COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Donald Trump-backed Ohio Republican whose army report was known as into query throughout his unsuccessful 2022 congressional marketing campaign says he’s abandoning plans to run once more subsequent yr.
J.R. Majewski tweeted Tuesday that he’s bowing out of his newest effort to win the GOP nomination and tackle Democratic U.S. Rep. Marcy Kaptur attributable to his mom’s well being.
“Final cycle, I misplaced my father earlier than the first election and I am unable to threat not giving my full consideration to my household,” he stated on Twitter. “However do not fret, I like this nation an excessive amount of to remain idle.”
He had deliberate to focus his marketing campaign on working-class residents and “placing America first.”
Majewski, of Port Clinton on Lake Erie, first drew public consideration for drawing a sprawling banner supporting Trump throughout his garden, and the previous president went on to advertise Majewski’s political future at a rally in southwest Ohio in November.
3News spoke to Majewski concerning the show again in 2020:
The previous nuclear energy business employee was the shock winner of final yr’s four-way Republican major for the Toledo-area ninth Congressional District, successful just below 36% of the vote. He bested two sitting Republican state lawmakers and a 3rd rival to safe the nomination, however finally misplaced to Kaptur, the longest serving lady in Congress, by greater than 13 share factors.
Forward of the election, The Related Press reported that Majewski had misrepresented his army report to voters. He claimed he has served within the Air Drive in Afghanistan, however public information indicated he had by no means deployed there and as an alternative spent six months on a base in Qatar. Majewski denied the report and defiantly remained within the race, saying his deployment was categorized and subsequently not current in public information.
The AP later reported that Majewski was demoted within the army for driving drunk on an air base, one other contradiction to his earlier statements.
