Derek Myers, who until this Tuesday was a Republican candidate for Congress in Ohio’s 2nd Congressional District, accidentally sent out a concession message hours before the polls even closed… although he later lost by large margins in the crowded GOP primary, finishing last.
Myers ultimately received about one and a half percent of the vote, with over 100,000 votes cast. He is a supporter of former President Donald Trump, whose favored candidate in Ohio’s GOP primary for Senate ultimately eked out a win on Tuesday, setting up a face-off later this year with incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D). Ohio has leaned heavily Republican in recent elections, with Trump victories in both the 2016 and 2020 presidential races, but polling conducted ahead of Trump-endorsed Bernie Moreno officially getting his party’s Senate nod showed the new Republican nominee way behind.
The concession video from Myers shares a stance on the general elections to be held later this year as well. “I’m looking forward to uniting behind him and working with him to get President Trump re-elected to the White House in November and evicting Joe Biden,” Myers said, referring to his GOP primary’s eventual winner. The district leans heavily Republican, so that victor, Dave Taylor, is likely to be entering Congress soon.
Another round of presidential primaries were also held Tuesday, though the match-up between the two major political parties is effectively set, with both Donald Trump and Joe Biden already securing the intraparty support necessary to formally secure their respective parties’ already expected presidential nominations later this year. Polling on the anticipated rematch is mixed. Though Trump leads in some national surveys, his leading margins are largely minuscule, eroding the possibilities for drawing any kind of sweeping conclusion from the data and challenging Trump’s predictable assertions that he’s actually leading massively. And Biden leads in some polling as well.
