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The state of Ohio has an election for an open U.S. Senate seat next year. It is one of the races that will decide control of the Senate, which is now divided 50/50. But Ohio seems less of a swing state than it used to be. President Trump carried the state twice, and many Republican candidates for Senate are campaigning for an audience of one. NPR s Don Gonyea visited Ohio and reports on Trump s outsized influence.
DON GONYEA, BYLINE: We re in the basement meeting room of the Elks Lodge in Newark, Ohio, about 45 minutes outside Columbus, out beyond the suburbs. Bumper stickers on pickup trucks make it clear that this is Trump country. And a meeting of the Licking County Republican Women is just getting underway.
GOP politics in Ohio has changed in the Trump era. And a trip to the state reveals some mixed views among Republicans about the outsized influence Trump retains in the state.
GOP politics in Ohio has changed in the Trump era. And a trip to the state reveals some mixed views among Republicans about the outsized influence Trump retains in the state.