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Where Things Stand: How Will Ohio Swing Post-Trump?

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US Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), speaks to reporters outside Wyoming High School in Wyoming, Ohio, on June 22, 2017, before the funeral for Otto Warmbier. Warmbier an American university student who, while visiting No... US Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), speaks to reporters outside Wyoming High School in Wyoming, Ohio, on June 22, 2017, before the funeral for Otto Warmbier. Warmbier an American university student who, while visiting North Korea as a tourist in January 2016, was arrested and sentenced to 15 years of hard labor after being accused of stealing a propaganda poster. Warmbier died on June 19, 2017 six days after retuning to the United States in a coma. / AFP PHOTO / Paul Vernon (Photo credit should read PAUL VERNON/AFP via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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January 25, 2021 1:09 p.m.

News of Sen. Rob Portman’s (R-OH) retirement could be grounds for the latest reassessment of the historically-purple-but-lately-pretty-red state.

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