The city of Cincinnati has a large number of Blacks, so it makes it harder for a Republican to win. Cincy only recently changed how the Mayors were elected to direct. It used to be the highest vote-getter on the Council assumed the position. Cincy was a GOP city for a long time, but like a lot of urban machines, it had corruption in it. The Charterite party was formed by liberal/reformist Republicans/Democrats to oppose the machine. Dems started to grow and supplant the Charterites. I think there are only a couple Republicans left on the city council.
It is humorous how Democrats used “Republican corruption” as an issue in places like Philadelphia, Cincinnati, Detroit, Chicago, et al, only to swiftly establish their own corrupt machines that haven’t been displaced in some case for a half-century or longer (Chicago last elected a GOP Mayor almost 80 years ago). The dirty little secret is that urban politics tends to be quite corrupt, no matter which party in charge (although the corruption of the past used to mean people got their services, having palms greased, that sort of thing, but nowhere near the level of dysfunction and criminality most urban areas have now that would’ve been intolerable then), but Democrats run virtually all cities, and they’re quite comfortable with that mess they’ve made.
Yeah, our last Mayor was Capone’s guy while he pretended to be a crime fighter.
You can almost admire such a brazen bald-faced lie in comparison to the “spin” of today.