It has been a long week for Ohio Republican Derek Myers's campaign…
On Tuesday, Myers's campaign committed a series of mistakes, including sending out a concession email blast to media outlets.
An email from Myers' campaign office that was on Tuesday at around 3 p.m. ET expressed disappointment that “tonight did not go as we had hoped.”
Myers said “from a private watch party in Chillicothe” that he was looking forward to uniting behind the “Congressman-Elect” to get President Trump reelected to the White House by defeating President Biden. Polls in Ohio close at 7:30 p.m. ET.
“Listen, I'm in my thirties and as I've told everyone on this campaign trial, ‘if I don't win this race, that's okay!' I've got thirty-or-fifty more years left – and that's if I live a good live,” he said in the email. “I'm looking forward to staying in the arena of Ohio politics and working with all Republicans to make Ohio great again!”
Less than 10 minutes later, Myers' campaign office sent out a follow-up email, admitting that the previous one had been sent “in error, due to a technical issue.” Myers explained that his campaign team had prepared two emails for the evening, with “one declaring victory and one conceding the race.”
“The concession email was sent in error as it was being loaded into the media distribution portal, as a draft, in the event of a loss,” Myers said, adding that someone accidentally hit the “send now” button instead of “draft.”
The Ohio Republican explained that the winning email was also drafted, a common practice for communications teams, so they can be prepared “especially on such an impotent night.”
His campaign quickly clarified to Fox News Digital that he meant to say “important.”
Despite the series of events Myers seemed to brush it off by making joke on X.
“If this whole politics thing doesn't work out, maybe I can be hired to be a spokesman like Bob Dole?” Myers tweeted, referring to the former U.S. senator from Kansas and presidential candidate. The tweet included a 1998 commercial for Viagra, featuring Dole.
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