If he wants to win a second term?
He NEEDS Ohio…..
Just 39 percent of Ohio adults approve of President Donald Trump’s job performance, with almost three times more Ohioans telling Baldwin Wallace University pollsters that they they “strongly disapprove” of Trump’s handling of the presidency than those who said they “strongly approve.”
The poll of 1,361 Ohio adults taken from March 1-15 ended several days before Trump stirred up an Ohio controversy by blaming local union officials for the recent closure of General Motors’ Lordstown plant. Trump repeated those criticisms in last week’s visit to a Lima tank factory, where he also assailed the late Sen. John McCain’s voting record and complained that he wasn’t thanked for McCain’s funeral.
Even before those outbursts, 35.5 percent of those surveyed said they “strongly disapprove” of Trump. Sixty-seven percent of self-described Democrats provided that answer, as did 33 percent of men and 37 percent of women. Sixty-one percent of those who responded to the survey said they disapproved of Trump to some degree.
Far fewer of those surveyed – slightly over 12 percent – said they “strongly approve” of how Trump has handled the presidency. Thirty-one percent of Republicans who responded to the survey were in that camp, as were 15 percent of men and 10 percent of women. The poll has a 3.4 percent margin of error.
The latest nationwide polls compiled by FiveThirtyEight show Trump with a 42 percent approval rating. Every other president since Harry Truman had a higher approval level at this point in his presidency, the website’s statistics indicate, except for Ronald Reagan, whose approval rating was 41.1 percent…..
image…2016 Trump Ohio rally….washpost.com
Although Donald Trump has broken many historical patterns, history is very strongly against a Republican winning the country while losing Ohio. It hasn’t happened since the GOP was founded in 1854.
The five times since 1854 that Ohio’s Electors chose someone other the national winner were for Republican candidates: Jobn Frémont 1856, James G. Blaine 1884, Benj. Harrison 1892, Thos Dewey 1944 & Richard Nixon in 1960.
The last and only time Ohio voted for a Democratic candidate who lost the Presidency was 1848 (Lewis Cass against Zachary Taylor, Whig}. Maybe Trump hopes to break a 152-year pattern in 2020, as George H.W. Bush did in 1988 (as the first sitting VP to win the Presidency since Martin Van Buren in 1836).
However, Ohio also voted for two losing Whigs between her admission in 1803 and 1854 (Henry Clay 1844 & Wm Henry Harrison 1836) and one losing anti-Jacksonian D-R (Clay in 1824).
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_elections_in_Ohio
He SHOULD be worried about his numbers in Ohio and Pennsylvania two states Obama carried by deserted Hillary…
The margin was not very big for Trump….
He has NOT moved back to the middle and operates like he can duplicate his win from 2016….
Time does not repeat itself….