Jeremy Pelzer

Uh, if this does prove accurate, it's something that we'll make sure to employ more fully in future elections.

Our chief political writer, Jeremy Pelzer, is taking a look at them.

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Republicans think calling people socialists is the best way to stop opponents? How did that become a dirty trick in an Ohio race, Leila?

[upbeat music] The series is complete.

All those issue stories by Jeremy Pelzer about the governor's race are now published, and it's the first story we're talking about on Today in Ohio.

It's the news discussion podcast from cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer.

I'm Chris Quinn, here with Lisa Garvin, Layla Tassi, and Laura Johnston.

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Reporter Jeremy Pelzer has been busy now for months asking candidates for Ohio governor their positions on issues that our readers told us they felt were important.

This latest is about voting rules, and once again, Vivek Ramaswamy [laughs] refuses to answer questions or in any way show us who he is.

How will anybody vote for this guy when you have no idea how he would govern? What did the other candidates tell us, Leila?

I'm going to split the episode into two parts where we're going to talk about key statewide races in Ohio and Maine.

So first, I chat with Jeremy Pelzer, who is the chief politics reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

And he's been covering Ohio politics for a long time, since the early 2010s.

And we're going to chat with him about what's going on in the Ohio Senate and Ohio governor races.

Please check out both parts of these episodes.

We're going to start out talking with Jeremy to dig into what's happening in the Buckeye State.

i'm excited to welcome in jeremy pelzer the chief politics reporter for the cleveland plane dealer and he's covered ohio politics since and government since 2013. so jeremy you're the perfect person to talk to about what's going on in these very competitive and very interesting senate and gubernatorial races in ohio so i guess sort of just start out with what do you sort what's your sort of sense of the lay of the land politically in ohio because that'll apply to both both contests i think

Well, first of all, thanks so much for having me.