Donald Trump

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at Joni's Roast and Ride, a fundraiser for a PAC, at the Iowa State Fairgrounds, in Des Moines, Iowa, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2016.

(Gerald Herbert, Associated Press)

A leader in the "Never Trump" movement has launched a swing state ad buy. Vice President Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump are all set to speak in Ohio this week. Ohio Gov. John Kasich has made his return to New Hampshire, which may point toward another presidential run in 2020. Read more in today's Ohio Politics Roundup, brought to you by Robin Goist.

Anti-Trump Republicans to launch swing state ad buy: A new ad attacking Donald Trump is set to air in suburbs in a handful of battleground states, including Ohio, reports Politico's Kyle Cheney. The ad, titled "Keep Your Word," features footage of Trump during the Republican primary in which he suggested he'd drop out if his poll numbers declined. It ends with a plea: "Resign the nomination. Let the RNC replace you so we can beat Hillary."

In addition to the Buckeye State, the ad will air in Florida, Virginia and Michigan, according to Regina Thomson, a Colorado GOP activist and leader of Free the Delegates, the organization that failed to stop Trump's nomination last month. The Trump campaign dismissed the new effort as a remnant of the dying "Never Trump" movement.

Trump says the system is rigged, but Husted disagrees: Trump's first general election TV ad, which began airing in Ohio and elsewhere last week, opens with an image of a voter entering a polling place, with the caption "system rigged" - but Ohio's top elections official begs to differ, reports cleveland.com's Andrew J. Tobias.

"What I have said is that Hillary Clinton is wrong when she talks about voters being disenfranchised in America, and Donald Trump is wrong when he talks about the election being rigged," said Republican Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted in his intentionally bipartisan response. "In the end when these questions get raised, it just gives us an opportunity to talk about the facts and what we do in Ohio to make sure Ohio is a place, as I always say, where it's easy to vote and hard to cheat."

VPOTUS coming to CLE: Vice President Joe Biden will campaign for Clinton Thursday in Cleveland and the Mahoning Valley, reports cleveland.com's Mary Kilpatrick. He is expected to "lay out the high stakes of November's election" and "urge Ohioans to support Clinton and her vision for an America that is stronger together, with an economy that works for everyone, not just those at the top," according to a Clinton campaign news release.

Trump's campaign was quick to put out a statement attacking Biden's visit to the Mahoning Valley. "Hillary Clinton is running scared because Donald Trump's America First message of job growth is resonating in the Mahoning Valley, and that's why she's enlisting Joe Biden to try to bail her out politically," Trump campaign Ohio state director Bob Paduchik said.

Trump, Clinton to speak at Cincinnati convention: Both major party presidential candidates will speak at The American Legion's national convention in Cincinnati this week, reports WLWT's Andrew Setters. "We want to hear their plans - what they're going to do if they're elected President of the United States," said Dale Barnett, national commander of The American Legion, which represents 2.2 million veterans. Clinton will address the convention on Wednesday and Trump will speak the day after.

Where do Clinton and Trump stand on health care? While the presidential candidates have been talking about their health records, voters are almost certainly more interested in how they will address today's top health care problems. From drug addiction to the Zika virus to Obamacare, see where the Democrat and Republican stand on health care issues in cleveland.com's Sabrina Eaton's slideshow.

Portman vs. Strickland: The Columbus Dispatch's Jessica Wehrman explains where Ohio's U.S. Senate candidates stand on social issues. "Sen. Rob Portman had a change of heart about whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry. Former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland shifted more slowly on that issue but made a far more dramatic change in his support for gun control," Wehrman writes.

Perfect 2020 vision? Ohio Gov. John Kasich held a reception Sunday evening for his presidential campaign supporters in Concord, New Hampshire, a visit that Politico's Alex Isenstadt writes could point to another presidential run. Kasich recently endorsed Executive Councilor Chris Sununu in his bid for governor, writes New Hampshire Public Radio's Casey McDermott. In a Facebook post, Kasich said he is "looking forward to a few New Hampshire visits" to help Sununu and Sen. Kelly Ayotte as the election approaches.

Kasich will headline a press conference with Sununu Monday morning in Concord. The pair will join State Sen. Russell Prescott, who is running for Sununu's open seat on the executive council, Monday afternoon in downtown Exeter. Neither Ayotte nor Sununu endorsed a candidate during the New Hampshire primary, in which Kasich came in second to Trump, but Chris Sununu's brother, Sen. John E. Sununu, was a top adviser to Kasich's presidential campaign.

Kasich says Trump has a chance to win Ohio: "Gov. John Kasich took a step back from earlier predictions that Donald Trump can't carry Ohio," writes The Columbus Dispatch's Darrel Rowland. In a short interview with CNN broadcast Friday night, Kasich said the key factor will be how well Clinton performs in Ohio's major cities. He acknowledged there will be places in the state where Trump does very well, meaning "the question is what happens in the urban areas and is Hillary able to generate excitement in urban areas. If she can, she'll win, and if she can't, she won't."

Kasich also downplayed the significance of his return to New Hampshire. When asked about whether he's laying the groundwork for a 2020 presidential bid, he said, "I wouldn't get carried away."

Feminist leader predicts 2016 political gender gap: On the eve of Women's Equality Day, Northeast Ohio native, president of the Feminist Majority advocacy group in Washington, D.C. and publisher of Ms. Magazine, Eleanor Smeal, sat with cleveland.com's Henry Gomez for a Q&A. "Smeal is largely credited with being the first to identify the political gender gap - the difference between men's and women's choices of candidates and issues at the voting booth," Gomez writes. When asked about how wide this year's gender gap will be, Smeal recalled that it was 10 points for President Barack Obama in 2012, and "I think this time it's going to be more like 15 points."

The three third-party candidates in Ohio: "Gary Johnson's certification as a presidential candidate for the Ohio ballot raises the potential that for the first time in 20 years a third-party or independent candidate could win enough votes to alter the outcome in Ohio," writes cleveland.com's Rich Exner. Exner explains how the Libertarian candidate, the Green Party's Jill Stein or independent Richard Duncan could potentially change the outcome of the election, but not win Ohio.

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