the closing late last year of the General Motors plant in Lordstown, an area he represents.
He joined Rep Marcy Kaptur (OH-09), a Toledo Democrat whose 9th congressional district extends to Cleveland and the dean of the Ohio Delegation, and three other congressional colleagues, including Joyce Beatty of Columbus, via a letter sent last year to President Donald Trump formally asking the president to visit the communities impacted by General Motors' decision to close Lordstown, three other U.S. plants and one in Canada
“That’s why I am running for president,” said Ryan on "The View" in highlighting the GM plant closings and the loss of manufacturing jobs in Ohio and across the nation, “It’s time to do something."
The federal lawmaker not only challenged the now Speaker of the House for House Minority leader in 2016, he was also one of 32 congressional Democrats that opposed her nomination to be Speaker this year, though Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat and the first woman to lead a majority party in congress, ran uncontested.
Whether 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, a prior chairwoman of the Congressional Black Caucus, will endorse Ryan's bid for president will be interesting to see, political pundits have said.
Also a former Warrensville Heights, Ohio mayor and former national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Fudge is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio, along with Rep Beatty.
Her largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes the largely Black city of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, is a Democratic stronghold and she can, without a doubt, influence votes, data show.
Lordstown is a village in Northeast Ohio and Trumbull County.
It is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metropolitan statistical area
The Lordstown plant closing quickly became a political football for the presidential election, and across partisan lines in general, U.S. Sens, Sherrod Brown, of Cleveland, and a Democrat, and Rob Portman, a Republican, among those fighting against the plant closings
How his strained relationship with Speaker of the House of Representative Nancy Pelosi, a San Francisco Democratic who rose to Speaker this year after the Democrats reclaimed control of the House via the November midterm elections, will impact his presidential ambitions remains to be seen, Pelosi to keynote the Ohio Democratic Party's state dinner next month in Columbus.
The federal lawmaker not only challenged the now Speaker of the House for House Minority leader in 2016, he was also one of 32 congressional Democrats that opposed her nomination to be Speaker this year, though Pelosi, a San Francisco Democrat and the first woman to lead a majority party in congress, ran uncontested.
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Ohio 11th Congressional District Congresswoman
whose largely Black congressional Marcia L. Fudge (0H-11), a Warrensville Heights Democrat district includes Cleveland |
Also a former Warrensville Heights, Ohio mayor and former national president of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc., Fudge is one of two Blacks in congress from Ohio, along with Rep Beatty.
Fudge supported Ryan when he sought to oust Pelosi as House Minority Leader in 2016 but backed Pelosi this year for Speaker, notwithstanding controversy, and after she decided herself not to seek the powerful House Speaker position
Her largely Black 11th congressional district, which includes the largely Black city of Cleveland and several of its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County, is a Democratic stronghold and she can, without a doubt, influence votes, data show.
Lordstown is a village in Northeast Ohio and Trumbull County.
It is part of the Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA metropolitan statistical area
The Lordstown plant closing quickly became a political football for the presidential election, and across partisan lines in general, U.S. Sens, Sherrod Brown, of Cleveland, and a Democrat, and Rob Portman, a Republican, among those fighting against the plant closings
The GM automaker announced last year that the company would leave transmission plants in Warren and White Marsh, Maryland, and assembly plants in Detroit, Ontario and Lordstown, Ohio “unallocated in 2019.”
Some 14,000 GM workers will either be displaced or will lose their jobs relative to the plant closings, which GM says is part of its global restructuring initiative.
But Lordstown,said Ryan to CNN'S Chris Cuomo, is among many of his campaign platform initiatives, beating president Trump, who has yet to draw a credible challenger for the Republican nomination for president, at the top of his campaign list.
Congressman Ryan says he is in the best position to oust Trump from the White House among the crowded field of Democratic candidates for president, including U.S. Sens Kamala Harris, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, former Texas congressman Beto O'Rourke, who campaigned in Ohio last month and against the closing of the Lordstown plant, and possible contender, former vice president Joe Biden, the front- runner ahead of Sanders.
The congressman said he can win where it counts and in pivotal Midwestern states.
"Coming from the industrial Midwest I believe that I could win Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, and Wisconsin, rebuild that blue wall that president Trump took down," said Ryan, 45, one of the youngest to date to officially announce a 2020 run for president.
The Midwest consists of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.
Trump won Ohio in 2016, no Democrat ever winning the White House without first winning Ohio and no Republican doing so of remembrance,
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