Pro-Impeachment Senate Candidate Jane Timken Desperately Hoping Voters Forget Her Record
The former Ohio GOP chair turned US Senate candidate has tried to brand herself as an America First conservative despite her comments in support of impeachment and concerning close ties to never-Trump moderates John Kasich and Mike DeWine.
Over the past year, Jane Timken has spent millions of dollars from the Timken fortune in advertising while trying to establish herself as a grassroots, pro-Trump candidate in the race for Ohio’s open US Senate seat.
Despite the million-dollar ad buys, Timken has still failed to register above mid-single digits in the polls since she was loudly booed at President Trump’s Ohio rally last summer.
While Timken has struggled to make in-roads with the Trump-base, she has managed to unite virtually the entire Kasich/DeWine establishment behind her candidacy, likely due to her support of disgraced Congressman Anthony Gonzalez’s vote to impeach President Trump nearly one year ago and her continued support for pro-lockdown and anti-Second Amendment Governor Mike DeWine.
DeWine has drawn the ire of conservatives for his aggressive COVID lockdown of Ohio and his early pushback against President Trump’s claim of election irregularities. DeWine was even among the first elected Republicans to congratulate Joe Biden following the controversial 2020 Election.
While Timken is the clear favorite of the Kasich/DeWine establishment in Ohio, voters remain unconvinced by Timken’s convenient pivot to self-proclaimed “America First” candidate. The political figurehead had said she was “agnostic” on Trump while she was “obviously” supporting Never-Trump Governor John Kasich in 2016.
Timken’s support for President Trump has been inconsistent at best in the days since her preferred candidate, John Kasich, left Donald Trump’s Republican Party. Although Jane and her husband Tim Timken are well-known Republican mega-donors, the couple failed to financially support President Trump until June of 2018.
As recently as 2021, Timken was guilty of what was described as a “jaw-dropping flip-flop” regarding Congressman Anthony Gonzalez’s impeachment vote, which she had initially described as “rational” shortly before launching her Senate campaign.
Timken had said “I don’t know,” when asked by Cleveland.com how she would have voted on impeachment, a position that put her at odds with the vast majority of Republicans in Ohio and across America.
Timken has attempted to distract voters from her impeachment comments by embarking on a statewide tour where she bizarrely takes credit for President Trump’s record-shattering 2020 victory in Ohio.
Donald J. Trump was the first candidate in Ohio’s history to earn more than 3,000,000 votes, though most political observers would attribute that more to President Trump’s strong record of reviving Ohio’s manufacturing economy and not Jane Timken.
As the race to replace retiring Senator Rob Portman heats up, Ohio conservatives will be forced to judge if Jane Timken’s transition from pro-impeachment mega-donor to self-proclaimed pro-Trump conservative is genuine or just another ploy by the establishment to fool the Republican base.
Do you think Jane Timken is an establishment wolf in sheep’s clothing? Can a candidate have supported impeaching President Trump and still claim to be “America First?” Let us know below!