October 29, 2024

Despite Trump's 8-point win in 2016, Biden team sees path to victory in Ohio

Darrel Rowland   | The Columbus Dispatch The Biden campaign outlined its strategy Thursday for winning Ohio, just as a new analysis and a new poll come out saying the Buckeye State is indeed within reach for Democrats this year. “President Trump is deeply vulnerable in Ohio, which in 2019 had its worst year for job creation since the height of the Great Recession,” says the four-page memo from Toni Webb, Ohio director of Biden’s campaign. She said the Biden effort “is setting the standard for how to campaign in a pandemic. We’re mobilizing and engaging supporters by meeting voters where they are, garnering higher and more persuasive phone contact rates than ever before.” But Trump’s re-election campaign is touting not only the president’s stops in the Buckeye State but also its longstanding Ohio presence as a huge advantage over Biden, who first had to win the heavily contest Democratic nomination. “Because Trump Victory was…

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