The Republicans gather around the GOP senator after Sherrod Brown announces the Ohio Run
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The Republicans of the State of Ohio and across the country gathered around the first year senator Jon Huste this week after the Democrat Sherrod Brown, who represented Ohio in the Senate for almost 20 years before being not killed last year, announced that he presented himself for the headquarters of Husted.
“The recent announcement of Sherrod Brown means that the Ohioans will face a clear choice in 2026,” said Jon Husted for the director of communications for the Senate, Tyson Shepard, at Fox News Digital.
“For 30 Years, He has imposed Washington’s Problems on Ohio, Pushing Radical Liberal Policies That Have Left A Lasting Burden on the Next Generation. Jon Husted Offers The Oppoch Approach, Applying Ohio’s Values and Solutions to Fix A Broken Washington. SAME ONES HUSTED HAS HELPED OUR STATE ENGRESS AND OVERCOME, Champion the values He Learned Growing Up in Northwest Ohio: Hard Work, Personal Responsibility, Family, Faith, Freedom and Patriotism.
Buckeye state republicans echoed similar feelings this week, expressing Husted’s optimism, which was appointed to the Senate this year by the Ohio Republican Governor Mike Dewine to fill the vacant seat when JD Vance left the Senate to become vice-president, overcoming Brown next year.
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Senator Jon Husted, R-Ohio, during a Senate confirmation audience for health, education, work and pensions in Washington, DC, February 13, 2025. (Getty Images)
The Ohio Republican Senator, Bernie Moreno, who beat Brown last year despite his entry into the race as an -owned in the polls, said on x This week, “after 50 years of life of the taxpayer, losing an election by a wide margin with 300 million dollars in silver outside the state, abandoning the work ohioans to be the dog of Lap de Chuck Schumer and aspiring with coastal elites, it is time for @Sherrodbrown to leave.”
“Ohio is lucky to have @Senjusted in the Senate!, “Ohio Republican Congress Jim Jordan Posted on X After Brown’s announcement.
Dewine also commented on the race, calling Brown a “formidable” candidate but saying that he believed that Husted “will win”.
Ohio Republican Congress Max Miller said am 1420 The answer This week, he has “no idea of what Brown thinks that Brown is recovering in this race” adding “men in female sports, open borders, selling to China? The Ohioans do not like that.”
Republican leaders outside the Ohio state are also competing for Husted, notably the senator and the national president of the republican senatorial committee Tim Scott, who said about Brown on x“We beat it once. We beat it again.”
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Sherrod Brown senator, D-Ohio, crosses the American Capitol in July. (Bill Clark / CQ-Roll Call, included via Getty Images)
Support for Husted has also come from certain corners of Ohio who, historically, would have liked Brown, who defended himself as a candidate of the working class in the past 20 years, as evidenced by the approvals he received this week Brown County Sheriff And an approval of the Northwest Ohio Building & Construction Trades Council (NWOBCTC), which represents 18 affiliated local unions and thousands of qualified workers in eight Ohio counties.
“More momentum for @jonhusted”, the secretary of republican state of Ohio Frank Larose, who ran in the republican primary to overthrow Brown last year, Posted on X In response to the approval of the Northwest Ohio Building & Construction Trades.
“While Sherrod Brown talks about a big match, his album tells a different story. He took the line for the coastal elites by focusing on their left left agenda and ignoring the needs of Ohios workers’ families. Jon is actually fighting for Ohio workers and it is a well -deserved approval!”
Brown, who spent more than three decades representing Ohio in the House and later the Senate, was strongly recruited by the best national democrats, of which The chief of the minority of the Senate Chuck Schumer, Who made two trips in the Buckeye state to try to convince Brown to run again.
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Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio, Jon Husted, speaks during the National Republican Convention in Milwaukee on July 15, 2024. (Getty Images)
Husted, who was the Lieutenant-Governor and Secretary of State of Ohio, has an approval from Trump while he is running next year to fulfill the last two years of the mandate of Vance.
“I did not plan to present myself to his duties, but when I see what is happening, I know that I can do something for Ohio,” said Brown, who was chairman of the Senate banking committee during his mandate in DC, in a campaign launch video.
Schumer and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Chairman of the Senate Democratic Senate Campaign (DSCC), argued in a press release that “nobody fights more hard for Ohio than Sherrod Brown. To secure the retirement of Ohioans and social benefits at Ohio-Ohioans.”
The X account belonging to the DSCC has actively praised Brown’s announcement, labeling Brown as a candidate who “searches for Ohio workers and accused Husted of having” sold Ohioans “with his support for” Big Beau Bill “by Trump.
Ohio was once a state of battlefield of the high -level general elections, but has become more and more red in the last decade. Trump carried 11 points above the president of the time, Kamala Harris. But Brown surpassed the top of the ticket, losing against Moreno less than four points.
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The party which does not hold the White House generally experiences a strong participation in the mid-term elections and the Democrats are optimistic about a strong demonstration with Trump not on the ballot to stimulate republican participation, but the Ramaswamy republican takes place for the governor of Ohio in 2026 could help to relieve this problem with persistent negative attitudes.
“Having Sherrod on the ticket and asking the Ohio voters who strongly support President Trump and the mission of our party, if they want to retreat, it will be an argument of solid participation for us with our faithful of the Ohio party,” said the president of the Ohio Republican Party, Alex Triantafilou, said Spectrum News. “Because we cannot come back to the time of Sherrod Brown and Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.”
Brown is the second best recruit that the Democrats in the Senate landed this year, in addition to the Governor Roy Cooper in North Carolina, while they are working to try to win back the majority of the room next year. The GOP currently has a majority of 53-47 in the Senate.
