U.S. Senator from Ohio

Tim Ryan

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J.D. Vance

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Tim Ryan

1. December 2022 · action

   From January 2003 to December 2022, missed 640 of 13,263 roll call votes, a 4.8 percent rate GovTrack noted was much worse than the 2.0 percent median among representatives serving as of December 2022.

   Source: govtrack.us

2. August 2022 · action

   Ran a $3.3 million anti-China ad campaign in his Senate race that drew criticism from fellow Democrats and Asian American advocacy groups; Ryan defended the ads as being about trade and economic policy, not race.

   Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) and AAPI Victory Fund chairman Shekar Narasimhan, per Roll Call: risked stoking anti-Asian sentiment · the source

   Source: rollcall.com

3. December 2019 · vote

   Voted for the bipartisan USMCA trade deal in 2019, one of relatively few Ohio Democrats who worked across the aisle on trade legislation with the Trump administration.

   Source: ballotpedia.org

J.D. Vance

1. August 18, 2022 · action

   During the 2022 campaign, the Associated Press reported that his charity, Our Ohio Renewal, sent psychiatrist Sally Satel -- whose employer, the American Enterprise Institute, had received funding from opioid manufacturer Purdue Pharma -- to Ohio's Appalachian region, raising conflict-of-interest questions around opioid-epidemic messaging, a central plank of his platform.

   Source: Vance's anti-drug charity enlisted doctor echoing Big Pharma

2. July 27, 2022 · action

   His 2017 nonprofit, Our Ohio Renewal, launched to fight Ohio's opioid crisis, filed a tax return for only one year and, in its most active year, spent nearly half its funds paying a Vance political adviser, Jai Chabria, $63,425 to serve as executive director and $45,000 for a public-opinion survey.

   PolitiFact: Mostly True · the source

   Source: GOP Senate hopeful J.D. Vance paid political adviser to run his opioid-focused nonprofit

3. 2022 · action

   Held no prior elected or appointed public office before the 2022 campaign; he was not yet in office during the cycle, so there is no in-office voting or governing record to assess for 2022. He was sworn in as U.S. Senator in January 2023, after the election.

   Source: J.D. Vance

Tim Ryan

FEC, as of December 31, 2022: raised $57,770,820, spent $57,714,280, cash on hand $56,540.

Source: fec.gov

Top donors, as filed

• J Street · $162,981 · PAC · Out of state

  Pro-Israel advocacy PAC

  Source: opensecrets.org

• Ohio State University · $116,408 · campaign committee · In state

  Employer-bundled individual giving

  Source: opensecrets.org

• Alphabet Inc (Google) · $89,047 · campaign committee · Out of state

  Employer-bundled individual giving; company with a stake in the domestic chip supply chain

  Source: opensecrets.org

J.D. Vance

FEC, as of December 31, 2022: raised $15,994,977, spent $15,553,668, cash on hand $441,309.

Source: VANCE, J D - Candidate overview (financial summary, 2022 cycle)

Top donors, as filed

• Peter Thiel · $10,000,000 · super PAC · Out of state

  Vance's former employer at Mithril Capital and a financial backer of his own venture fund Narya Capital

  Source: Peter Thiel, Mercers Back a Potential J.D. Vance Senate Run

Outside spending

• · as of 2022

  Protect Ohio Values · $10,000,000 · support

  Source: Peter Thiel, Mercers Back a Potential J.D. Vance Senate Run