Some encouraging news today out of Ohio:
Remington is a GOP pollster and I am working on finding the full results from the poll. However, their poll is pretty consistent with the split ticket voting we’ve been seeing in Ohio:
Brown, the lone Democrat elected to statewide office in the increasingly red Ohio since 2011, has been a fixture in state politics since the 1970s, consistently conveying a progressive, populist message that has notable similarities with Trump on policy. Both politicians support economic protectionism—criticizing trade with China while lamenting America’s manufacturing decline—and support measures to secure the U.S.-Mexico border.
Brown’s positions have found favor with working and middle-class voters across party lines, one of whom is Georgie Sundberg, a retiree from the Cleveland suburb of Burton. When she votes for Trump for the third time this November, she says she also will vote for Brown, as she has done since his first Senate run in 2006.
“[Brown] remembers the people here in Northeast Ohio,” Sundberg told Dispatch Politics. “He has the right positions on the border, fentanyl, and the military,” issues she compares favorably to Trump’s stances.
Paul Beck, a political science professor at Ohio State University, told Dispatch Politics that voters like Sundberg are not an anomaly. “Ohio voters are quite willing to differentiate between candidates they like and have voted for in the past, regardless of party,” said Beck.
Sundberg’s loyalty to Trump hasn’t caused her to be persuaded to vote for Moreno. “If there was another Republican [nominee] that had Trump’s backing, then maybe I’d consider voting for them. Bernie Moreno is just not good enough.”
Lack of enthusiasm for Moreno among some Ohioans showed in an early June Marist poll showing Brown leading Moreno by 5 percent among registered voters. In addition, the latest campaign finance reports ending in March show Brown with nearly $16 million cash on hand, while Moreno has slightly above $2 million.
Health, Democracy and Freedom are on the ballot next year and we need to get ready to flip Ohio Blue. Click below to donate and get involved with Brown and his fellow Ohio Democrats campaigns:
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