Joe Biden is traveling to Ohio to give a speech touting his Administration’s “accomplishments,” but Democratic Senate candidate Tim Ryan will be hundreds of miles away in hiding.
Ryan may want to put physical and political distance between himself and Biden to protect his campaign prospects, but he can’t run from his record shilling for Biden. It’s just another example of Ryan acting one way in Washington – voting with Joe Biden 100% of the time – and telling Ohioans a completely different story:
- VIDEO: Ryan in 2019: “I love Joe Biden.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on the Van Jones Show, 5/4/19, Video Begins at 2:40)
- VIDEO: In 2019, Ryan agreed that he and Joe Biden are “cut from the same cloth,” and added, “I’ve got a tremendous amount of respect for him and just love the guy…” (Tim Ryan, WKYC Channel 3’s Let’s Be Clear, 4/22/19, Video Begins at 19:11)
- VIDEO: Ryan: “I’m with Joe Biden.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on CSPAN’s Washington Journal, 3/6/20, Video Begins at 12:02)
- VIDEO: In a 2021 speech in Columbus, Biden praised Ryan, saying, “if I’ve got to be in a foxhole he’s the guy I want to be with.” (President Joe Biden, Remarks in Columbus, OH, 3/23/21, Video Begins at 9:39)
- Ryan on Biden: “I’m all on board.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on CNN, 3/4/20, Transcript)
- In 2021, Ryan praised Biden’s economic agenda, saying, “I’m proud of what he`s doing. I’m going to support what’s happening here and I think it’s going to make a dramatic different,” and that “President Biden is delivering on the promise that he made.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on MSNBC, 4/5/21, Transcript)
- In March 2021, when asked what Democrats should do after passing the $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan, Ryan said to “Double down…” (Kevin Robillard, “‘Double Down’: Swing-District Democrats Embrace Biden Agenda,” Huffington Post, 3/28/21)
- In 2020, Ryan said, “we`ve got to have an agenda with Joe Biden at the top of the ticket … it`s going to be his agenda that we`re all going to be working towards.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on MSNBC, 11/10/20, Transcript)
- VIDEO: In November 2019, Ryan endorsed Biden for president, saying that Biden has “touch with blue collar workers.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe 11/13/19, Video Begins at 1:15)
- VIDEO: Ryan said Biden has a “connection to the working-class people of this country.” (Tim Ryan, Interview on MSNBC’s Morning Joe 11/13/19, Video Begins at 2:15)
- VIDEO: Ryan said Biden “understands a district like mine…” (Tim Ryan, Interview on CSPAN’s Washington Journal, 3/6/20, Video Begins at 12:24)
“Tim Ryan hopes Ohioans contract political amnesia to forget about his years campaigning for Joe Biden, who he ‘love[s],’ is ‘proud of,’ and is ‘all on board’ with. Now that Biden’s mismanagement has wrecked our economy and caused prices to skyrocket, it’s textbook Tim Ryan that he’s turned tail and hiding from the consequences of his support for the Biden agenda. Ohioans won’t forget.” -SLF Communications Director Jack Pandol