Columbus, Ohio (AP) – Ohio Democrat Sherrod Brown officially launches His campaign Monday to return to the US Senate next year Loss to Republican Bernie Moreno Last fall, his professional working class message can continue to resonate with state voters.
Brown, the state’s most well-known Democrat, is seeking a seat held by former Ohio Central Vice-Governor, state senator and Secretary of State Sen. John Husted, who has already won president. Donald Trump’s Approved. Husted was appointed to a seat in January Make Jd Vance a success When he was elected vice president. Next year’s election will be the final two years of his six-year term.
In an interview with The Associated Press, Brown said he has no plans for political interests until he watches with his wife, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz. The Senate passed Trump’s Mass tax cuts and spending reduces bills last month.
He said bill Perpetuates the “equipped systems” he has been fighting for throughout his career. Medicaid.
“We couldn’t stay with the sidelines,” Brown said. “And I know I can fight back. No one in the Senate talks for Ohio workers. There’s no one there. That’s my job.
Brown, 72, is considered one of the Democratic Party’s most frightening Senate candidates in the middle of next year. Difficult map. He and the former Democratic government. Roy Cooper North Carolina has two famous names adopted by the party to run in famous races, but Republicans have struggled to line up candidates on several important battlefields. That includes incumbent Democratic senators. John Ossoff It’s the highest goal of the Republican cycle.
Brown said he was encouraged by many daily Ohio states who stopped him on the streets or in coffee shops to ask him to go back to politics. Of the dozens of other people who weighed the Senate or governor best suited, he is New York Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer, who leads a difficult fight to win. Chamber control.
Some Ohio workers leaders told the Associated Press they are preferred. They are worried about the impact on the movement if biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy (a wealthy Republican frontrunner in Trump and the state talks) wins an open seat next year.
Brown, slut We have launched a non-profit organization for professional workers. Under his “dignity of work” slogan in March, he admitted to the “slight disappointment” he had chosen among some. But he said he expects “nearly 100% support” from union leadership now that he has launched his campaign. “What Labour says to me is that they don’t have a strong voice for workers in the US Senate, both coalition and non-union labor,” he said. “And I was that, and I will be that.”
He said he was not ready to support the governor’s race. There, Dr. Amy Acton, former state health director who led the state during the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Running as a Democrat.
After Brown’s decision to run for the Senate was made public last week, Husted’s campaign said Brown “started with the biggest hole in his political career.”
“Brown’s slogan shines as his coalition leaves. I’m tired of the radical policies he has been forced to support in soothing the coastal bosses of California and New York,” Husted spokesman Tyson Shepherd said in a statement.
Brown is back: “My career was about workers. His career was about special interests.” He quotes Unresolved tie Husted, 57, has an energy company at the heart of a $60 million bribery scheme that envelops the state. The past five years And he placed the former House Speaker behind the bar for 20 years. Husted has not been charged with civil or criminal misconduct.
In a strategy memo on August 12, the National Republican Senate campaign said how solidly Brown, Democrats and political coverage underestimated Red Ohio. It was once a reliable political innate – It’s 10 years after Trump.
The memo said Brown will lose his final cycle by a political rookie, spending the last 20 years in state politics and will face “even steeper climbs against famous incumbents” like Husted, who posted $2.9 million the last quarter. Last year’s Brown Moreno matchup was the most expensive Senate race in US history.
