
GOP congressional committee cancels ad reservations in key House race in Ohio
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The National Republican Congressional Committee is canceling all their ad reservations in Ohio's 9th Congressional District, according to CNN's ad tracker AdImpact, a sign that Republicans are losing faith in J.R. Majewski's controversial bid to unseat Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur.
The committee had planned to spend over $700,000 on the northwest Ohio race, according to the ad tracker, but cut those reservations just days after The Associated Press reported Majewski had misrepresented his military service. The report appears to have been the final straw for a candidate who was a January 6, 2021, rally participant and has repeatedly shared pro-QAnon material, despite denying he followed the conspiracy theory movement.
Majewski responded to the cancellations during a news conference on Friday, directing reporters to ask the committee about why it cut its planned spending. Majewski also pushed back against the AP reporting that he misrepresented his military service, claiming he "flew into combat zones often, specifically in Afghanistan" and that "anyone insinuating that I did not serve in Afghanistan is lying."

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