Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has signed a measure to ensure President Joe Biden will appear on the state ballot in November.

DeWine, a Republican, signed the measure — which relaxes a state candidate filing deadline — Sunday along with a related bill that imposes a ban on foreign nationals contributing to state ballot campaigns. Both will take effect Aug. 31.

The Republican-dominated Legislature had approved the two measures last week during a rare special session. The contribution ban had been demanded by the Senate, which approved the measures Friday, a day after the House passed them.

  • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
    38·
    2 years ago

    Yep. That’s what we get in a post-Trump world. If we were back in the 2010s, any governor helping the sitting POTUS/a major party presumptive nominee fix what amounts to a scheduling issue would be non-news.

    • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
      6·
      2 years ago

      I don’t think a Republican governor helping Obama’s reelection campaign in 2012 would have been quietly accepted.

      • elliot_crane@lemmy.world
        10·
        2 years ago

        There would have been a vocal minority on the right wing pissing and moaning about it on fox, but I don’t think the expectation would be that this hypothetical governor would deliberately obstruct.

        • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 years ago

          Yeah I was referring to the hemming and hawing from the sidelines, especially from the birther crowd in Congress and right-wing media.

        • Baron Von J@lemmy.world
          2·
          2 years ago

          Right, but the fact that it was noteworthy in the news cycle then that McCain had that level of decorum against his own voting base is what I was speaking to. DeWine came out with tact and decorum to handle this non-issue, too. Voters back then were hanging and burning Obama in effigy.