 Like just a few weeks ago in Youngstown, on the stage, Donald Trump said to J.D. Vance, all you do is kiss my ass to get my support. He said that. And then the New York Times did a fake story today, big front page, that J.D. wasn't sure if he wanted my support. J.D. is kissing my ass, he wants my support, so I'm 18 points up. If I was 18 points down, he wouldn't want my support. I'll tell you, Jim Jordan wants my support, and he's doing just fine, right? No, these are fake people. These are dishonest. These are very dishonest people. That's bad because that means J.D. Vance is going to do whatever he wants. Mitch McConnell's given him 40 million, he's going to do what he wants, and Peter Thiel gave him 15 million, he's going to do what he wants. And here's the thing that's most troubling about this, lack of courage, is that after Trump took J.D. Vance's dignity from him on the stage in Youngstown, J.D. Vance got back up on stage and said, start shaking his hand, take a picture saying, hey, aren't we having a great time here tonight? I don't know anybody I grew up with, I don't know anybody I went to high school with that would allow somebody to take their dignity like that and then get back up on stage. We need leaders who have courage to take on their own party. And I've proven that, and he was called an ass kisser by the former president. You just watched Ohio Senate Democratic candidate Tim Ryan embarrass his Republican opponent, J.D. Vance. And that was almost difficult to watch. Not necessarily because I felt sympathy for J.D. Vance, but because of how humiliating it had to have felt like this is quintessential cringe here to call out the way that you're an ass kisser. And the way that Trump called you an ass kisser, and you just sat there and smiled and nodded along, really, really embarrassing. And I wasn't necessarily sure the way that Tim Ryan could use this in an attack, but I think it was really clever to tie this to lack of courage. Now, what I also really liked about what Tim Ryan did there was he called out the corruption with J.D. Vance. He took millions of dollars from Peter Thiel, a GOP billionaire. So obviously, if you get elected, he's going to call in some favors and like the stooge that you are, you're going to deliver. So what makes this situation even worse for J.D. Vance is knowing the way that J.D. Vance was formerly an anti-Trump Republican and he called for more moderation in the Republican Party. And now here he is, a Trump-sick-a-fan whose as extreme as he can possibly be. So the Columbia Dispatch reports in 2016, Vance said Trump was reprehensible and cultural heroine and wondered whether Trump might be America's Hitler. But when Vance decided to run for the Senate, he went full maga, complimenting Trump at every opportunity. Vance used to call for a more moderate GOP a little more than a decade ago. He wrote a series of articles where he endorsed affirmative action, savage Republicans as anti-science and rejected partisan vitriol. Of all the things I can't stand about politics, he wrote, the tendency to emotionalize a difficult topic is probably the worst. He wanted a more measured and moderate Republican Party, one that was more socially inclusive. So this man is a fraud. And I think it's really important for Democrats to not just call out corruption of Republicans, but to also call out the ways in which they are extreme. Because for years now, we've heard the way that Democrats are socialist. Democrats are communist. The far left is taking over the Democratic Party. It's just factually incorrect. But Democrats haven't pushed back. But recently, Republicans have gone so far to the right that you can't not notice it. So I think that Democrats need to capitalize on this. And thankfully, Tim Ryan did just that during this debate. And he called out the ways in which he is against gay marriage, abortion, contraception. When JD Vance used to support these things. Take a look. The problem we have here is we have 15,000 marriages here in Ohio. And when you read Justice Thomas's opinion on abortion, which JD Vance wants to celebrate, it also included in there nullifying these marriages. And it also included in there getting rid of protections around birth control. This is what I'm trying to explain to Ohioans, that JD Vance is extreme on these issues. No exceptions for rape or incest. He called rape inconvenient. He said he denied it, but it's on tape, right? Now he says he's not for same-sex marriage. He's going right down the line with the absolute most extremist, the guys who want to ban books and everything else. Those are the guys you bring into the state to campaign for you, JD. These are extreme positions that Ohioans are rejecting. Again, I think this is a good strategy that all Democrats need to implement. They need to call out the extremism on the right. But Tim Ryan didn't just limit his critique of JD Vance's extremism to social issues. He called out the ways in which he actually aided and abetted insurrectionists. JD Vance raised money for the legal defense fund of the insurrectionists. This is the kind of extremism, JD, that we wholly reject. You have video posts. Don't even try to deny it. And we got your Twitter posts and everything else. Everybody's seen it. He said, help these guys with their legal defense fund. Now, can you imagine one guy saying out of one side of his mouth, he's pro-cop. And out of the other side of his mouth, he's raising money for the insurrectionists who are beating up the Capitol Police. The one guy tried to raise money for got four years in prison. That right there, my friends, is how it's done. That is just a devastating point. Because Tim Ryan is an individual who isn't trying to position himself on the left. So strategically, he has to try to appeal to moderate voters. How do you do that? Well, you call out how this is no one who any moderate should be supporting. He funded insurrectionists. On top of that, he is an extremist when it comes to social issues. So he's taking JD Vance and putting all of his weaknesses on blast. And I think that this is a really good strategy. Now, one more thing that I want to speak to here with regard to this debate, one more clip that I want to play, is the way that JD Vance was called out by Tim Ryan for not just his being a cuck by Donald Trump and his extremism, but for his opportunism and how phony he is. You know what I haven't done? I didn't start a fake nonprofit pretending like I was going to help people with addiction, like JD Vance did, literally started a nonprofit and didn't spend one nickel on anybody. In fact, he brought in somebody from Purdue Pharma to be the spokesperson for the nonprofit. The same drug company, Big Pharma, the big drug company that had all the pill mills going, got everybody addicted. One million people died, JD. One million people died. And you started a nonprofit to try to take advantage of people in Ohio. And you know what? All you did with it was launch your political career. His campaign manager worked for that nonprofit. He ran a poll to check his own standing from that nonprofit. I think that one thing that became abundantly clear during this debate to voters who were undecided is that JD Vance is as phony as you can possibly be. He's an opportunist. And while I can't verify what Tim Ryan said about not a single nickel going to people who were suffering from addiction, everything else he said was spot-on. And for additional context, we go to Insider, who explains a review by Insider of the nonprofit's tax filings showed that in its first year, our Ohio renewal spent more on management services provided by its executive director, Jai Chambria, who also serves as Vance's top political advisor than it did on programs to fight opioid abuse. The nonprofit raised so little in each of the last three years, less than $50,000 a year, that it wasn't even required by the IRS to disclose its activities and finances. It's a superficial way for him to say he's helping Ohio, says Doug White, a philanthropy advisor and former director of Columbia University's master of science in fundraising management. So how many people his nonprofits specifically helped? That information is a little bit more difficult to ascertain. But what's abundantly clear here is that this was nothing more than a vanity project that he used to launch his bid for the Senate. So he can point to this and say, look, this is what I did for the people of Ohio when in actuality, there wasn't much there there. And for all of JD Vance's wealth, there's a number of things that he can do to actually help the people of Ohio, but he's not doing that. He's not using his wealth for good. He's a political opportunist and he's trying to say and do anything to get elected. And I think that more than anything, that is what Tim Ryan successfully demonstrated during this debate. So look, Tim Ryan was not my first choice for the Democratic Party nominee, Morgan Harper was, but I won't be voting. So it doesn't really matter. It's not up to me, but I would still definitely vote for Tim Ryan over JD Vance because Tim Ryan, even if he isn't as progressive as I want him to be, he's at least competent. He's at least more rational than someone like JD Vance who is inauthentic, who will say whatever he needs to do, who's so craven that even Donald Trump, who endorsed JD Vance, called him an ass-kisser. We have too much of that already in Washington, D.Z. So to have another Trump sycophant come in, I mean, I just, I just can't see why anyone would opt for that. Right? So there you have it. Tim Ryan, Lover Marhatem did a phenomenal job here and even lefties like me have got to give credit where it's due. That was a great debate performance. And if he continues to hit JD Vance on all of his weaknesses like this, call out the corruption specifically. I think that that will indeed land with voters in Ohio. Because Mike's doing a great job getting to watch his videos before everyone else is tremendous. Many people are saying this. Join today, folks. You won't regret it.