Republican Gov. Mike DeWine extended Ohio’s first-in-the-nation ballot deadline to allow Democrats until September to nominate their presidential candidate this year, solving a filing date technicality that had seemed to threaten President Joe Biden’s Buckeye State ballot status. Still, Democratic power brokers have proceeded as though the Democratic National Committee has only until Aug. 7 to formalize their general election ticket.
So even though Biden is polling worse than any Democratic presidential candidate — much less, an incumbent — against a Republican challenger in 20 years, the Democratic Party seems slated to ignore the majority of its voters who wish to replace the president in a fall fight against former President Donald Trump, the 2024 Republican nominee.
