Tim Ryan on 10 Issues

[Ohiogal]

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Tim Ryan, who is best known outside Ohio for mounting a Democratic leadership challenge to Nancy Pelosi after his party lost the White House to Donald Trump, this week joined a crowded field of Democratic presidential aspirants who hope to take on Trump in 2020.

Selling himself as a progressive with working class roots who can win back the voters of Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania who were key to Trump’s victory in 2016, the 45-year-old Ryan is positioning himself as a fresh face with new ideas to fix a broken system.

Since 2003, Ryan has represented a safely Democratic district that includes parts of Summit, Portage, Mahoning, Trumbull and Stark counties. Over the years, he has flirted with bids for higher office whenever no Democratic incumbents were running for re-election for Ohio’s gubernatorial or U.S. Senate jobs. Now, he’s decided to seek the highest office in the land.

Here’s a look at his record and some of the issues he’s likely to campaign on in Iowa, New Hampshire and other early presidential primary states.

https://www.cleveland.com/open/2019/04/rep-tim-ryan-on-10-issues-where-the-newly-minted-presidential-candidate-stands.html

[rogue emissary]

1. Another guy that couldn't figure out the NRA is a scam.

Ryan, who once had an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association, announced in 2017 that he’d donate the roughly $20,000 its political action committee gave him over the years to gun safety organizations. Although he enjoys hunting and shooting and says he has no interest in taking guns away from law-abiding citizens, Ryan says he soured on the NRA when it opposed universal background checks after the 2012 Sandy Hook shooting.

[Demsrule86]

2. Ryan can beat Trump . He is my second choice.

[rogue emissary]

4. As long as the Russia interference is combated.

Most of the Democratic candidates could beat Donny.

Universal background checks doesn't address my criticism of someone that not only got an A rating but took money from the NRA.

[Demsrule86]

5. That is not true

Biden, Ryan and Maybe Beto can win the rustbelt and stop Trump from winning the same way he did last time.

[Demsrule86]

6. Trump could win....don't think otherwise.

[rogue emissary]

7. He won by no more than 70,000 votes and the EC.

The rust belt isn't the be all end all to a presidential win.

Also, why do you feel only those men could win the belt?

[Demsrule86]

3. And he is for universal checks.