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Ohio is suddenly a 2020 battleground

The Hill logoPresident Trump’s campaign is spending money to defend Ohio, an unexpected development that underscores the president’s polling weakness amid the coronavirus pandemic and civil unrest wracking the country.

Trump won Ohio by 8 points in 2016, and Democrats failed to flip any House seats there in 2018, which was an otherwise big year for Democrats nationwide.

Democrats had all but written off the state heading into the 2020 cycle, believing the rightward drift had taken the former presidential bellwether off the board as a battleground state. Continue reading.

Trump Ally Purged 235,000 Voters In Ohio

Ohio is purging 235,000 voter registrations on Friday despite evidence that thousands of the registrations flagged for deletion were eligible to vote.

Ohio has historically been a key swing state in presidential elections, going back and forth between the two parties. Trump won it in 2016, while President Barack Obama won it in 2012 and 2008.

In 2018, Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) won reelection there, but so did Gov. Mike DeWine (R), highlighting the fact that neither party has a lock on the state’s votes.

View the complete September 7 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.