Marcy Kaptur, a Veteran Democrat, Breaks with Biden in New TV Ad

[brooklynite]

New York Times

Representative Marcy Kaptur of Ohio, the second-most tenured woman in congressional history, has released a new television ad explicitly breaking with President Biden, the most prominent Democrat to do so, as she seeks re-election in a Toledo-area seat that was redrawn to be sharply more Republican.

Ms. Kaptur, who was first elected in 1982, criticized Mr. Biden in the ad over “letting Ohio solar manufacturers be undercut by China” and ended it with an attempt to cast her identity as independent from his.

“Marcy Kaptur: She doesn’t work for Joe Biden; she works for you,” the ad concludes. “I’m Marcy Kaptur and I approve this message.”

The remapping of districts in Ohio made Ms. Kaptur’s seat substantially more red this year by taking away parts of the Cleveland suburbs and exchanging them for a western swath of the state that reaches toward the Indiana border. The result turned the district from one that Mr. Biden easily won in 2020 to one that former President Donald J. Trump would have carried that year.

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[Elessar Zappa]

1. If it helps her win, fine.

[JohnSJ]

3. +++. And it isn't a particular brash disagreement like some who compared President Biden to a

bowl of ****. That was not appropriate, and wrong

[PdamnedQ]

6. +1

[relayerbob]

2. What's her voting record?

[bottomofthehill]

9. Her voting record is basically the exact same as Adam Schiff

The only real exception in last 1000 votes they have cast is on the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement Implementation Act. She sees it as exporting American jobs. Looks very electable to me, but in a redder new district designed to remove her from congress, I hope she picks the fights she needs to hold the seat.

[relayerbob]

11. Thanks

In this case, I'm going to give her a pass to do whatever she needs to win,

[SharonClark]

4. That nonsense plays right into the GQP playbook and is insulting to the party.

She's 76 and has been in Congress since 1982. If she can't run on her exemplary record then she should retire.

[BannonsLiver]

13. Nah

To paraphrase former Raiders owner Al Davis: “Just win, baby.”

Winning is all that matters. Everything else is just noise.

[Kid Berwyn]

5. Yeah! She's so old, she believes in campaign finance reform!

https://kaptur.house.gov/issues/campaign-finance-reform

[Wounded Bear]

7. Meh, have a local Dem doing something similar...

Not my rep, but Rep Schrier from the adjacent district. Her district looks to be a bit redder than last time after the last redistricting. She should be OK, but in her ads she points out how she "went against the Biden administration" on the gas tax relief idea. Pretty tame, actually, but if she holds onto some centrist votes with it, I don't really care. She was the first Dem to win that district since it was first formed many years ago, would be a shame if she lost, really.

She's really strong on women's rights and pro-choice and abortion rights. She should be, she's a doctor.

[Raven123]

8. With Oho's redistricting who knows what she's facing

[FrankBooth]

10. I doubt Joe cares much if it helps her win

Kim Schrier is doing something similar in ads in the PNW, playing to the rubes in her very purple district. If it helps her hang onto her seat, which had never elected a Democrat until she (Schrier) won in 2018, then it's the smart play.

Edit: Just noticed Wounded Bear said same thing as me, apologies for missing that before I posted.

[BannonsLiver]

14. Whatever they have to do to win.

The only thing that matters in our politics now is keeping the crazies out.

[rustbeltvoice]

12. Ohio's gerrymanders by Repukes has been severe.

She is from Toledo. The last gerrymander she and Kucinich (Cleveland west side) were thrown into the same district, which hugged the shore of Lake Erie. That was done to eliminate Kucinich. A really ridiculously shaped district guaranteed Gym jacket off Jordan his seat. Tim Ryan is running for senate, and he has bad mouthed the Democratic Party to keep his seat, and now to win the senate.

Ohio has always been a Repuke Party advantage, but often Democrats won. The dirty tricks of the last 18 years has made it a southern state. The state capital is totally in the hands of Repukes, their financial contributors/owners, criminals, and wackos. But yet, Ohio may have two Democratic senators in DC in January.