“I told him we had a million new Republicans,” Mr. Borges recalled of a conversation he had with Mr. Trump. “I’ve gotten to the point where I feel so much of this is on the Trump campaign,” said Matt Borges, chairman of the Ohio Republican Party. “You don’t have a stop-Trump movement without Trump,” Mr. Borges said. He said Mr. Trump recently called him after reading that Mrs. Clinton was far ahead in hiring field staff members in Ohio. But as Republicans head to Cleveland to nominate Donald J. Trump in two weeks, a convention city chosen with Battleground Ohio much in mind, a vortex of headwinds are rising against Mr. Trump in the state.

Source: New York Times July 04, 2016 18:01 UTC