Electoral College pledges Ohio s votes for Trump in Columbus
Ohio again has gone for President Donald Trump, with all of the Buckeye State s Electoral College votes moving to the losing side of the national ledger for the first time since 1960.
But it was former Vice President Joe Biden, now the president-elect, who was set to cross the 270-vote threshold needed to become the next president after winning several key states.
The Electoral College took on a different look in the Ohio Senate chambers this year as the state continued to report thousands of new daily cases of COVID-19. While officials gathered in small clusters to fist-bump or take selfies before it began, they spread out during the meeting.
After a second consecutive statewide beatdown, the Ohio Democratic Party will go back to the drawing board starting this week.
As state party Chairman David Pepper finishes his tenure, cut short after he chose to resign following the general election, party insiders are weighing a run as his replacement in a state that looks increasingly difficult to win after President Donald Trump prevailed again by more than 8 percentage points.
Some GOP candidates outperformed the president in this year s legislative races on the way to increasing super-majorities in both chambers despite a the nuclear bailout scandal that involves mostly Republicans.
That red wave followed yet another sweep of statewide executive offices in 2018.