Joe Biden to visit Cleveland, Ohio on the eve of the Nov. 3 presidential election, his second trip to Cleveland since the First Presidential Debate on Sept. 29....Ohio remains a pivotal state for presidential elections....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's Black digital news leaders

 

Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden

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By Kathy Wray Coleman, associate publisher, editor in chief. Coleman trained for 17 years as a reporter with the Call and Post Newspaper and is an investigative and political reporter with a background in legal and scientific reporting. She is also a former 15-year public school biology teacher.

CLEVELAND, Ohio-Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden will visit Cleveland on the eve of the Nov 3 presidential election, his second visit to the largely Black major American city since it hosted the First Presidential Debate on Sept. 29 and a visit that comes behind that of his vice presidential running mate, Kamala Harris, the only Black female U.S. senator and the only Black woman to seek the 2020 Democratic nomination for president.

Also a former California attorney general and the first Black woman to compete on a major party presidential ticket in America, Harris campaigned in Cleveland on Oct. 24 with 11th Congressional District Congresswoman Marcia L Fudge by her side, Fudge a former chair of the Congressional Black Caucus whose majority Black congressional district includes Cleveland, mainly its largely Black east side.

Biden's visit to Northern Ohio on Monday comes as a heightened coronavirus pandemic sweeps the country.

While specifics on the former vice president's visit are forthcoming, his campaign said in a press release that Biden "will address the crises facing the country and winning the battle for the soul of the nation."

The pandemic that has plagued the United States since early March continues to break records too, the U.S. breaking a world record Friday for infections with more than 100,000 confirmed cases in a single 24-hour period at 100, 233 cases, a CNN report says.

Biden leads over the president in national polls and in nearly all of the swing states.

Those national polls show him leading by eight points, 52-44 percent, a decrease from 10 points in October where he topped the president 53-43 percent.

He leads Trump by five percentage points in Ohio, and is leading in neighboring Pennsylvania, and in Florida and Iowa, a recent Quinnipiac University poll reveals.

All four states, including Ohio, are swing states Trump won in 2016, states also that Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president and Trump's predecessor, won in 2008, and again in 2012 when he won reelection.

Ohio has 18 electoral votes up for grabs and some 2.3 million Ohioans have already voted, either by mail or early in person.

Early voters in Ohio are among some 96 million Americans who have also voted early.

No Democratic president and no Republican president of remembrance has won the White House without first winning Ohio.

Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, the most read Black digital newspaper in Ohio and in the Midwest. Tel: (216) 659-0473. Email: editor@clevelandurbannews.com. We interviewed former president Barack Obama one-on-one when he was campaigning for president. As to the Obama interview. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE AT CLEVELAND URBAN NEWS.COM, OHIO'S LEADER IN BLACK DIGITAL NEWS.