Democratic
Joyce Beatty
Incumbent representative for OH-3. Voting record, ideology and biography →
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Ohio District 3 election, 2026
Joyce Beatty vs. Cleophus Dulaney on a newly enacted 2026 district map.
VotePredictor forecast
Joyce Beatty favored
Safe D · predicted margin D+46.6
99%
chance to win
2024 presidential lean
D+40.62026 national environment
D+6.6District polls
noneForecast spread
±7.8 pointsMargin from the district's presidential lean on its 2026 lines, one fitted intercept and the national environment as a uniform swing; the win probability adds a decaying incumbency premium (Democratic incumbent running). No district poll is blended in.
Republican
Cleophus Dulaney
Major-party general-election nominee.
Polls
No district-level 2026 general-election poll is currently in VotePredictor's verified polling feed for OH-3. The forecast above is the model alone: lean, incumbency and the national environment.
Other forecasts
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Candidate news
'It will never be the same': How the Kennedy Center got stuck in a cultural quagmire
US President Donald Trump stands in the presidential box as he tours the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, on March 17, 2025. - Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images When President Donald Trump’s name was ordered removed from the Kenne…
CNN · September 19, 2026
Trump's Kennedy Center overhaul has reshaped the venue and put its future in doubt
President Trump was photographed this week on board Air Force One examining a large poster with the words "Kennedy Center DEMOLISHED" printed above a rendering of a construction site, heightening concerns that his administration wants to raze Washington, D.C.…
Yahoo Entertainment · September 18, 2026
Legal observer said she saw forklift repeatedly hit Kennedy Center pillars
A member of the legal team for U.S. Rep. Joyce Beatty, an Ohio Democrat who has challenged President Donald Trump's actions involving the Kennedy Center, wrote in a court declaration that she saw a forklift repeatedly run into pillars at the building.
Snopes.com · September 17, 2026
Judge Orders 30-Day Notice For Any Kennedy Center ‘Demolition’
The ruling follows a court filing by Rep. Joyce Beatty (D-Ohio) that raised alarms over a picture that appears to show the building being torn down.
HuffPost · September 17, 2026
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