Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘

Republican State Central Committeeman for Ohio Senate District 29, @Westernstarkgop Chairman, Fmr @starkgop Vice Chair. 🇺🇸 First.

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Well said, @ChairmanAlex

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Great to be with the @ChairmanAlex and the @ohiogop slate today!

[Alex Triantafilou 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸 @ChairmanAlex]

The energy for @VivekGRamaswamy & @SenJonHusted @TeamHusted was OFF THE CHARTS in central Ohio today! We talked about Issue 3–an initiative of the @ohiogop to get common sense PHOTO ID into the state constitution. We are well on our way to another GOP win in Ohio. 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Well said, Chairman!

[Alex Triantafilou 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸 @ChairmanAlex]

I’ve been around the political game long enough to know the media mostly ignore these things when it’s a Democrat, chalking them up to campaign season dirty tricks. It’s media malpractice, and Republicans are used to that mistreatment. That said, there are serious questions about her ability to do this job. The volatility from that episode with the police, alcohol, and prescription drugs warrants further investigation. While Ohio GOP social media can ask those questions, a responsible press must ask tough questions of someone seeking to lead our state. These aren’t slimy dirty tricks but legitimate questions about her capacity to be the executive of a state of our size and scope. We must determine her ability to lead with character.

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

Securing our elections is vital to preserving trust in American democracy.

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➡️ https://t.co/xmk4kl5vRc

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul. 16, 2026 https://t.co/GHD5LO2HIa

[Ohio Republican Party @ohiogop]

Read this carefully:

Amy Acton LIED about COVID fatality rates in Ohio to justify shutting down your businesses, schools, places of worship, and way of life. She’s unstable and unfit.
https://t.co/phxKAFIhKW

[Stephen Miller @StephenM]

At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said: “I’ve never had this much fun in my life.”

I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump’s leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship and uproarious laughter.

As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with, doing precisely what you want to do — that was every moment for Lindsey.

When President Trump won in Nov 2024, Lindsey was exultant. Elated. And determined. He couldn’t wait to spearhead work, as the Budget Chairman, on the reconciliation bill that would cement President Trump’s most important campaign promises. I’ll never forget the senate lunch, when a couple Senators were a tad off the program, and Lindsey — in his inimitable way — made sure everyone was onside by the time we left. It was a glorious thing to witness. He knew how to move a room.

Lindsey was a senator’s senator. The job was everything to him. Truly did he believe in the splendor of the office and the noble lineage behind it, of which he was the worthy heir.

He was a senator in the mold of those who fashioned the institution, someone who still had the ability, in a heated exchange, to use rhetorical power to change the course of events.

Which is why we will never forget his legendary Kavanaugh moment. We rarely think that we are out of time with our friends, so while there is a lot more I wish I could have said to Lindsey, I am glad that more than once I told him what that moment meant to the whole nation and why he was the only Senator who could have done it with such utter perfection.

Most importantly, I had the chance to tell him on many occasions what his friendship meant to me and to us all. There was never once a time he didn’t answer a phone call and lend whatever assistance was required. It was never a question with Lindsey. He believed deeply in the code of friendship and loyalty.

The fact that Lindsey started out as a political opponent only to become one the President’s most steadfast and faithful supporters underscores that Lindsey believed emphatically in the voice of the people.

There is a lot more I would like to say. His passing, at a time when he had never been more dynamic, is as unexpected as it is shocking. In many respects, Lindsey was the last of a breed of American Senator whose like we may not yet see again for a long time.

He lived every minute in the arena, a political gladiator to the very last.

More than anything now, our thoughts are with his Sister, nieces and loved ones.

We pray that God will ease their sorrow and heal their pain.

Lindsey can never be replaced and will never be forgotten.

Godspeed, my friend.

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Our hearts are with the Rittman Police Department, the Wayne County Sheriff’s Office, and the families affected by this tragedy. Please pray for the fallen officer, the injured officers, including K-9 Officer Vic, and all who serve. May God bless and protect our law enforcement.

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

As the Democrats embrace failed policy ideas and move farther to the left, the Republican Party is the party of solutions for the American worker.

[Students For Liberty @sfliberty]

In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.

He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.

Two years later, it was over. 🧵

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

@BrianStewartOH Preach!

[Ohio Republican Party @ohiogop]

Vivek Ramaswamy laid out a bold 10-point agenda for Ohio. Ramaswamy called for bringing high-paying jobs back to Ohio, raising standards in schools, and teaching kids to be proud of their state and their country. https://t.co/VrDHB5dLUy

[Alex Triantafilou 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸 @ChairmanAlex]

Yesterday was a dynamic day of engaging and orienting our newest @ohiogop State Central Committee Members. With a focused eye on winning elections, these patriots joined our team to help GET OUT THE VOTE in Ohio. Rise & Rally! 🔥🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸🔥

[Ohio Republican Party @ohiogop]

TODAY: Chairman Alex M. Triantafilou unanimously re-elected as Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. He had this to say:

“I am humbled by the trust of the State Central Committee and ready to get right back to work. The 2026 midterms will decide who fights for Ohio in Columbus and in Washington. Our job is clear. We are going to elect Vivek Ramaswamy as Governor, send Jon Husted to the United States Senate, and stand with Republicans up and down the ballot in every one of Ohio's 88 counties.”

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Great to spend a little time with my colleague at the @ohiogop State Central Committee! I appreciated your time today.

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Great night with the Alliance Area Republican Club hearing from Dr. Dave Mungo on faith, values, and the future of our nation 🇺🇸

These local Republican clubs are where grassroots involvement truly happens. Also great seeing my friend Christina Hagan, 48th House District!

[Steven Tharp for Ohio 🐘 @tharpforoh]

Ready to work. 🇺🇸

Thank you to the voters of the 29th Senate District for electing me to serve on the Ohio Republican State Central Committee.

I look forward to fighting for conservative values, supporting our candidates, and helping build a stronger Ohio GOP.

[Alex Triantafilou 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸 @ChairmanAlex]

Now?!? After you served for nearly 5 decades? Get outta here…

[Alex Triantafilou 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸 @ChairmanAlex]

Why didn’t you do it when you were there for decades?!?!

[Warren Davidson 🇺🇸 @WarrenDavidson]

When President George Washington responded to the Whiskey Rebellion with 13,000 troops, the people submitted to the Constitutional authority of the federal government. 24 leaders of the rebellion were convicted of treason.

The Civil War began when South Carolina responded to federal authority with force and their open rebellion continued until force ultimately compelled their compliance.

Make no mistake, sanctuary cities and states are in open rebellion to the sovereignty of the United States. Within their sanctuaries, they have effectively nullified federal authority over citizenship and decisions about the lawful presence of foreign nationals in the United States.

Federal authority must prevail in this clear Constitutional crisis. States have authority over many things - 10th Amendment. But, citizenship and the lawful or unlawful presence of foreign nationals is not one of them. Open rebellion must end, beginning in Minnesota.

Illegal immigration undermines our sovereignty. All accomplices, beginning with Alejandro Mayorkas, must be charged, tried, convicted, and given long sentences. Open rebellion cannot stand!

While the Insurrection Act is fully merited, learn from counterinsurgency operations that the means employed always matter.

Yes, Dean, the 2nd Amendment is essential to defending freedom. However, defending foreign nationals against the lawful enforcement of United States immigration law is open rebellion.

President George Washington cautioned rebels: "not to abet, aid, or comfort the Insurgents aforesaid, as they will answer the contrary at their peril." Thankfully, the Whiskey Rebellion ended peacefully and force wasn't ultimately required.

I pray for the same peaceful outcome in Minnesota: our Constitution prevails and the rebellion stops.

[Alex Triantafilou 🇺🇸🐘🇺🇸 @ChairmanAlex]

This was the scene @miamiuniversity earlier tonight. Some people couldn’t get in because it was so crowded. This isn’t a campaign—it’s a movement. @VivekGRamaswamy is a different candidate for a new era. @amyactonoh is low energy and tired. Ohio is on the move with Vivek! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸