Your Money, Your Vote: Battleground Ohio
HARLOW: You've heard from the candidates and the pundits, but what about the voters? We traveled across the key swing states to hear firsthand from the voters. For our special report airing tonight, "Your Money, Your Vote" here's what he heard in Ohio. A state so critical no candidate has won the White House without winning Ohio since 1960.</s>HARLOW: This neighborhood in Cleveland, Ohio, was one of the strongest for President Obama in 2012. Mitt Romney did not get a single vote from people living in these homes, not one. People living here have been struggling economically for a long time and they still are, so the question is will they come out in droves for Hillary Clinton the way they did for President Obama.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hillary.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hillary is the best candidate.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's a no-brainer.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): There have been decades of economic despair and a dwindling faith that politicians will help.</s>JEFF CROSBY, CLEVELAND PEACEMAKERS ALLIANCE YOUTH MENTOR: I think the Democratic platform is saying the same thing we have heard for about the past 50 years.</s>HARLOW (on camera): Over and over.</s>CROSBY: Over and over.</s>HARLOW: Since the war on poverty was declared.</s>CROSBY: Yes.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): Jeff Crosby used to be in gangs. That landed him in prison. Now he's working to keep kids from the same life he lived.</s>CROSBY: It's one of the highest crime areas in Cleveland.</s>HARLOW (on camera): This is.</s>CROSBY: Yes. About ten gangs over here. Oh, what's up? You good?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>CROSBY: I think the Democratic Party is taking us for granted. The Republican Party literally ignores us except for Trump. Trump is striving to make inroads, but he is a polarizing figure.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just don't trust Donald, that's all.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Because he got money, that ain't everything.</s>SIERRA LESLEY, CLEVELAND VOTER: I'm willing to vote for a clown before Donald Trump.</s>HARLOW: Really?</s>LESLEY: Yes. With a red nose. I do agree with Republicans sometimes, but I don't agree with nothing that Donald Trump stands for.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): And that brings us to the second part of this Ohio chapter, 200 miles south. (on camera): We're in Pike County, Ohio and this place matters a lot. Not for the number of votes here, but because of what it represents. It used to be solidly blue, but it's been moving more and more red. In 2012, this was the closest county in the country. Mitt Romney won here by a single vote, just one vote. It's 96 percent white, largely blue collar, and unemployment here is high. These are exactly the voters Donald Trump has been speaking to. So if his message isn't resonating here, he's in trouble.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd say right now you're looking at a coin toss.</s>HARLOW: A coin toss among union workers who until now have been solidly blue? Have you ever seen anything like Donald Trump say he's the one to bring these jobs back? He's the one to build up your industry.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Donald Trump is saying that. That's total propaganda. Where's his merchandise made? What does he have to offer to American industry? Nothing.</s>HARLOW: Many here do believe Trump and see him as their best shot as getting ahead. Since 2000, Ohio has lost nearly a third of its manufacturing jobs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's got a lot of things that is amazing that he was telling us he can do for us.</s>HARLOW: Angie Shanks runs a real estate firm here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It needs more jobs, better paying jobs.</s>HARLOW (on camera): You voted for President Obama in 2008.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I did.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): But her faith in the Obama administration has faded.</s>ANGIE SHANKS, PIKE COUNTY, OHIO VOTER: I think Trump is a businessman and the country is a business and needs to be run as a business.</s>HARLOW: When we met Angie, she was leaning towards Trump. Now, after the "Access Hollywood" tape surfaced, she's reconsidering. (on camera): You're a lifelong Democrat?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.</s>HARLOW: So you're voting for Hillary this time around?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, I'm not.</s>HARLOW: No?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My dad was a coal miner. They put the coal miners out of work.</s>HARLOW (voice-over): We left Ohio asking this question, why does economic pain from one town to the next push some people left and others right?</s>HARLOW: We should note this was filmed before that 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape of Donald Trump surfaced so we called back all of the Trump supporters we interviewed. Nearly everyone with the exception of just a few are still supporting Donald Trump and planning to vote for him. You can see much more tonight on our special report tonight "Your Money, Your Vote" 7:30 p.m. Eastern right here. Quick break, we're back here in a moment.