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In Springfield, Ohio, Trump must settle the MAGA vs Chamber of Commerce war

Springfield business leaders and construction workers clash over 15,000 Haitian refugees who arrived since 2020

By David Marcus Fox News

Published October 11, 2026 3:41pm EDT

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Voters detail what Ohio candidates must focus on to win over Trump's base of voters. Despite economic hardships, they say Republican voters remain loyal to the president's agenda.

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At a rally in Ohio last week, President Donald Trump told his supporters that, "Even if you hate John Husted, even if you hate Vivek Ramaswamy, you have to go vote for them." It was a blunt assessment of the GOP’s respective candidates for Senate and governor, but one that Trump, who wins Ohio elections like Tom Brady won Super Bowls, knows is vitally important.

Trump would laugh off the remark, saying that nobody really hates the GOP candidates. But he was making an essential point, especially in Ohio, which is the front line of the war between the traditional GOP and Trump’s MAGA base, much of it centered on the question of immigration.

To hear from the Chamber of Commerce side, I spoke with Jim Lagos, who has lived his entire 75 years in Springfield, owns several buildings downtown, and has been a central figure in the attempts to revitalize the city’s downtown district.

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"You have to pull the trigger," Jim told me of efforts to bring the very pretty, but very empty........

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