CLEVELAND, Ohio-In spite of breaking a record relative to the number of ballots casts, Ohio failed to deliver for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden on election day on Tuesday, even after the former vice president visited Cleveland on the eve of the Nov. 3 presidential election and rallied voters at Burke Lakefront Airport in the downtown area of the city, his second visit to the largely Black major American city since it hosted the First Presidential Debate on Sept. 29.

Biden lost the state of Ohio Tuesday night by eight points, the same margin Democrat Hillary Clinton lost to President Donald Trump in 2016, Trump the Republican nominee at the time who now seeks reelection for a second four-year term, a yet-to-be-determined presidential race and an all out war between the Republicans and Democrats.

Sources said the state has lost its appeal and that neither Trump nor Biden put any serious money on the ground for an Ohio campaign.

Others say the Democrats simply did not deliver.

Still others say that both campaigns brought some excitement during a deadly coronavirus pandemic that continues to storm both the U.S. and the world.

No Democratic president since 1960 and no Republican president of remembrance has won the White House without first winning Ohio.

Ohio had 18 electoral votes up for grabs, and Trump took them all via the winner-take-all mandate that is applicable in some but not all states.

Nonetheless, the state of Ohio broke a record in 2020 with more than 5.8 million people casting ballots, according to data from the Ohio secretary of state’s website, a figure just above that of 2008 when 5.77 million people voted in the an election that catapulted Barack Obama, the nation's first Black president, to the White House.

Some  5.63 million Ohioans voted in 2012 when Obama won reelection, and nearly 5.61 million Ohioans voted when Trump won the presidency over then opponent Hillary Clinton in 2016, Clinton winning the popular vote but losing the electoral college.

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