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A fill-in-the-blanks endorsement, sixth in the Ohio batch

This is one of at least six Ohio endorsements posted on October 31, three days before the November 3 general election. The stock phrases are word-for-word the same across the batch. "Keep our Border SECURE, Stop Migrant Crime," "Support our Brave Military/Veterans," and "Defend our always under siege Second Amendment" all appear in the Rulli, Latta, Taylor and Conroy posts the same day. The attack paragraph on the opponent follows the Conroy post's frame: Kulewicz is "opposed to NO TAX ON TIPS," followed by the overtime and Social Security versions of the same slogan. The post was sent at 2:26 PM Eastern (daylight time runs until November 1) on a Saturday, inside business hours whether he was at the White House or Mar-a-Lago.

The text reads as staff work put together from a parts list. Its sentences are complete and long. The résumé facts are precise: "Highly Respected Ohio Auditor of State, and former President of the Ohio Senate." The capitalized policy list could be pasted into any race. The signature block is "President DONALD J. TRUMP," followed by an RNC voter-turnout URL. The house style is all there: "WON BIG in 2016, 2020, and 2024," the epithet "Dumocrat," and the closer in capitals, "HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN!" But these touches are now part of the template, so they show the brand and say nothing about who typed the post. The post never wanders off topic or interrupts itself, and it has no reaction to anything happening that day.

What the template says about the voice it imitates

Even a staff template is built on his psychological signature, and the self-reference comes before the candidate does. The first sentence moves from endorsing Faber to "a place I love and WON BIG," so Ohio's value is defined by his own electoral record. This is a routine way of keeping the audience engaged. Nothing in the post responds to a slight or a defeat.

The structure is pure splitting. Faber gets "Courage and Wisdom," "will continue working tirelessly," and a guarantee that he "WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN." Kulewicz gets every item on the out-group list at once: "massive Tax Increases, Open Borders, Men playing in Women's Sports, and Transgender Mutilization of your Children," and ends up "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous!" Neither man has any shading. The opponent's positions are not drawn from anything specific to an Ohio Attorney General race. They are the national Democratic caricature applied to a state-office candidate. That is devaluation by category: Kulewicz becomes dangerous by being filed under "Dumocrat," with no record of his own cited.

Persuasion devices

• Name-calling and epithet: "Radical Left Dumocrat."
• Fear appeal aimed at parents: "Transgender Mutilization of your Children." The second person makes an abstract policy fight into a threat to the reader's own family.
• Slippery-slope prediction: "if he and the Dumocrats ever got in, all of these things will be terminated." This is offered as certain.
• Transfer and misattribution of office: the tax provisions are federal law. An attorney general has no vote on them, yet the post makes them the main charge against Kulewicz.
• Glittering generalities: the capitalized values list ("LAW AND ORDER," "Election Integrity," "Uphold our Constitution").
• Rule-of-three closer: "Reckless, Radical, and Dangerous."

The order/chaos framing is order-restorer against chaos-bringer. Faber will "Ensure LAW AND ORDER" and "Champion our Law Enforcement." The opponent is tied to "Open Borders" and "Migrant Crime." The archetype is the King handing a mandate to a loyal deputy: the endorsement is "Complete and Total," and its value depends on the endorser's standing.

Language

"Mutilization" is not a standard English word (the intended word is "mutilation"). There is also a small tense mismatch: "if he … ever got in, all of these things will be terminated." Because the text is templated, the coinage most likely comes from a reused phrase bank, so it says little about cognition. Otherwise the syntax is orderly and stays on topic, with no drift or self-interruption.

Risk

Kulewicz is named and called "Dangerous." But the only action the post asks for is electoral: "GET OUT AND VOTE FOR KEITH." It does not use eliminationist language, call for anything beyond voting, or dehumanize the target beyond the partisan epithet. The children-mutilation line is the most inflammatory phrase, and it is aimed at a policy category and names no one.

Claims checked

The biographical claims about Faber are accurate. He has been Ohio Auditor of State since 2019 and was Ohio Senate President from 2013 to 2016. Trump did carry Ohio in all three elections, by about 8 points in 2016 and 2020 and about 11 in 2024. "NO TAX ON SOCIAL SECURITY" overstates the 2025 law, which created a temporary extra deduction for seniors and left the tax rules on benefits themselves unchanged. The claims about Kulewicz's positions name no source and are mostly about federal policies outside an AG's remit. The claim that the tax provisions "will be terminated" is a forecast that can't be checked.

Fact Verification

Who he is: Kulewicz is a Columbus-area litigator and Upper Arlington city council member. He won the May 2026 Democratic primary over Elliot Forhan and faces Republican Auditor Keith Faber on November 3, 2026.

What his platform covers: His campaign site, his party profile and a July 2026 Stateside candidate profile all describe a consumer-protection and anti-corruption platform. That means price-fixing, scams, robocallers, Medicaid and nursing-home fraud, wage theft, utility rates and government transparency. None of them mention federal tax policy, the tip, overtime or senior deductions, tax increases, the border, or transgender issues. I also found no statement from him on the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA, the 2025 law that created those deductions) or its tax provisions.

Searches for his name alongside 'no tax on tips', 'overtime', 'Social Security' and 'tax increases' returned nothing except Trump's own post. Dayton Daily News, WTOV, the Marietta Times debate coverage and WVXU's primary preview don't address these issues either. The 'tax the rich' remark in the WVXU primary preview is attributed to his primary rival Forhan, not to Kulewicz. Kulewicz joined the Upper Arlington council in 2020, so the city's 2014 income-tax increase predates his service. I found no tax-increase vote of his.

Open borders: The record contradicts this. In October 2026 coverage (Ohio Capital Journal via Yahoo, Dayton Daily News, WKBN and WFMJ debate reports), Kulewicz called himself '100% for' lawful immigration. He said 'to the extent that federal law requires assistance, by all means we should assist' federal immigration enforcement, and that 'it's important to enforce every law, not just immigration laws.' He would put discretionary resources toward state law. That is a priorities difference, not an open-borders position.

The tax charges: An Ohio attorney general has no vote on federal tax law. The charge matches a national pattern that FactCheck.org (October 8, 2026) called misleading. GOP ads described Democrats who voted against or criticized the OBBBA as opposing its tip, overtime and senior provisions. In fact, many of those Democrats back the provisions and objected to the high-income tax cuts and the Medicaid and SNAP cuts. Kulewicz isn't even among those who voted on the bill.

Why mostly false rather than false: The open-borders charge is contradicted by his own words. The tax charges are unsupported but not directly disproven, since he appears never to have spoken on these federal provisions at all. | | "If Democrats got in, all of these tax provisions will be terminated" | Mostly False | This is a prediction, and the post was analyzed the same day, so it can't be graded on outcomes. The facts in force on the post date still cut against it in three ways.

The provisions already end under Trump's own law. The IRS fact sheet and a House FAQ show that the tip deduction (up to $25,000), the overtime-premium deduction (up to $12,500, or $25,000 joint) and the $6,000 senior deduction run only for tax years 2025 through 2028. They expire after 2028 unless Congress extends them, whoever wins. FindLaw and other tax explainers say the same.

The claim also overstates what exists. There is no 'no tax on Social Security' provision. The senior deduction is age-based and phases out above $75,000 MAGI ($150,000 joint). FactCheck.org (October 8, 2026) notes the law cut but didn't eliminate these taxes, and cites the Tax Policy Center's finding that the senior deduction helps fewer than half of older adults.

No Democratic plan to repeal them turned up. FactCheck.org's review of 2026 GOP ads found no Democrat proposing to repeal the tip, overtime or senior deductions. The candidates attacked (Talarico, Cooper, Pappas, Brooks) said they support them. Democrats have instead introduced bills to make or widen them permanently: Pappas co-sponsored a bipartisan bill to permanently cut taxes on tips, Rep. Susie Lee co-sponsors the TIPS Act, Gallego has a bill to widen the tip deduction, and the 'You Earned It, You Keep It Act' would permanently end federal tax on Social Security benefits. Democrats did vote against the OBBBA as a whole, and their platform calls for higher taxes on top earners and corporations. So a Democratic Congress might rewrite parts of the law, but nothing shows these provisions are targeted.

The office in question can't do it. The post endorses a state attorney general candidate, and an Ohio AG has no power over federal income tax law, so 'if he got in' can't end these deductions.

The prediction can't be fully disproven. But its premise that Democrats are what threatens these provisions is contradicted by the scheduled 2028 sunset and the available record of Democratic positions. |

Overall Veracity: 58%