John Kasich of Ohio, a Republican, wrote on Twitter in April that he had watched voters reject policies that he and his legislative majority had backed.
“It wouldn’t have been right then, and it isn’t right now.”Once, Ohio was the quintessential swing state.
The 2022 election brought single-party control of the governor’s office and legislature to 39 states, the most in at least three decades.
And 29 states, 20 of them Republican, have veto-proof supermajorities that control both houses of the state legislatures.
“We can kind of do what we want,” Matt Huffman, the powerful Ohio State Senate president, told the Columbus Dispatch in a 2022 profile.
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