Politics Chat: How Democrats Can Win Back Ohio From Trump In 2020

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson

Published January 31, 2020 at 8:00 AM EST

From left, Democratic presidential candidates businessman Tom Steyer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, former South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, and Sen. Amy Klobuchar during a January primary debate in Iowa.

Earlier this week, Ohio Democratic Party chairman David Pepper and some Democratic candidates for Congress and the state legislature traveled to the sometimes forgotten southern Ohio small cities of Chillicothe, Ironton and Marietta. They were there because in 2016, Hillary Clinton was not.

They were laying the groundwork for whoever the Democratic presidential candidate turns out to be to mount a campaign in southeast and eastern Ohio.

WVXU Senior Political Analyst Howard Wilkinson talked with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik about the tour and its implications for the 2020 presidential campaign in Ohio.

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Howard Wilkinson

Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.

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