The Democrats maintain control of the U.S.  Senate, and the House is up for grabs.  While a handful of congressional races yet to be determined, the Republicans have a slight edge to take control of the house.  But the results of last week’s mid-term election was not the overall victory that both the Republican and Democratic parties were promising before the election.   While the Republican statewide candidates had sound victories in the election last week.  Ohio Northern Political professor Rob Alexander says that the November 8^th election was more about Donald Trump than Joe Biden and the economy when it came to bringing out voters.

The Allen County Democratic Party has set up their headquarters to be ready for the November General Election which is a little more than a month away. The location is 206 E. Market Street, across from Allen County Public Health. They are happy to have the downtown Lima location leading up to the November 8th election.  The party will be holding some get out the vote rallies at the headquarters and they will be doing some canvasing from the location too.  They believe this election is important to Democratic issues.

The program started with around 50 shops in 2020 in the mists of the pandemic and has grown to around 250 shops across the state, including Bug's Barbershop on North Main Street in Lima. LaRose says Ohio has led the nation in many ways in getting people to register to vote, and this is just another example.

“One of the things that I want to do is make America safer,” says Wilson. “I want to help reduce mass violence, school shootings, domestic terrorism, domestic violence, and the growth of miss and disinformation in our internet and social media. I think that is really important.”

LIMA, OH (WLIO) - The Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate is crossing Ohio to talk about increasing the energy independence of the country.

In the August election, local Republicans and Democrats can vote on races for the state representative, state senate, and central committee races. The second primary was needed after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected five sets of maps drawn by the Ohio Redistricting Commission. A federal court ruled that the August second primary would proceed with the 3rd set of maps that the commission drew.

 Jeff Sites Allen County Democratic Executive Committee Chair, “Well, we just have to go out and talk. We invite people to our meetings all the time. That way we can converse with them. We’re going to do social media obviously, e-mail marketing that we can reach out to the democratic voters here in Allen County.”

This November, Republican candidate JD Vance will face Democratic candidate Tim Ryan for Rob Portman's open senate seat. Both Ryan and Vance gained over three hundred thousand votes each during Tuesday's primary. Both candidates talked about what they think their nomination shows, and what they aim to focus on from now until election day.