S4 Ep24: Cleveland Rocks (with Henry Gomez)

The Focus Group Podcast

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

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🗓️ 16 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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The Republican primary for U.S. Senate in Ohio is heating up...unexpectedly. Cleveland-area businessman Bernie Moreno is on the ropes despite Trump's endorsement. And despite voters being mad about the Cleveland Guardians (née Indians) name change, a member of the ownership family is still in the ballgame (pun intended). NBC News senior political reporter and Ohio native Henry Gomez joins Sarah to break down this primary and preview what will be one of November's biggest Senate races.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah
0:28.4	Longwell publisher of the Bull Work and this week we are taking you to Ohio and since I went to college in
0:36.5	Ohio Kenyan I may have mentioned it I'm gonna educate you on the state that
0:41.4	educated me good one for my producer. Some people think Ohio has
0:45.8	gotten red enough that it's pretty much fool's gold for Democrats, but incumbent
0:50.1	Democratic senator Sherrod Brown is running for re-election and it's going to be
0:54.3	one of the biggest Senate races in the country in November. So we're going to
0:58.6	size up the Republicans vying to run against him and the primary is on Tuesday.
1:03.0	There's a car salesman endorsed by Trump.
1:08.0	There's a Normi Secretary of State that's trying the MAGA hat on for size, and a wealthy state senator who somehow still has a shot.
1:17.0	And the voters have very loose opinions about all of them.
1:22.0	My guest today is Henry Gomez, Ohio-based senior political
1:26.0	reporter at NBC News who can help us make sense of what is going on in Ohio.
1:31.0	Henry, thanks for being here.
1:33.3	Yeah, my pleasure.
1:34.0	Thank you for having me.
1:35.4	All right.
1:36.2	So how does this primary compare to the one in 2022?
1:40.6	That would just seem to have more flare in it than this one.
1:43.4	This seems a little sleepier.
1:45.0	What's going on?
1:46.4	Yeah, and I totally would agree with that assessment.
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