Column: What will Biden presidency mean for Ohio pols?
Thomas Suddes
More than 10,000 Ohioans died during Donald Trump’s presidency thanks in part to his administration’s incompetence in fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. Were anyone to draw up a profit-and-loss statement analyzing how Ohio fared during America’s 45th presidency, that’d be the single greatest loss the Buckeye State suffered.
On the profit side, ask the many Ohioans who remain fans of the former president. More than 2.8 million Ohioans voted for the Trump-Pence ticket in 2016, more than 3.1 million in 2020. Evidently, regardless of what Donald Trump was or wasn’t doing for Ohio, our 45th president said things a majority of Ohio’s voters liked to hear, even things some might be afraid to say.