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Yahoo
6 days ago
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- Yahoo
Sherrod Brown to launch U.S. Senate bid against Ohio Sen. Jon Husted
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Sherrod Brown will run for U.S. Senate in 2026, seeking a political comeback in Ohio as Democrats hope for a sweeping rejection of President Donald Trump and his party, according to multiple news reports. The decision by Brown, 72, came months after he lost his U.S. Senate seat to Sen. Bernie Moreno in one of the country's most expensive races. This time, Ohio's most beloved Democrat will take on Sen. Jon Husted, who joined the Senate earlier this year after serving as lieutenant governor. first reported that Brown has shared his decision with Ohio labor leaders. Politico and Axios also reported his plans, citing unnamed sources. More: 11 pivotal Senate races for 2026 The Statehouse Bureau, a USA TODAY Network partner, is trying to confirm the news independently. A spokesperson for Brown did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Husted to replace Vice President JD Vance. Husted must run in November 2026 to keep his seat. Whoever wins in 2026 will be up for reelection two years later. Brown's decision ended speculation that he would run for governor against the presumptive GOP nominee, Vivek Ramaswamy. Former Ohio Department of Health Director Amy Acton is the only Democrat in that race, although former Congressman Tim Ryan is mulling a bid. Running for governor would have placed Brown at the top of Ohio's ticket in 2026. He also could have sat out the election and focused on a nonprofit he launched earlier this year. Instead, Brown opted to pursue a familiar job and the chance to help his party flip the Senate. Despite Brown's loss in 2024, Democrats in Ohio and nationally view him as key to breaking the hold Republicans have on the Buckeye State. GOP leaders control control every statewide executive office, but they're all term limited in 2026 and playing musical chairs in an effort to maintain power. Brown received 117,250 more votes than former Vice President Kamala Harris. Democrats contend that math will be in their favor when the president isn't on the ballot and GOP candidates face questions about Medicaid cuts, immigration raids and the widespread firing of federal employees. Husted, for his part, has been a reliable supporter of Trump's agenda since he took office. He supported the budget bill that slashed $1 trillion from Medicaid, eliminated taxes on tips, increased the child tax credit and enacted tax cuts that primarily benefit high earners. This story will be updated. State government reporter Haley BeMiller can be reached at hbemiller@ or @haleybemiller on X. What do you think about Sherrod Brown running for U.S. Senate? This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Sherrod Brown to launch Ohio Senate Bid against Jon Husted
CNN
25-06-2025
- Politics
- CNN
Polls close in New York City, where Democratic primary voters hope to pick the next mayor
Polls have closed in New York City in Tuesday's contentious Democratic mayoral primary, which became a two-man contest between a former governor attempting a political comeback and a democratic socialist looking to boost far-left policies. Andrew Cuomo and Zohran Mamdani were seen as the leading contenders in an 11-candidate field. Their matchup became a proxy battle between the Democratic establishment and the progressive wing of the party, as well as a fight over who's best positioned to push back against President Donald Trump, a native New Yorker. Under New York City's ranked-choice voting system, voters were able to rank up to five candidates. Mamdani listed several other progressives he would rank and campaigned together with city Comptroller Brad Lander, while Cuomo said Tuesday that he voted just for himself. Only first-choice results will be released Tuesday, and if no candidate wins a majority, the first look at the ranked-choice results won't be released until July 1. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman, has campaigned on policies such as rent freezes and a free city bus service. Cuomo has pitched himself as an experienced moderate focused on public safety. Mamdani's detractors have argued his limited legislative experience, progressive policies and criticisms of Israel make him too extreme for the city. Cuomo's critics have pointed to the wave of nursing home deaths during the pandemic when he was governor and the close to a dozen sexual harassment allegations that led to his resignation in disgrace in 2021. Cuomo has denied the allegations. The primary could also give a jolt of energy to whichever wing of the party emerges victorious. Mamdani has been endorsed by independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders and New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Several moderate Democrats, meanwhile, have backed Cuomo in part to stop Mamdani or at least blunt his momentum. Groups such as Third Way, a center-left think tank, have warned that a Mamdani victory would hurt Democrats. And high-profile Democrats from outside the city have weighed in to support Cuomo, including South Carolina Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn and former President Bill Clinton, under whom Cuomo served as housing secretary. Regardless of Tuesday's result, both Mamdani and Cuomo could still appear on the November general-election ballot. Cuomo plans to run as a third-party candidate if he loses and Mamdani could run as the candidate of the Working Families Party. That would set up a crowded general election race that would also include GOP nominee Curtis Sliwa, independent candidate Jim Walden and incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who skipped the Democratic primary to run as an independent. Other top candidates in the race are Lander, New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams, former Comptroller Scott Stringer and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie. John reported from Washington.
Fox News
24-06-2025
- Politics
- Fox News
Trump front-and-center as nation's biggest city holds primary election for mayor
He's not on the ballot, but President Donald Trump is front-and-center in the city where he was born and made his fame, as heavily blue New York City holds its Democratic Party primary for mayor. And in the nation's most populous city, where Democrats for generations have dominated the political landscape, Trump has been the boogeyman on the mayoral campaign trail. "LA's in chaos. Imagine it's Times Square. Trump's coming for New York. Who do you think can stop him?" said the narrator in an ad earlier this month by former Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. "Trump's at the city gates," the narrator in Cuomo's ad warned. "We need someone experienced to slam them shut." Cuomo was spotlighting the recent protests in Los Angeles, sparked by immigration raids carried out by ICE at the Trump administration's direction, to raise warnings about Trump and showcase his own experience. The former three-term governor of New York, who resigned from office in 2021 amid multiple scandals and is now working to pull off a political comeback, was arguing that the president had "declared war" on the Big Apple and other cities across the country and suggested Trump may eventually send troops into New York City. Cuomo, who said recently that, as mayor, he'd mount a national campaign to try and thwart Trump's agenda, vows to protect New York City from what he suggests is a possible future federal crackdown against immigration protests. And on the eve of the primary, Cuomo told a large crowd of supporters at a union hall that Democrats need to "stand strong, stand united, stand tall" against Trump. It's not just Cuomo. Most of the other candidates in the 11-candidate Democratic mayoral field have also taken aim at Trump and showcased the steps they'd take to push back against the president. And Trump was a top topic at the final primary debate earlier this month. And that was before Trump further dominated headlines this past weekend by launching military strikes against Iran. While national and at times even international events and figures often impact the campaign trail in New York City, Marist University Institute for Public Opinion director Lee M. Miringoff noted that "the fact that Trump is so front-and-center is so unusual." Cuomo's commercial, part of what his campaign said was major ad buy, came as progressive Zohran Mamdani was surging in the latest public opinion polls, closing the gap with the more moderate former governor. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assembly member from Queens, is a democratic socialist originally from Uganda. His primary bid was boosted earlier this month after he landed an endorsement from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the progressive rock star and New York City's most prominent leader on the left, and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the progressive champion and two-time Democratic presidential nominee runner-up. With multiple candidates on the left running in the primary, the endorsements by Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders aimed to consolidate the support of progressive voters behind Mamdani. The 67-year-old Cuomo, for weeks, has been questioning Mamdani's experience leading New York City. Cuomo's campaign has criticized Mamdani as a "dangerously inexperienced legislator" while touting that the former governor "managed a state and managed crises, from COVID to Trump." Mamdani is also spotlighting the president, as he aims to tie Cuomo to Trump by pointing out that many of the former governor's donors had backed Trump in last year's presidential election. "Oligarchy is on the ballot. Andrew Cuomo is the candidate of a billionaire class that is suffocating our democracy and forcing the working class out of our city," Mamdani's campaign argued in an email to supporters. Trump and his administration were also in the New York City mayoral campaign spotlight last week when New York City Comptroller Brad Lander, who is in a distant third place in the most recent polls, was arrested in Manhattan by Department of Homeland Security agents. Lander was detained for allegedly assaulting a federal officer as he tried to escort a defendant out of an immigration court. Temperatures are forecast to reach 100 degrees in New York on Tuesday as the city holds its primary. The dangerously high temperatures may keep some older voters from heading to the polls. Because of that possibility, the heatwave could affect turnout in a race that may come down to Cuomo's union support and campaign structure versus Mandani's volunteer forces. New York City election officials said that more than 384,000 Democrats cast ballots in early voting, which ended on Sunday. The election is being conducted using a ranked-choice voting system in which voters rank candidates by preference on their ballots. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the lowest vote-getter is dropped, with that candidate's votes reallocated to voters' next-highest choices. The process is repeated until one candidate cracks 50%. Mamdani is hoping that the ranked-choice process boosts his chances against Cuomo. New York City's primary comes as the Democratic Party works to escape from the political wilderness, following last year's elections, when the party lost control of the White House, the Senate majority and failed to win back control of the House from the GOP. And it comes as the party works to resist Trump's sweeping and controversial second-term agenda. Miringoff said the results of the primary will be seen as a barometer of which way the Democratic Party is headed, towards the center if Cuomo wins and towards the left if Mamdani is victorious. "Because it's New York and it's a very blue city and everything that happens is magnified, I think we're going to be hearing a lot about the future of the Democratic Party and which way it should define itself, going towards the midterms," Miringoff said. The center-left Democrat-aligned group the Third Way said in a memo they were "deeply alarmed" over the prospect of a Mamdani victory. "A Mamdani win for such a high-profile office would be a devastating blow in the fight to defeat Trumpism," the group argued. The winner of the Democratic Party primary is traditionally seen as the overwhelming frontrunner in the November general election in the Democrat-dominated city. However, this year, the general election campaign may be a bit more unpredictable. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, a moderate Democrat elected in 2021, is running for re-election as an independent. Adams earlier this year dropped his Democratic primary bid as his approval ratings sank to historic lows. Adams' poll numbers were sinking even before he was indicted last year on five counts, which accused the mayor of bribery and fraud as part of an alleged "long-running" scheme to personally profit from contacts with foreign officials. The mayor made repeated overtures to President Donald Trump, and the Justice Department earlier this year dismissed the corruption charges, so Adams could seemingly work with the Trump administration on its illegal immigration crackdown.
