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The Guardian - US
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Chris McGreal in Dayton, Ohio

Ohio’s working class felt deserted by Democrats. Can Biden win them back?

Joe Biden attends the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility in New Albany, Ohio, in September 2022.
Joe Biden attends the groundbreaking of the new Intel semiconductor manufacturing facility in New Albany, Ohio, in September 2022. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters

David Cox is trying to persuade his members that Joe Biden has done more for working-class Americans than any US president in his decades as a construction worker and union organiser in western Ohio.

But Cox is not sure they really want to hear it, in a state where the Democratic brand was in decline long before Donald Trump snatched victory in Ohio in 2016 and then increased his support four years later.

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