With less than six weeks left until Election Day, ​Biden for President​ Ohio is in a strong position to win the Buckeye State and send Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House.

As President, Joe Biden will restore the soul of our nation, rebuild the backbone of our economy — the middle class — and unite our country. President Trump has failed Ohioans. From his mismanagement of the COVID-19 crisis and its economic fallout, to his failure to save the jobs promised at Lordstown, President Trump has made Ohioans' lives worse.

Ohio is ready for a real leader — and Joe Biden is the right candidate with the right message for voters and the right vision for the future. He cares about issues important to voters, like stopping the spread of COVID, the economy, and health care.

Across the state, our campaign is running a voter contact program focused on quality conversations with voters across Ohio to meet voters where they are and earn every vote.

Ohioans want a president who will build back our economy better than before.

● Biden for President Ohio​ is focusing on the ​wider strategy​ of leaning into the stark contrast between Trump’s economic failures and broken promises across the state.

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  ●  The Biden campaign has ​repeatedly​ ​taken Trump to task​ for his ​broken promises​ to Ohio workers. After pledging to bring back manufacturing, ​thousands of jobs​ at critical plants like General Motors in Lordstown have been lost on Trump’s watch. And the ​campaign continues to slam Trump​ for calling for a boycott of Akron-based Goodyear, which employs more than 3,000 Ohio workers.
  
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  ●  Trump has resumed ​an old lie​ about his influence on the auto industry, earning him ​Four Pinocchios from The Washington Post​ as well as embarrassing ​fact checks​ and ​headlines across Ohio​. The Biden campaign continues to ​lift the voices of real Ohio workers​, reminding Ohio voters that Joe Biden will actually deliver on creating millions of manufacturing and innovation jobs across the country.
  
  Joe Biden is the leader Ohio needs, and we’re strongly positioned for victory
  

• ●  Joe Biden is best suited to lead Ohio forward. Joe has a plan to create good-paying, union jobs in Toledo and the Mahoning Valley communities that have been directly hurt by President Trump’s broken promises and tax policies that helped corporations and the wealthy over working Ohioans. Joe’s plan will help us build back better than we were before.
  
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  ●  President Trump is deeply vulnerable in Ohio, which in 2019 had its ​worst year for job creation​ since the height of the Great Recession. In 2018, Senator ​Sherrod Brown saw a resounding victory​ and Ohio House Democrats flipped ​five suburban, highly-gerrymandered districts​. According to Ohio Republican operatives, Trump’s ad strategy indicates “a ​campaign that is worried about potentially losing this state​.”
  
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  ●  Ohioans know Joe Biden and trust him to have the backs of workers, and believe that he shares their values and delivers on his promises.
  
  We aren’t taking a single Ohioan for granted
  

• ●  In 2016, Trump's strength came from peeling traditional Democratic votes away in working class areas and Ohio's smaller counties. Since then, ​Trump has deeply failed these voters​ – by telling folks who worked at Lordstown that he would protect their jobs and ​breaking that promise​, by ​telling Americans to boycott​ one of Ohio’s great companies, Goodyear.
  
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    ○  Trump said he would bring back manufacturing jobs and failed. ​Ohio has lost 12,500 jobs​ – including 6,000 manufacturing jobs – from January 2019 to January 2020.
    
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    ○  Trump said he would help our small cities and failed. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, ​Ohio cities have been struggling​ to provide basic services because Trump prioritized aid for big corporations and wealthy interests over Ohioans.
    
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  ●  The Biden campaign has focused its paid broadcast media effort for the last month, directly at key constituencies in Toledo and Youngstown. For the last month,​ Biden for President​ has been up on TV in Ohio, and Trump has not. That includes powerful ads like: ​Real Plans​, ​What Happens Now, ​Backbone​, ​Dignity​, ​Measure​, ​Totally Negligent, and ​Engine​.
  

○ The Biden campaign responded immediately to ​Trump’s call to boycott Goodyear​, taking him to task with an ad tailored to the Mahoning Valley.

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• ●  We have hundreds of volunteer leaders that have hosted their own events and trained their own teams of volunteers to expand our voter contact rates, and thousands of relational volunteers that are organizing their personal networks around the state.
  
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  ●  We are reaching voters in unique ways to engage with their communities: using earned media and ​Soapboxx digital campaigns​ to lift up stories of working Ohioans who feel betrayed by Donald Trump, creative virtual events like our ​Labor Day Parade​ and ​Youth Bus Tour​, and inviting in surrogates like ​Doug Emhoff ​to rally our supporters.
  
  We are building a strong and diverse coalition
  

• ●  Our Ohio campaign team is among the most experienced and diverse campaigns in Ohio history. Of the senior team, 73% are women and 41% are people of color, and 100% Ohioans who have deep roots in the state.
  
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  ●  We have developed a broad and diverse Coalitions team that includes 22 constituency groups focused on: young voters, women, faith leaders, LGBTQ+, rural voters, African Americans, blue-collar voters (or union members), Latinx, Veterans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, seniors, and more.
  
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    ○  We’re energizing and mobilizing ​key​ c​ onstituencies​ across the state. Many constituency groups host weekly or biweekly meetings and weekly phone banks.
    
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    ○  Our dozens of coalitions events have drawn an average attendance of over 6,000.
    
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We are meeting the moment with effective organizing

● Youngstown native Jimmy Dahman, who led Mayor Pete Buttigieg’s early state organizing and ushered in his Iowa Caucus victory, is writing the winning playbook for campaigning during a pandemic. In the last month alone, ​Biden for President Ohio​ has:

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  ○  Had around 450,000 conversations with voters
  
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  ○  Hosted hundreds of events
  
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  ○  Secured thousands of volunteers
  
  
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• We are helping voters understand how to cast their ballot
  

• ●  We are also engaging in a large-scale voter education campaign. ​IWillVote.com/OH includes resources to ensure that Ohioans know how and when to cast their ballot. We’ll soon launch a robust digital, early vote program featuring voters and elected officials.
  
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  ●  Our campaign has launched a sophisticated voter protection program of lawyers and volunteers fighting to ensure every eligible Ohioan can vote — and that their vote counts.
  
  Where we go from here
  

• ●  Vote-by-mail requests are up in Ohio. According to ​national political data firm TargetSmart’s estimates​, registered Democrats requested 50% of Ohio absentee ballots, while registered Republicans requested just 38%.
  
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  ●  New Ohio Secretary of State data​ shows that absentee ballot applications have already eclipsed 2016’s total requests. With over 1.7 million ballot applications already submitted, Democrats continue to outpace Republicans in ballot requests.
  
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  ●  Our campaign is setting the standard for how to campaign in a pandemic. We’re mobilizing and engaging supporters by meeting voters where they are, garnering higher and more persuasive phone contact rates than ever before.
  
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  ●  We’ll continue using every tool digital, organizing and media engagement tool at our disposal to persuade and mobilize every eligible voter.
  

There are 40 days until November 3rd and​ Biden for President ​Ohio is going to use every single one of them to persuade and mobilize to cast their ballot for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.