Congressional primaries: Cox, Davidson declared winners

Mar. 19—U.S. Rep. Warren Davidson, R-Troy, fended off a primary challenger Tuesday and Amy Cox was declared winner in the 10th Congressional District Democratic primary, according to the Associated Press.

10th District

The four Democrats in the 10th District race are Cox, David Esrati, Joseph S. Kuzniar and Tony Pombo.

The winner will challenge U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Dayton, who is unopposed in the GOP primary, in November.

Esrati of Dayton owns The Next Wave Marketing Innovation and operates a news blog. He previously unsuccessfully challenged Turner for the Congressional seat in 2022.

Cox is endorsed by the Montgomery County Democratic Party and works as an urban agriculture scientist at Guided by Mushrooms in New Lebanon. She previously ran unsuccessfully against Republican state Rep. Rodney Creech for the 43rd district seat in the Ohio House in 2022. She does not live in the 10th District.

Kuzniar of Enon is a retired lieutenant colonel of the U.S. Air Force who is running for public office for the first time.

Pombo of Beavercreek is a computer scientist, also running for office for the first time.

Ohio's 10th district of Congress includes Montgomery and Greene Counties, as well as part of Clark County.

District 8

In the District 8 Republican primary Davidson faced Kay Rogers, former Butler County auditor who pleaded guilty to bank and mail fraud in 2008.

Vanessa Enoch is leading in the District 8 Democratic primary, with 65.65%, according to partial results from the Ohio Secretary of State's office.

The Democratic primary candidates are Enoch, David Gelb and Nathaniel Hawkins. Gelb has 14.5% and Hawkins has 19.85%.

Enochlost election races to Davidson in 2018, 2020 and 2022.

District 8 includes Butler, Preble, Darke, and parts of Miami and Hamilton counties

District 15

Adam Miller is leading in the District 15 Democratic primary, with 73.09%, according to partial results from early voting from the Ohio Secretary of State's office.

In District 15 Democrats Miller and Zerqa Z. Abid are running for the nomination to challenge U.S. Rep. Mike Carey, R-Columbus, who is unopposed in the GOP primary, in November. Abid has 26.91%.

The district includes all or part of six counties, including Franklin, Madison, Clark, Fayette, Miami and Shelby.

Other districts

District 1, which includes Warren County, has only one Republican and one Democrat on the March ballot, meaning both of them will advance and square off in the November election. The Democrat is incumbent U.S. Rep. Greg Landsman, D. Cincinnati, while the Republican challenger is Orlando Sonza.

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