The Dayton-area appearance will be his second of the day. He will appear at a volunteer appreciation lunch at Portman campaign headquarters, 1452 Yankee Park Place, Washington Twp.
The four-stop Saturday trip starts in Terrace Park and ends in Toledo. The whole tour lasts until Aug. 26.
Strickland runs first TV ads
Pilloried by negative attacks and lagging in funding and some polls, Strickland began airing the first television ads of his campaign Wednesday against Portman.
The multimillion-dollar ad buy is airing in markets across Ohio including Dayton. The 60-second spot focuses on Strickland’s hardscrabble childhood in Appalachian Ohio, his blue-collar roots and the campaign’s working-class focus.
The spots detail several policy changes Strickland says he would support as senator, including the creation of an infrastructure bank, a middle-class tax cut, and a temporary moratorium on future trade deals as the impacts on American jobs are studied.
The ads skirt his four years as governor, a target of anti-Strickland ads in the millions of dollars. Leading the state during a national recession, Strickland presided over deep budget cuts and about 350,000 job losses.
Anti-Portman ads also are filling Ohio airwaves in one of 2016’s most expensive election contests. Those are mostly funded by outside groups allied with Strickland.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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