Sherrod Brown’s vanishing political base puts at risk a long career in elected life: Brent Larkin
Ohio politically has become a borderline extremist place where the most reprehensible man to ever occupy the White House was singlehandedly responsible for JD Vance and Moreno winning the last two elections for U.S. senator. Next year’s sleight-of-hand calls for President Trump helping to elect a Republican governor who knows absolutely nothing about the business of governing Ohio, Brent Larkin writes in his column today.
Sherrod Brown, defeated last year in his U.S. Senate re-election bid, spent 48 of the last 50 years in elected office, including 18 years in the Senate. Will he try for a comeback next year – either for the Senate or Ohio governor? Or will the lagging fortunes of Democrats in Ohio lead Brown to take a pass on another run for office? Brent Larkin takes a look. (Jeff Dean, Associated Press, File)Jeff Dean, Associated Press
No holder of high office in Ohio has enjoyed a longer career in elected life than Sherrod Brown.
Voters sidelined Brown for only two years between 1975 and 2025. And in 2006, they sent Brown to the U.S. Senate for the first of three terms, courtesy of a landslide victory, gale-force wind at his back, over incumbent Mike DeWine. When DeWine leaves office as governor at the end of next year, he will have been in office for 46 of the previous 50 years, only slightly fewer than Brown’s 48.
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