This Ohio county voted for every Democratic presidential candidate from 1988 to 2012 — then went to Trump in 2016. Now, a new crop of local political leaders hope a younger generation of voters will help decide the 2020 election, and the county's future.
, but a new crop of political leaders on both sides of the aisle hopes a younger generation will help decide the 2020 presidential election — and Ashtabula's future.Long-time residents of Ashtabula have seen the county change a lot in recent decades. Christine Seuffert, 70, says she has even experienced a change in her community since Trump won, especially"in the way that people treat each other. The things that they say out loud that they perhaps were always thinking.
Seuffert and her friends have a lot in common but don't all agree on who to support for president. She and Donna Rulla, 74, a retired nurse, both grew up in union families and identified as"John F. Kennedy Democrats." But as the coal business declined in Ashtabula, so did unions that backed Democrats."Whenever Trump talked about getting rid of the alligators in the swamp, that's what sold me," Rulla says.
Davis, 23, says George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police officers resonated with Ashtabula's Black residents. Of the county's population of roughly 100,000, African Americans make up just 3.8 percent.
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