Chris Matthews Comes To Dayton!

Chris Matthews is filming in Dayton, Ohio. He is addressing how residents of this community voted for Trump.

MSNBC agitator Chris Matthews comes to the heart of the rust belt. He comes to Dayton, Ohio, a city that has 135,000 residents. The county seat is Montgomery County. The county that voted twice for Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 but for the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election voted for Donald J. Trump.

Matthews will be hosting a town hall at 10pm on the cable network. He will be interviewing individuals who live in this community and get the honest take on whether Trump or his Democratic opponent could win the state in the 2020 election.

The Deciders will be taped for Hardball.

Matthews will be taping at the Mendelsons nic-nak store.

Trump has a 65% chance of winning reelection.

There's a 75% chance Trump will carry Ohio in 2020.

Things could change if the Democrats come back to their senses. I mean the party has played nice for years and kind of ignore the Rust Belt. How many times has Hillary Clinton came to Dayton, Ohio during the 2016 election?

I don't know, not too much. She felt that she could carry the state with the Northeastern region.

Montgomery County is now considered a swing county. Folks who often vote for Democrats voted for Republicans. I mean they voted for John Kasich and Mike DeWine.

The city's mayor Nan Whaley is a Democrat.

Trotwood, Ohio is one of the Dayton suburbs that was destroyed by the tornadoes.

Dayton continues to struggle despite Trump's promises of "Making America Great Again."

Dayton has lost a major hospital, had to close up schools, lost three grocery stores in a city that is considered a food desert, suffered major destruction from two EF-4 tornadoes and had no significant change in population since the great exodus of white folks to the suburbs.

Dayton is a segregated city. The river and Interstate 75 divides the community.

Many in northwest and west Dayton suffer the worst. With the lost of Good Samaritan Hospital and the decline of manufacturing, the city has become a beacon of blight and despair.

The only things that Dayton has going are the Hollywood Gaming casino, the Wright Patterson Air Force Base, the Dayton Dragons baseball club and the Dayton Aviation National Historical Park.

There's not much I can say about the community itself. I wish things could change but that's heresy.

The city is caught between Cincinnati, Columbus, Indianapolis and Toledo. Where the only area in the state that is significantly growing is Columbus with Cincinnati slowly expanding it's metropolis.

Columbus is the state capital and largest city. The population of Columbus is 947,000 residents.

Cincinnati is the third largest city in the state. The population of Cincinnati is 302,000 residents. The city's metropolitan area which includes parts of Indiana and Kentucky has a population of 3.5 million residents.