April 15, 2022: Ohio Republicans team up to stop Vance endorsement

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🗓️ 15 April 2022

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With Ohio’s May 3 Senate GOP primary barely two weeks away and no clear frontrunner, J.D. Vance's rivals are mounting an all-out effort to head off a potential endorsement from former President Donald Trump, per our colleagues Natalie Allison, Meridith McGraw, Alex Isenstadt and Daniel Lippman. Trump seems intent on picking a horse in all the big GOP primaries. But several candidates are bunched together in polling in Ohio, making this one a real roll of the dice. Listen to Playbook Deep Dive: Biden’s pollster on the recipe for how to ‘not get our a---- kicked’ in the midterms Raghu Manavalan is the Host of POLITICO's Playbook.Jenny Ament is the Executive Producer of POLITICO Audio.

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0:00.0	Presented by Facebook.
0:03.1	Hey, good morning, playbookers on Rookumunovalin. It's Friday.
0:07.2	Today's show will former President Donald Trump back J.D. Vaines in Ohio.
0:11.7	It's your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.
0:18.3	President Joe Biden suggested Thursday that he was, quote, ready to go to Ukraine, but he's not
0:23.6	actually going.
0:25.0	Press Secretary Jensaki said Thursday night at a live taping of Pod Save America at the anthem,
0:29.9	quote, he's ready for anything.
0:31.8	The man likes fast cars and aviators.
0:34.1	He's ready to go to Ukraine.
0:35.6	We are not sending the president to Ukraine. Another bit of
0:38.7	news from Saki's appearance came on the topic of the student loan moratorium. Between now and August
0:44.2	31st, it's either going to be extended or we're going to make a decision, as Ron Clayne referenced,
0:49.5	about canceling student debt. With Ohio's May 3rd Senate GOP primary barely two weeks away and no clear frontrunner,
0:57.6	J.D. Vance's rivals are mounting an all-out effort to head off a potential Trump endorsement.
1:02.2	Per Politico's Natalie Allison, Meredith McGrath, Alex Eisenstadt, and Daniel Lipman.
1:07.2	Quote, Trump has so far stayed out of the primary, even as early voting has already begun
1:11.7	ahead of the May 3rd election.
1:13.5	But his endorsement could dramatically shift the margins in the crowded field of candidates
1:17.5	where no one in the five-ray race has taken a commanding lead.
1:21.0	With an eye toward influencing Trump's inner circle on Thursday morning, Rummington Research,
1:25.2	a polling firm connected to former straight treasurer Josh Mandel's campaign, began circulating to top Republicans a polling memo, arguing that a
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