Ohio primaries test Democratic loyalty, Trump’s influence

Ohio voters will pick nominees for vacant House seats today, settling a fight over Democratic Party loyalty in Cleveland and testing the power of Donald Trump’s endorsement in Columbus’s conservative exurbs.

In the 11th Congressional District, which stretches from Cleveland to Akron, former state senator Nina Turner is locked in a bitter fight with Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilor and chair of the local Democratic Party. Turner, who co-chaired Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) last presidential campaign, entered the race as the best-known candidate, and an ally of the left-wing...