President Trump is set to return to Ohio on Monday to rally voters to the polls and support Republican candidates in the final weeks of the midterm election.
Mr. Trump’s supporters will gather at the Covelli Centre in Youngstown, where he is expected to boost his administration’s agenda, as he recently did in Vandalia, Ohio, in an effort to promote the benefits of data centers.
The trip will be the president’s third time rallying at the venue, having visited there in July 2017 to push his policies during his first term and returning in September 2022 to stump for J.D. Vance’s successful U.S. Senate campaign.
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Mr. Trump’s arrival in Ohio, on Columbus Day, comes just days after he called for a statue of Christopher Columbus to be returned to Columbus City Hall.
“I’m calling for a statue to be returned immediately to where it belongs,” Mr. Trump said on Friday. “We demand that Christopher Columbus be put back into the heart of Columbus, Ohio. We want it back.”
Mayor Andrew Ginther ordered it removed in 2020 during social justice protests against racism.
Mr. Trump, who won Ohio in all three of his presidential races, is in the state to boost the campaign of Republican Sen. Jon Husted, whom he previously thanked for advancing legislation on the impact of data facilities, and is expected to join him at the rally.
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Mr. Husted to the seat in 2024 after Mr. Vance vacated it to join Mr. Trump’s presidential ticket for the White House.
The Ohio GOP senator is now running to win the seat on his own this November.
Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, will face Mr. Husted in the general election. Mr. Brown, a three-term senator, lost his seat in 2024 to Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno.
Mr. Trump is also expected to encourage voters to support former co-leader of the Department of Government Efficiency and billionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in his bid to win the Ohio governor’s seat.
Amy Acton, who won the Democratic nomination for the seat, is the former director of health for outgoing Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine.
However, Mr. DeWine endorsed Mr. Ramaswamy along with his running mate, state Senate President Rob McColley, for lieutenant governor.
Statewide races in Ohio remain tight in the campaign’s closing weeks. A recent Suffolk/USA TODAY Ohio Network poll found both Mr. Brown and Ms. Acton holding a slight edge over their GOP opponents.
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