Area Republicans applaud following record-length State of the Union

Rep. Mike Carey, who represents irregularly-shaped Ohio district 15 that includes parts of Clark County and Miami County, tweeted a statement as the speech ended saying that Republicans had delivered on promises of “lower taxes, safer communities and a brighter future for our nation.”

Sen. Jon Husted tweeted multiple times during the speech, crediting the president with curbing fentanyl flow into Ohio and “revitalizing our domestic energy supply.”

He also used his time during the speech to talk about multiple pieces of legislation and programs he is involved with, including the Working Families Tax Cuts Act, a bill to require CDL testing be in English, the controversial SAVE Act and future work with Vice President J.D. Vance to “root out the fraud and abuse” in the U.S.

Sen. Bernie Moreno said that after “Career politicians in DC drove our country off a cliff for decades,” that Trump was “ushering in the Golden Age.”

Area Democrats largely didn’t comment after the speech Tuesday evening, though Rep. Greg Landsman, whose district includes Cincinnati and all of Warren County, posted a video earlier in the day lamenting that with Trump that the State of the Union was just theater, with the president trying to pick a fight with the crowd.

He said that the State of the Union used to be a serious speech laying out issues and solutions, followed by a packet of bills sent to Congress the next day and the president traveling the country to talk about the issues brought up in the speech.