Home Speaker Mike Johnson has endorsed Ohio District 9 Congressional Candidate State Rep. Derek Merrin, operating towards JR Majewski, for US Congress in a transfer that won’t shock many.
I’m honored to have the assist of Speaker @MikeJohnson. We’ll develop the Republican majority with NW Ohio delivering a mandate to uphold the Structure, Steadiness the Funds, Safe our Border, Shield the US Greenback from additional devaluation & enact congressional term-limits.… pic.twitter.com/MhM64u9G6F
— Derek Merrin (@DerekMerrin) January 25, 2024
Mike Johnson has had quite a few different letdowns as speaker of the Home:
- The Southern border stays vast open.
- Laws to reform FISA Part 702 and cease the FBI’s warrantless spying on harmless Individuals was blocked by Johnson.
- Johnson introduced a $1.590 trillion budget for fiscal yr 2024, which funds international wars however leaves America’s borders wideo open and was applauded by Democrat Senate Majority Chief Chuck Schumer.
Politico reports,
Speaker Mike Johnson has endorsed GOP state Rep. Derek Merrin in his bid to oust longtime Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur from her northwest Ohio seat, taking sides in a contentious Republican major.
After a large smear marketing campaign by leftist information shops in 2022 dishonestly focusing on Majewski’s navy service after he was endorsed by President Trump in 2020, “the National Republican Congressional Committee canceled nearly $1 million in advertising promoting Majewski,” reports Daily Caller. The RINOs hung Majewski out to dry in 2022 based mostly on bogus fake news tales about his service in Afghanistan and prompted him to lose the overall election.
Craig Riedel isn’t the one candidate within the race with a questionable background.
The Gateway Pundit reported on Craig Riedel’s demise as a candidate when he outed himself as a never-Trumper.
Riedel mentioned in a recorded telephone name, “I don’t like the way [Trump] communicates… I don’t like the way he calls people names,” a typical butthurt leftist and RINO speaking level. “I like Ron,” Riedel added.
Johnson-endorsed Derek Merrin has additionally had his justifiable share of embarrassment attributable to his ties and a photograph with former Ohio State Senator Wes Goodman, who was outed as a closeted homosexual adulterer.
NBC reported in 2017,
As Wes Goodman constructed a political profession round values together with “committed natural marriage,” the 33-year-old Republican was secretly partaking in sexual encounters with males on-line, through cellphone and, on one vital event, in his state workplace.
The workplace encounter was the ultimate straw that final week ended his political rise as a self-proclaimed Christian conservative, which had taken Goodman from congressional marketing campaign employee to Capitol Hill aide to a seat within the Ohio Home.
It additionally opened the floodgates on particulars of Goodman’s secret homosexual life, which turned out to not have been a secret to a number of conservative teams, Home Republicans or their marketing campaign operation.
There was hypothesis by many, apparently together with Republican peers, that Merrin was Goodman’s lover at one level.
It’s additional rumored that Merrin has employed Axiom Methods, based by Ron DeSantis backer Jeff Roe, for marketing campaign consulting.
Alan Jacoby, host of America First LIVE on LFATV and CEO/Founding father of The Patriot Cigar Company, revealed a video of X, the place Merrin was confronted by an impartial journalist on the potential of getting a relationship with Goodman. Jacoby additionally referred to as Merrin a “Trump & MAGA Hating adulterer.”
Conservative podcast host Joey Mannarino shared related sentiments, commenting,
Institution leaders would slightly run a candidate accused by his friends of getting an adulterous affair as an alternative of supporting the candidate chosen by the folks… whose navy file they helped tarnish.
Institution leaders would slightly run a candidate accused by his friends of getting an adulterous affair as an alternative of supporting the candidate chosen by the folks… whose navy file they helped tarnish.
I stand with @JRMajewski! https://t.co/HkGSnq5BeW
— Joey Mannarino (@JoeyMannarinoUS) January 25, 2024
In the meantime, JR Majewski has been endorsed by Trump Division of Protection Chief of Workers/Deputy Director of Nationwide Intelligence Kash Patel, Trump Director of Nationwide Intelligence Ric Grenell, Rep. Cory Mills (R-FL), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Senator JD Vance (R-OH), Rep. Eli Crane (R-AZ), and Rep. Bob Good (R-VA).
Majewski mentioned his race and uphill battle towards the RINOs in an exclusive interview with The Gateway Pundit earlier this month.
When Merrin, Riedel, and Majewski had been requested at a current candidate discussion board who they might align with most in Congress, Majewski was the one candidate to say he would align with Trump.
Riedel mentioned “Jim Jordan,” Derek Merrin mentioned “the Constitution,” and Majewski mentioned “DONALD TRUMP.”
“He’s the guy that’s going to bring the country back to what it was before the election was stolen,” Majewski added.
Watch beneath:
Tonight at an #OH09 candidates discussion board the GOP candidates had been requested a definite query: Who would we align with as freshman members of Congress?
Our solutions are telling.
(I sped up the video as a result of they’re boring institution speaking factors) pic.twitter.com/fAPYeqS6vm— JR Majewski (@JRMajewski) January 25, 2024
