OH-13: In blue-collar Ohio seat, Rep. Emilia Sykes braces for a rematch and redistricting
CANTON, Ohio – The crowd that turned out on a recent evening to hear Democratic Rep. Emilia Sykes was largely unified in its rejection of the Trump agenda.
But even in front of a friendly audience, Sykes trod carefully.
“Quite frankly, and quite literally, about half of the people … in this district voted for Donald Trump to be their president, and about half of them, almost down the line, voted for Vice President Harris,’’ Sykes said at the outset of the town hall, held last week at the Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 94 headquarters, three miles south of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. “There’s no way I can be a good member of Congress without taking in all perspectives.”
Kamala Harris carried this purple-hued Northeast Ohio seat by less than a tenth of a percentage point in November, according to calculations by The Downballot – the narrowest presidential margin of any congressional district in the nation. Sykes prevailed over her Republican opponent, former state legislator Kevin Coughlin, by 2 points.
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