COLUMBUS – Ohioans are again getting plenty of attention in the presidential race’s final weeks.
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After a lull last month, high-level campaigning has accelerated in the perennial battleground state.
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Gov. Mike Pence, Republican candidate for vice president, will appear at the Greater Columbus Convention Center, Short North Ballroom, 400 N. High Street, Monday. Doors open at 1 p.m.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine will return to Ohio to attend a canvass kick-off event at the Ohio Together Coordinated office, 1640 W. Lane Avenue, Upper Arlington, 11:45 a.m. Monday, and an early-voting rally in Springfield.
Republican Donald Trump campaigned here Thursday, while President Barack Obama and former president Bill Clinton followed Hillary Clinton’s return to the state earlier in the week with two Ohio scheduled campaign stops each.
The state’s role this year shapes up to be potential spoiler for Trump’s chances of reaching 270 electoral votes. While Clinton appears to have paths to the total needed for election without Ohio, the state’s 20 votes are considered crucial for Trump.
Polls also indicate Ohio is one of only a handful of states that are tossups with less than a month to go.
With three weeks to go before Election Day, Trump’s campaign announced Saturday that it is cutting ties with the Ohio Republican Party chairman Matt Borges.
The campaign’s Ohio state director, Bob Paduchik, reportedly slammed Borges in a letter Saturday to the state party’s central committee for wavering in his support for Trump.
Paduchik said Borges “no longer has any affiliation with the Trump-Pence campaign” and the nominee is “very disappointed in Matt’s duplicity.”