To nip any disaster scenario in the bud, they say, Biden also needs to flip one or more “nail-in-the-coffin states” — that is, the ones that on election night itself could quickly and decisively prove that Trump has no remaining path to victory.Ohio, the site of this year’s first presidential debate, could be Biden’s best option.
In a normal world, I understand the tipping-point strategy,” David Pepper, chair of the Ohio Democratic Party, told Yahoo News. “But we’re not in a normal world. We’re in a world where Donald Trump sees a path to be president even if he loses a close election. So I would say, ‘Don’t aim for the goal that guarantees chaos; aim for the goal that ends it before it starts.’ And that means winning a state that’s tied, a state that counts its early votes first and announces them first, and a state that has a Republican secretary of state who can’t claim that Democrats rigged it.”“Win Ohio,” Pepper added, “and you’ve just ended not just the Trump presidency — you’ve ended the drama that Trump wants before it ever got started.”