Tim Ryan served Northeast Ohio well during his 20 years in Congress. But along the way, the star quarterback at John F. Kennedy High School in Warren began to miss his targets.

Ryan tried to run for president in 2020 but dropped out 13 months before the election.

He tried to oust Nancy Pelosi as House Speaker, and she crushed him like a grape.

And in 2022, he ran for a vacant Senate seat in Ohio and lost by nearly seven points to one of the most malicious men in America, now-Vice President JD Vance.

Now, in what may be remembered as a legacy-defining act of selfishness, Ryan is telling Democratic allies he is almost certain to make an 11th-hour entrance into the 2026 campaign for governor of Ohio in next May’s Democratic primary. Ryan has run through numerous self-imposed deadlines r

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