COLUMBUS (AP) — U.S. Sen. Rob Portman continued to face intense pressure back home Tuesday to oppose the Senate’s GOP health care bill.

The Ohio Republican has been subjected to baseball game flyovers, demonstrations, television ads and a verbal onslaught by GOP Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who views the bill’s Medicaid cuts as harmful to America’s most vulnerable citizens.

On Tuesday afternoon Portman issued a statement in which he said: “As I’ve said many times, the Affordable Care Act is not working for many Ohio families and small businesses. I am committed to creating a better health care system that lowers the cost of coverage, provides access to quality care, and protects the most vulnerable in our society. The Senate draft before us includes some promising changes to reduce premiums in the individual insurance market, but I continue to have real concerns about the Medicaid policies in this bill, especially those that impact drug treatment at a time when Ohio is facing an opioid epidemic.

“For months, I have engaged with my colleagues on solutions that I believe are necessary to ensure that we improve our health care system and better combat this opioid epidemic. Unfortunately, the Senate draft falls short and therefore I cannot support it in its current form. In the days and weeks ahead, I’m committed to continue talking with my colleagues about how we can fix the serious problems in our health care system while protecting Ohio’s most vulnerable citizens.”

Vice President Mike Pence planned to push back Wednesday with a visit to Cleveland in support of the bill. That catches Portman, who represents a closely divided battleground state, in the crosshairs of the high-stakes intraparty fight.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell had wanted to bring the bill to a vote before the July 4th recess but he announced Tuesday afternoon he would delay a vote while GOP leadership works toward getting enough votes.

Kasich directed pointed comments against the bill during a joint appearance in Washington on Tuesday with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, calling it “unacceptable.”

“No one should think that I have any joy in being able to work against the leadership of my own party on this legislation,” Kasich said.

“But maybe JFK said it best: Sometimes my party asks too much,” the governor said in paraphrasing the late president.

Kasich said he’s shared his concerns with Portman “a million times.”

“I’ve told him how important I think all this is,” Kasich said. “I don’t cast his vote. I don’t get any sense.”

UltraViolet, a women’s advocacy organization, also hoped to sway Portman’s vote — with a vigil at his Cleveland office on Tuesday and a flyover at Friday night’s Cleveland Indians game that featured a banner reading, “Senator Portman: Trumpcare Hurts Women.”

Portman was also targeted in a seven-figure broadcast and digital ad buy by the Association for Community Affiliated Plans, a trade association for Medicaid-affiliated health plans. The spots urged Portman and senators from Arizona, Colorado, Nevada and West Virginia to protect Medicaid, contending program cuts in the Senate bill would jeopardize 87,000 Ohio jobs.

Portman is under pressure from labor unions, as well. The Ohio AFL-CIO staged a Statehouse rally Tuesday against the Senate bill, urging Portman to stop “playing games” with health care as they spun a “Wheel of Misfortune” landing on different health care scenarios they said would be affected.

In their defense of the bill, Pence and President Donald Trump have been sure to feature Ohio residents in a series of events featuring “victims” of the Obamacare law targeted by congressional health care changes.