Couchfucking Vice President JD Vance’s brother Cory Bowman, who owns a coffee shop in Cincinnati, advanced to the general November general election in his run for the mayorship of the Skyline Chili city in Tuesday’s top-two technically nonpartisan primary, the New York Times reports.
That’s the good news for Bowman. The bad news is that the Republican’s second place finish was a very, very distant one at 2,894 votes or 12.9 percent, to incumbent Democrat Mayor Aftab Pureval’s 18,505 votes at 82.5 percent. Another Republican candidate, Brian Patrick Frank, was eliminated, but obviously consolidating Franks’s 1,022 votes at 4.6 percent are nowhere near enough needed for Bowman to be competitive. Turnout in the 2021 mayoral general election was larger than Tuesday’s primary, but not by orders of magnitude at 51,402. Pureval defeated fellow Dem David Mann 65.8 to 34.3 percent in that contest. It’s been literally a century since the last GOP mayor of Cincinnati who was elected popularly left office, though others had been picked by city council since then, the most recent in 1971, 54 years ago. So Cory’s got some work to do over the next six months.
It’s not clear why Bowman didn’t just pick some nearby district and run for the House instead of this silly suicide mission in a city that voted for Kamala by 77 percent. That worked for Greg Pence.