Politics Chat: How Mike DeWine Got Under Donald Trump's Skin

91.7 WVXU | By Howard Wilkinson

Published November 20, 2020 at 8:00 AM EST

DeWine greets President Trump at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton in Aug. 2019.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine went on CNN last weekend and said that Joe Biden should be considered the president-elect. That got under Donald Trump's skin to the point that the next day, he was tweeting out that Ohio's gubernatorial election could get interesting, implying that DeWine might face a GOP primary challenger in 2022.

And there is one Trump loyalist in Ohio who seems ready to go that - former congressman Jim Renacci.

WVXU Senior Political Analyst Howard Wilkinson talked with News Director Maryanne Zeleznik about just how big a threat Renacci might be to DeWine's chances for a second term as governor.

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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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