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DeWine’s decisiveness — closing schools before any governor in the country, postponing the state’s March 17 primary election to protect voters — sent his popularity soaring…
Seven weeks into the crisis, DeWine is being guided by health experts while avoiding partisan fissures over stay-at-home orders that have been encouraged by Trump, who hopes a rebounding economy will carry him to reelection. The Ohio governor is the rare Republican official who does not automatically fall in step with Trump, an independence he shares with two other Republican governors, Larry Hogan of Maryland and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, both of whom lead solidly Democratic states where bipartisanship is needed to survive…
He also split decidedly with Trump by encouraging a nearly all-mail primary election Tuesday. While the president has spread the false claim that voting by mail entails “a lot” of fraud, DeWine pushed universal absentee ballots for voters’ safety. Ohio’s secretary of state Monday called the effort a success, with nearly 1.5 million mail ballots cast…
In a poll of Ohio voters released Monday, 35% of Republicans said they were worried that the United States would take too long to loosen restrictions and that the economy would spiral further downward, compared with 14% of Democrats.
The poll, by Baldwin Wallace University, also showed overwhelming support for the governor. Eighty-five percent of respondents approved of his handling of the coronavirus, 89% said they trusted him as a source of information about the outbreak, and 3 out of 4 said he was doing a better job than Trump.
DeWine’s data-driven response to the outbreak has won the support of top Democrats in the state. Many have praised his management style — honed over a lifetime of serving in all levels of government — as a departure from that of the president, who quixotically says to social distance one day and to ignore it the next.
“Mike DeWine’s performance contrasted with Trump’s performance shows you what character and experience mean,” said Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s senior senator and a Democrat. “The mini-Trump governors in Georgia, Texas and Florida, they’re going to do whatever Trump wants. But DeWine’s not going to do that. He cares about his legacy. He cares about the next generation.”
DeWine’s decisiveness — closing schools before any governor in the country, postponing the state’s March 17 primary election to protect voters — sent his popularity soaring…
Seven weeks into the crisis, DeWine is being guided by health experts while avoiding partisan fissures over stay-at-home orders that have been encouraged by Trump, who hopes a rebounding economy will carry him to reelection. The Ohio governor is the rare Republican official who does not automatically fall in step with Trump, an independence he shares with two other Republican governors, Larry Hogan of Maryland and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts, both of whom lead solidly Democratic states where bipartisanship is needed to survive…
He also split decidedly with Trump by encouraging a nearly all-mail primary election Tuesday. While the president has spread the false claim that voting by mail entails “a lot” of fraud, DeWine pushed universal absentee ballots for voters’ safety. Ohio’s secretary of state Monday called the effort a success, with nearly 1.5 million mail ballots cast…
In a poll of Ohio voters released Monday, 35% of Republicans said they were worried that the United States would take too long to loosen restrictions and that the economy would spiral further downward, compared with 14% of Democrats.
The poll, by Baldwin Wallace University, also showed overwhelming support for the governor. Eighty-five percent of respondents approved of his handling of the coronavirus, 89% said they trusted him as a source of information about the outbreak, and 3 out of 4 said he was doing a better job than Trump.
DeWine’s data-driven response to the outbreak has won the support of top Democrats in the state. Many have praised his management style — honed over a lifetime of serving in all levels of government — as a departure from that of the president, who quixotically says to social distance one day and to ignore it the next.
“Mike DeWine’s performance contrasted with Trump’s performance shows you what character and experience mean,” said Sherrod Brown, Ohio’s senior senator and a Democrat. “The mini-Trump governors in Georgia, Texas and Florida, they’re going to do whatever Trump wants. But DeWine’s not going to do that. He cares about his legacy. He cares about the next generation.”