Matt Dolan

Last week, The Plain Dealer/Cleveland.com posted an extraordinary editorial – one that begged Sen. Rob Portman to jump into Ohio's Senate race and save Ohio Republicans from an embarrassing and potentially devastating primary election in May, lest "the ugliness that is the Republican primary for your seat ... continue its cavalcade of intemperate, cruel, ill-judged, narrow-minded and explosive rhetoric designed to divide not unite."

State Sen. Matt Dolan, a Republican from the Cleveland suburb of Chagrin Falls, has other things he wants to talk about than the nation's 45th president.

Dolan, whose family owns Cleveland's baseball team, would likely differentiate himself from the other GOP candidates positioning themselves as Trump surrogates.

Is there room in next May's primary for a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio who doesn’t spend every waking moment kissing the ring of Donald J.…

Ohio State Sen. Matt Dolan (Chagrin Falls) is considering a run for Republican Rob Portman’s U.S. Senate seat, announcing Monday the launch of a statewide listening tour, called #OhioMatters, to determine if he’ll enter the race or not. Dolan kicks off the listening tour Tuesday at a luncheon to be held at Lake County Republican Headquarters. Over the next two weeks, he’ll move on to Trumbull, Mahoning, Cuyahoga, Franklin, Lorain, Lucas, Wood, Ottawa and Ashland counties.