Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan Has A Plan To Win In Trump Country

Rep. Tim Ryan speaks at an Iowa Democratic event during his brief presidential run in 2019. “I want to be rich!” The previous year, Ryan was publicly insisting that corporate tax rates were too high for U.S. corporations to compete in the global economy, even as he affirmed that then-President Donald Trump’s tax plan was a “billionaires-first, trickle-down tax scheme.” Top Democrats, including former President Barack Obama, agreed with Ryan that the then-top corporate tax rate of 35% should go down, but they avoided making similar comments at the time for fear of validating Trump’s message. “We’ve got to work with the business community.” - Rep. Tim Ryan “We’ve got to work with the business community,” he said. “It’s a state that’s going to vote for which candidate they think is going to go to the mat for them on wages, jobs, retirement security.” - Rep. Tim Ryan “Ohio’s an economic state,” Ryan told HuffPost. “They don’t need someone like Tim Ryan who will continue to march in lockstep with these radical, Left-wing policies and cower to their party’s leadership.” Ohio Democrats maintain though that the national party and the Biden campaign essentially wrote Ohio off in the 2020 election cycle, concealing opportunities to build power in the state.