Youngstown helped Trump win Ohio. Can Republicans hold it?

Gene J. Puskar

Posted Sunday, October 11, 2026 5:30 am

Anna Staver (via Cleveland.com)

In this March 14, 2016 photo, a supporter of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds a sign during a plane-side rally at Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport in Vienna, Ohio. It was working-class voters who bucked the area's history as a Democratic stronghold and backed Donald Trump in 2016, helping him win the White House with promises to put American workers first and bring back disappearing manufacturing and steel jobs. Whether they stick with him after this week's GM news and other signs that the economy could be cooling will determine Trump's political future. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- President Donald Trump returns to Ohio on Monday to ask the voters who carried the state for him three times to show up once more.

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