"President Obama has been attacking relentlessly. In 2008 he said that if you're out of fresh ideas you use stale tactics against your opponent - you try and make your opponent unacceptable and that's what he is trying to do."
Rob Portman is an American attorney and politician who served as a United States senator from Ohio from 2011 to 2023. Before the Senate, he served in the U.S. House of Representatives and held cabinet-level roles including U.S. trade representative and director of the Office of Management and Budget. Portman is associated with center-right Republican policy on fiscal and trade issues.