Six members of the Champaign County Preservation Alliance were touring the picturesque downtown in Urbana, the central Ohio town where Representative Jim Jordan has made his mark as a state champion wrestler, an aspiring politician and now a member of Congress.
As they watched his attempt to end the tortured efforts to choose a new House speaker, the uncompromising figure he casts nationally is much the same as seen back home in the heavily gerrymandered, largely Republican, Fourth Congressional District that snakes and loops through hundreds of miles of mainly small towns and farmland.
The district is much whiter and slightly poorer, less educated and older than the state at large.
It went for Donald Trump in 2020 by nearly a 36 percentage point margin.
Amanda McDaniel, a member of the preservation alliance, is rooting for Jordan’s speaker bid — seeing in him the same principles she holds.
Persons:
Jim Jordan, Donald Trump, Amanda McDaniel
Organizations:
Champaign County Preservation Alliance, Republican, Fourth Congressional
Locations:
Champaign, Urbana, Ohio