- Two Ohio Republicans want an annual ‘President Donald J. Trump Day’, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
- Deputies Jon Cross and Reggie Stoltfuz proposed to their colleagues a bill that would make June 14 a state holiday.
- In this email, lawmakers said June 14 “would celebrate one of the greatest presidents in American history”.
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Two Ohio Republicans want to honor former President Donald Trump by naming a day in June in his honor, according to The Columbus Dispatch.
Representatives Jon Cross of Kenton and Reggie Stoltfuz of Paris Township sent an email on Friday asking their fellow lawmakers to declare June 14th as ‘President Donald J. Trump’s day’, the newspaper reported. .
The two Republicans specifically asked their colleagues in the Ohio House of Representatives to co-sponsor a bill that “would celebrate one of the greatest presidents in American history,” said Dispatch.
In the email, representatives told lawmakers, “We will show the 3,154,834 Ohio voters who voted to re-elect Donald J. Trump that we, as a legislature, recognize the achievements of his administration.”
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Trump beat Ohio by eight points in the 2020 presidential election.
In 2016, he defeated former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the midwestern state by nine points.
Ohio currently has a strong Republican presence. Governor Mike DeWine is a member of the Republican Party and both houses of the state legislature have a Republican majority.
Former presidents are often honored by the states. For example, 40 states recognize Ronald Reagan’s Day.
Illinois annually celebrates former President Barack Obama on August 4.
Honoring a former president soon after he left the White House, however, would be unique.
Declaring a state holiday for a former president facing impeachment would also be against the convention.