COLUMBUS, Ohio — The Associated Press projects that former President Donald Trump has won Ohio and its 17 electoral votes.
In the last two presidential elections, Trump won the state of Ohio. Before 2020, no candidate had been elected president without carrying Ohio since 1960.
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No Republican has ever been elected without winning Ohio. Democrats have won the presidency without winning Ohio only eight times — one of those being Joe Biden in 2020.
Trump and Harris have been traveling across the country campaigning for the last few months in an attempt to gain support and win the presidential vote.
In Harris’ campaign, she has taken the approach of exciting and organizing the diverse Democratic base, especially younger generations, nonwhite voters and women, while convincing moderate Republicans who dislike Trump that they should be comfortable with her in the Oval Office, some policy disagreements notwithstanding. That’s the same formula Biden used in defeating Trump four years ago, flipping traditionally GOP-leaning states like Arizona and Georgia and narrowing the gap in North Carolina.
Trump, meanwhile, appears to bet that his path back to the White House depends mostly on his core supporters, plus enough new support from working- and middle-class voters drawn to his promises of tax breaks.
The two candidates debated each other in September, you can read highlights from the debate here.
