Holding a lead in two recent independent polls and facing a challenge from three GOP opponents, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine won’t attend an upcoming debate, a campaign spokesperson announced March 10. “We will respectfully decline the invitation to participate in the Ohio Debate Commission’s Primary debate,” Brenton Temple wrote to the commission’s Jill Miller Zimon. Organized by the commission, primary debates for the U.S. Senate and gubernatorial races will take place later this month at Central State University’s Paul Robeson Cultural and Performing Arts Center in Wilberforce—four miles from DeWine’s home in Cedarville. Senate Democrats are scheduled to take the stage on March 28 from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., while Senate Republicans will gather that evening from 7 o’clock to 8:30 p.m. Republican gubernatorial candidates will debate on March 29 from 11 a.m. to noon, and their Democratic Party counterparts will appear that night from 7 p.m. to 8 …