ELECTION/JOE BIDEN/POLLS/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Joe Biden is the only Democratic White House contender leading President Donald Trump in a hypothetical Ohio general election matchup, according to a poll released Thursday [7-25-19]. Registered voters in Ohio surveyed by Quinnipiac University favor Biden over Trump by a margin of 50-42 percent, while other major Democratic candidates — including Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, California Sen. Kamala Harris, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg — remain virtually tied with the president. Trump captured 51.3 percent of the vote in Ohio and its 18 electoral votes in the 2016 presidential election, while Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton garnered only 43.2 percent of the battleground state’s voters. Former President Barack Obama won the state, long considered a bellwether in American presidential politics, in 2008 and 2012. Biden remains atop the expansive Democratic field in Ohio, with the support of 31 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning voters.”
–Quint Forgey, “Biden leads Trump in hypothetical Ohio matchup, poll shows,” Politico, July 25, 2019 7:31 am