When the 2023 legislative session in Ohio began, it was supposed to be another tour de force for the Republican Party.

Having gained an additional three seats in the state House and one in the state Senate to secure supermajorities in both chambers, alongside a landslide reelection for Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH), the GOP was on cruise control, locking the Democratic Party out of every corner of state government. 

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