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However, voters know Gesiotto Gilbert spewed lies about the 2020 election to please her extremist party bosses, and has cheered life-threatening legislation banning abortions for women and young girls.
DCCC Spokesperson Nebeyatt Betre:
“If Madison Gesiotto Gilbert can’t be honest with Northeast Ohioans, she doesn’t deserve their votes. The truth of the matter is that she knows she’s running on a deeply unpopular agenda that will cost her the election.”
Read more below:
Akron Beacon Journal: Sykes vs. Gesiotto Gilbert: Who will speak for Ohio’s 13th Congressional District?
By Amanda Garrett
10/13/2022
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The two women vying for Ohio’s reconfigured 13th U.S. Congressional District are both millennials who grew up in Northeast Ohio – Emilia Sykes, a Democrat, in Akron and Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, a Republican, in Massillon.
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Yet Sykes, 36, and Gesiotto Gilbert, 30, have strikingly different world views about everything from abortion and labor unions to climate change and who won the last presidential election.
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Some pundits have suggested the race for the 13th – which includes all of Summit County and the northern half of Stark County – is a localized repeat of Joe Biden versus Donald Trump, with a moderate Democrat taking on a Make America Great Again Republican.
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“Every time I was elected, I made sure I provided my community with top-level service and accessibility and leadership they could be proud of,” Emilia Sykes said during a recent interview with the Akron Beacon Journal.
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That experience, she said, has taught her the ins and outs of how government works, so that when constituents come to her having trouble with rent, or day care or health care, she knows how to get them help.
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The Washington Post this month reported that nearly two-thirds of GOP nominations for state and federal offices with authority over elections deny the legitimacy of Joe Biden’s 2020 win of the presidency.
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If those candidates held power in 2020, they would have had the power to overturn the vote, and reinstall Trump as president even though there is no evidence he won the election, the newspaper reported.
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The report identified Gesiotto Gilbert as one of 299 Republican election deniers running for office in November, including 173 who are expected to win. The Sykes/Gesiotto Gilbert race was too close to call, the newspaper said.
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When the Beacon Journal asked Gesiotto Gilbert whether it was true or false that Trump lost the election and why, she didn’t answer.
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Instead, she wrote a paragraph slamming Biden and his policies.
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Gesiotto Gilbert said she supports the U.S. Supreme Court ruling this year on Dobbs, which overturned Roe v. Wade and the constitutional right to abortion.
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Gesiotto Gilbert did not directly answer questions about whether she would support a ban on all abortions, whether women who seek abortion should face criminal charges and whether there should be exceptions for rape, incest or the health of the mother.
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Gesiotto Gilbert did not answer whether she believed climate change is real, but she did say the United States is the world leader in clean energy production and reducing emissions.
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