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JoeOtterbein

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Thu Aug 6, 2020, 10:04 PM Aug 2020

Trump takes 2020 pitch to Ohio as Biden gains ground from afar

Source: Politico

CLYDE, Ohio — In 2020, Joe Biden has caught up to President Donald Trump in Ohio without even setting foot in the state.

On Thursday, Trump made his Ohio counterattack — briefly moving his presidential platform to the state itself.

Taking a break from his typical pandemic-focused travel, Trump spent the day jetting around Ohio, holding a fundraiser outside Cleveland, touring a manufacturing plant in Clyde, Ohio, and trumpeting a “Buy American” initiative throughout.

The sudden flurry of Ohio activity is part of a reinvigorated effort to shore up Trump’s standing in the state ahead of November. No Republican has ever captured the presidency without claiming Ohio, and in recent months, the dual crises of a global pandemic and nationwide unrest over racial injustice have suddenly put the state in play for Joe Biden, Trump’s 2020 rival.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/06/trump-travels-ohio-392460

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Trump takes 2020 pitch to Ohio as Biden gains ground from afar (Original Post) JoeOtterbein Aug 2020 OP
He was supposed to go to Clyde, OH LogicFirst Aug 2020 #1
Why didn't he go to Lordstown to showcase his impressive negotiating skills captain queeg Aug 2020 #2

LogicFirst

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1. He was supposed to go to Clyde, OH
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 10:14 PM
Aug 2020

A town of 6,000: home of Whirlpool washers. He's losing in Ohio: desperate.

captain queeg

(10,019 posts)
2. Why didn't he go to Lordstown to showcase his impressive negotiating skills
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 11:11 PM
Aug 2020

That saved the factory? Oh, that’s right, another victory lap being taken just because he said it was a victory. That company that moved in there, how many work for it? 2-3 hundred? Not exactly a replacement for the 1000s of GM jobs that left.

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