Vance Condemns Ohio Newspaper’s Political Cartoon About His Indian American Wife
MIDDLETOWN, Ohio–At a campaign stop in Middletown, the city midway between Cincinnati and Dayton where he grew up, JD Vance paused for a moment when an audience member asked him a question about a subject that is touchy for the Republican U.S. Senate candidate.
“Somebody sent this to me a couple of days ago,” Vance said as he scrolled through his phone at the Oct. 19 event. “This is a cartoon that ran in the Cleveland Plain Dealer … and here it is. It’s me and Tim Ryan on the debate stage together. He’s wearing a Cleveland Guardians jersey, and I’m wearing the San Francisco Giants jersey, which [is] kind of funny, right?…