President Donald Trump's political rise quickly transformed Ohio from a perennial swing state to a solid red bastion, with Republicans now i
Emily Singer at Daily Kos:
President Donald Trump's political rise quickly transformed Ohio from a perennial swing state to a solid red bastion, with Republicans now in full control of state government. But Trump's disastrous second term may finally change Democrats fortunes in the Buckeye State. A poll released this week by the left-leaning firm EMC Research shows Democrats not just leading both Ohio's gubernatorial and Senate elections but also surpassing the 50% mark—an important indicator for the ultimate outcome of the races. Democratic candidate Amy Acton, who is running unopposed for the gubernatorial nomination, leads Republican front-runner Vivek Ramaswamy by a whopping 10 percentage points, 53% to 43%, among likely voters. Meanwhile, former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown leads incumbent GOP Sen. Jon Husted, 51% to 47%. And that result came before Husted made a boneheaded comment about how poor people are, in his eyes, basically stupid.
Ohio has been a reliably Republican state in the Trump era, but the GOP could be in big trouble in the Senate and Gubernatorial races, per a recent poll from EMC Research conducted between February 10th and 22nd.
