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PREVIEW: #OHIO: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner and Wall Street Journal re the Senate contest in Ohio -- and the surprising vulnerability of the long-serving and successfully Progressive Sherrod Brown (D-O

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 15 March 2024

⏱️ 4 minutes

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PREVIEW: #OHIO: Excerpt from a conversation with colleague Salena Zito of the Washington Examiner and Wall Street Journal re the Senate contest in Ohio -- and the surprising vulnerability of the long-serving and successfully Progressive Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio). More of this later.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/2920197/kristi-noem-brings-populist-star-power-to-ohio-primary/

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Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. This is John Bachelor speaking with Selina Zito, my colleague. She writes for the Washington Examiner in the Wall Street Journal about the contest for the Republican nomination in Ohio to face the long-serving and very successful shared Brown of Ohio in the general

0:37.7

election.

0:38.7

I learned that the three candidates all are polling well against shared brown not because of their

0:44.9

significance right now the primary hasn't happened yet there are three good choices

0:49.9

the Republicans must decide but But because Sherrod Brown has lost the confidence

0:56.9

that they vote in Mahoning Valley on the eastern side of Ohio along the Pennsylvania border.

1:04.0

Mahoney Valley vote is still with him.

1:06.0

He was elected to the Senate in 2006 in the overwhelming success of the Democrats

1:12.0

under the George W Bush administration.

1:15.6

Reelected in 12 with Barack Obama.

1:18.2

Reelected in 18 following the seems to be some tension in Ohio and Salina explains why it is that Sherr Brown

1:36.4

a very successful senator a man has been identified with the working class no

1:41.8

longer is confident that the working class, no longer is confident that the working class, especially on the eastern

1:45.4

side of Ohio, is with him.

1:48.0

Here's Salina Sito, Washington examiner explaining Ohio politics over the last 20 years.

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That's exactly right.

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So the largest of the votes that shared, that lifted

2:02.6

Sharon Brown has been the working class voter.

2:07.0

He has been and prided himself as being the sort of crusader of their working class voter.

2:15.2

However, you know, we can look to Mahoning County.

2:19.1

We've spoken many times about what happened in Youngstown and Black Monday where tens of thousands of

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people lost their jobs. That count, those groupings of counties start, m Mahoning, Trumbull, have all flipped and are now Republican counties.

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