Former Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio) It has been submitted He is scheduled to run for his old seat in the U.S. House of Representatives in the Cleveland suburbs on Thursday, where he will face Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) as an independent candidate.
Mr. Kucinich, 76, served in Ohio's 7th Congressional District from 1997 to 2012, losing to Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D-Ohio) in the post-redistricting primary. He previously served as mayor of Cleveland in the 1970s.
The filing deadline for Democratic primaries passed last month, but the independent deadline is March.
While in Congress, Kucinic launched two long presidential campaigns in 2004 and 2008. He chaired the House Progressive Caucus and voted specifically against the Iraq War.
In recent years, he lost the Democratic primaries for Ohio governor in 2018 and Cleveland mayor in 2021.
Mr. Kucinich most recently served as campaign manager for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s long-running Democratic presidential campaign. He left the Kennedy campaign in October when Kennedy decided to run as an independent candidate.
Miller is a first-term congressman who was a close aide to President Trump before joining Congress. In 2022, he comfortably defeated Democrat Matthew Diemer by 11 points. Diemer will run again in the 2024 Democratic primary.
“Congressman Miller is focused on serving the people of Ohio's 7th Congressional District and continues to devote his energy to effectively representing them at home and in Washington,” a spokesperson for Congressman Miller said in a statement. said Tiffany Boguslowski. He told the Cleveland Plain Dealer..
The Hill has reached out to Kucinich and Miller's campaigns for comment.
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