For 40 years, Mike DeWine rose steadily if blandly up the ladder of Ohio politics, finally landing his dream job as governor. He took office last year as a familiar figure in the state, not because of any indelible political identify, but because, at 72, he had been around forever.But the coronavirus
For 40 years, Mike DeWine rose steadily if blandly up the ladder of Ohio politics, finally landing his dream job as governor. He took office last year as a familiar figure in the state, not because of any indelible political identify, but because, at 72, he had been around forever.
Seven weeks into the crisis, DeWine is being guided by health experts while avoiding partisan fissures over stay-at-home orders that have been encouraged by Trump, who hopes a rebounding economy will carry him to reelection. Beginning May 4, the governor said, manufacturers, offices and construction businesses can reopen, followed May 12 by retail stores and service businesses. Masks will be required indoors in workplaces as well as 6 feet of separation. “No mask, no work, no service, no exceptions,” DeWine said.
With the Democratic presidential race effectively over, the most watched races of Ohio’s rescheduled primary are two Democratic congressional contests: one near Cincinnati for a Republican-held seat that Democrats see as a pickup opportunity, and one in Columbus, where Rep. Joyce Beatty faces a challenge from her left by Morgan Harper, who is backed by national progressive groups.
The poll, by Baldwin Wallace University, also showed overwhelming support for the governor. Eighty-five percent of respondents approved of his handling of the coronavirus, 89% said they trusted him as a source of information about the outbreak, and 3 out of 4 said he was doing a better job than Trump.
A week earlier, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” DeWine seemed to go out of his way to flatter Trump, saying that Ohio’s May 1 date to begin reopening was “consistent — very, very consistent — with the plan, the very thoughtful plan that the president has laid out.” Last week, DeWine publicly condemned a Republican state senator who had likened the actions of the director of the Ohio Department of Health, Dr. Amy Acton, who is Jewish, to Nazis during World War II.
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