© Provided by Evening Standard Joe Biden was campaigning in Ohio today as opinion polls suggest a tight race in the battleground state where Donald Trump stormed to victory four years ago. The Democratic party former vice-president, 77, has been pouring campaign funds into the “Buckeye State”, boosting advertising especially on local radio stations in rural western counties and in south-eastern Appalachian counties where Mr Trump won convincingly last time round. Mr Biden was planning an afternoon campaign speech in Toledo, before heading to Cincinnati for a “voter mobilisation event” on his second campaign stop in the traditional bellwether state, which then Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton lost by 44 per cent to Mr Trump’s 52 per cent. A new state-wide poll of likely voters shows Mr Trump with a lead of less than two percentage points with early voting already under way. https://cdn.jwplayer.com/players/vb5a9sby-hKY5LbS1.html Joe Biden calls Donald Trump ‘reckless’ at…
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