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Politics Chat: Will Ohio Primary Help Decide A Biden-Sanders Battle?

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson
Published March 6, 2020 at 8:00 AM EST
former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a Democratic presidential primary debate, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Manchester, N.H.
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former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in a Democratic presidential primary debate, Friday, Feb. 7, 2020, in Manchester, N.H.

Ohio's presidential primary on March 17 was once expected to be a dull affair, with little impact on the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.

But now, with former Vice President Joe Biden surging on Super Tuesday and turning this into a Biden-Bernie Sanders stand-off, Ohio's primary may play a significant role.

Howard Wilkinson, WVXU's senior political analyst, told News Director Maryanne Zeleznik that it is likely that Biden will have an advantage over Sanders among Ohio's Democratic voters, who are somewhat older and more centrist than the nation as a whole. Four years ago, Sanders was defeated by Hillary Clinton in the primary.

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Howard Wilkinson
Howard Wilkinson joined the WVXU News Team after 30 years of covering local and state politics for The Cincinnati Enquirer. A native of Dayton, Ohio, Wilkinson has covered every Ohio governor’s race since 1974 as well as 12 presidential nominating conventions. His streak continued by covering both the 2012 Republican and Democratic conventions for 91.7 WVXU. Along with politics, Wilkinson also covered the 2001 Cincinnati race riots; the Lucasville Prison riot in 1993; the Air Canada plane crash at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport in 1983; and the 1997 Ohio River flooding. The Cincinnati Reds are his passion. "I've been listening to WVXU and public radio for many years, and I couldn't be more pleased at the opportunity to be part of it,” he says.
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