Ohio GOP state senator: 'It’s going to take a civil war to save the country’ if Dems win

Ohio State Sen. George Lang (R-Butler) on Monday warned if Republicans lose the 2024 presidential election, “it’s going to take a civil war to save the country — and it will be saved.”

Lang was speaking at a rally in Middletown, OH, where Donald Trump’s running mate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) is “set to hold a hometown rally” and “his first solo appearance” since securing the Republican vice presidential nomination last week, NPR’s Stephen Fowler reports.

According to Fowler, Lang “kick[ed] things off” at the rally by warning of violence if Democrats win the presidential election.

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"I believe wholeheartedly Donald Trump and Butler County's JD Vance are the last chance to save our country,” Lang said. “Politically, I'm afraid if we lose this one, it's going to take a civil war to save the country — and it will be saved.”

The rally comes after President Joe Biden on Sunday announced he will not seek reelection in a shock statement that came less than a month after his disastrous debate performance against Trump. In a tweet announcing his decision, Biden offered his “full support and endorsement for [Vice President] Kamala [Harris] to be the nominee of our party this year.”

As Fowler notes, Ohio GOP Senate nominee Bernie Moreno also spoke at the Middletown rally, where he claimed Americans don’t know "who's in charge of this country" and insisted Democrats "looked the other way as they put an incapacitated man in the White House.”

“So far nobody's mentioned” Harris at the rally, Fowler reports.

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According to CNN, in the 3-week scramble that followed last month’s presidential debate, “Trump’s team … orchestrated an exacting campaign around defeating Biden.”

"It included millions of dollars already spent on models to predict results in key battlegrounds, putting in place a sophisticated data operation and readying an advertising blitz to contrast the two candidates,” CNN reports. “It’s a campaign built around the assumption Trump would face an 81-year-old whose physical state and mental acuity had become such an albatross that enough voters would overlook the Republican nominee’s many flaws.”

One Republican strategist told CNN Harris’ “real value … is simply the fact that Democrats won’t have to worry whether their nominee can meet the minimal threshold of fitness for office.”

“That means this will be a real campaign,” the strategist said.

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