Republican Troy Balderson, a candidate for Ohio's 12th District, joins volunteers at a phone bank in Westerville, Ohio, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, a day ahead of a special election for the congressional seat. Balderson, a two-term Republican state senator, is working to retain GOP control of the 12th District.
As voters go to the polls on this Tuesday for Congressional primaries in four states, the main story line tonight will be a special election for a U.S. House seat in the state of Ohio, as Republicans struggle to hold on to a seat which has been easily in the GOP column for years, as a defeat will be seen as a clear rebuke of President Donald Trump and the Republican Party writ large in a key mid-term election year. "He's really tough.
Balderson, a two... . Democratic congressional candidate Danny O'Connor speaks to Roger Tackett, 71, of Clark County, Ohio, during a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2018, ahead of Tuesday's special election.
A man from Ohio has been charged with threatening Ohio Republican Rep. Steve Strivers after leaving a voicemail that mentioned the shooting at a congressional baseball practice last week, according to Fox News . Stanley Hoff, a 68-year-old resident of Westerville, Ohio, left the threatening voicemail at Rep. Strivers' office on Saturday.
In this Oct. 2, 2012, file photo, a man places a sign letting people know where to line up for early voting at the Hamilton County Board of Elections in Cincinnati. In Ohio, one of the biggest prizes in the 2016 presidential election, groups have challenged shortened early voting, procedures for absentee and provisional ballots and the process for purging voters from registration rolls, potentially affecting when voters can cast ballots and how ballots are counted.