Cory Bowman, the half-brother of Vice President JD Vance, told Newsmax on Thursday that his campaign for mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio, is focused on “issues that are affecting our city” and not “national politics.”
Bowman, a minister and local business owner in Cincinnati, told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” that he “initially” felt that he was “just going to be putting my head on the chopping block, so to say, because nobody else was stepping up” to run against Mayor Aftab Pureval, a Democrat. Bowman’s fellow Republican, Brian Frank, a retired executive at the Cincinnati-based Procter & Gamble, will also compete in the GOP primary this May.
He said that “in the last three months, nothing could be further from the truth in my mind. We’ve had so much support and … so many people and citizens in the city that are tired of how things have gone specifically in the last four years, and they’re ready for change.”
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