Buckeye Reporter

Gubernatorial candidate Jim Renacci is upset by President Joe Biden’s comments on the anniversary of the Jan. 6 rioting in the Capitol.

Biden criticized former Present Donald Trump, saying his predecessor’s “web of lies” was responsible for rioters entering the U.S. Capitol.

“It's a shame that Joe Biden is using this day to divide Americans, distract from his disastrously failed presidency, and take cheap shots at President Trump,” Renacci said in a statement. “The liberal media may eat it up, but Ohioans, who voted against Joe Biden and for President Trump in the biggest landslide in our state in over 30 years, see right through it.”

Biden did not say Trump’s name during the speech, opting to call him the “former president.”

Renacci is a former U.S. representative who is running against Gov. Mike Dewine in the May 3 primary. He said the nation’s problems are much bigger than that of the Jan. 6 riot.

“Ohioans aren't paying attention to the fake spectacle the DC Democrats are putting on TV,” Renacci said. “They would rather talk about the open border flowing with drugs and crime, uncontrollable COVID, unaffordable gas prices, and the un-American surrender in Afghanistan. Unlike the Democrats' obsession with Jan. 6, these are real issues hurting real Americans. President Trump is correct that everything Joe Biden touches turns to failure (just like liberal RINO Mike DeWine), and my campaign and our supporters continue to stand with him, today and every day.”

Renacci, 63, is an accountant and entrepreneur who once owned the Columbus Destroyers in the Arena Football League. He won election to U.S. Congress in 2010 as part of the Tea Party movement, and later endorsed Donald Trump over then-Ohio Gov. John Kasich in the 2016 GOP primary for president.