Cleveland, OH
Kamala Harris could jump-start Democratic turnout in Ohio’s largest cities. Why is she still expected to lose the Buckeye State?
COLUMBUS, Ohio—Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president, won Ohio in both 2008 and 2012 with the help of minority and younger voters in the state’s largest cities.
This year, Vice President Kamala Harris is aiming to become the nation’s second Black president — and the first woman president. But even if Harris can generate the same voter enthusiasm that got Obama elected here, few think she has a shot of winning Ohio in November.