{"id":11706,"date":"2026-05-06T00:00:57","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/sherrod-brown-secures-ohio-dem-nomination-faces-gops-husted-in-key-battle-for-senate-majority\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T00:00:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T00:00:57","slug":"sherrod-brown-secures-ohio-dem-nomination-faces-gops-husted-in-key-battle-for-senate-majority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euro-tv.ro\/news\/sherrod-brown-secures-ohio-dem-nomination-faces-gops-husted-in-key-battle-for-senate-majority\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherrod Brown secures Ohio Dem nomination, faces GOP&#8217;s Husted in key battle for Senate majority"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Former longtime Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio on Tuesday won his party&#8217;s 2026 Senate nomination, the Associated Press reports.<\/p>\n<p>Brown, who served three decades in Congress before being defeated for re-election in 2024 by now-GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno, will face off in this year&#8217;s general election with Republican Sen. John Husted, Ohio&#8217;s former lieutenant governor who was appointed to replace Vice President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/jd-vance\">JD Vance<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The general election winner will fill the final two years of Vance&#8217;s Senate term. Vance, who was elected to the Senate in 2022, stepped down from the chamber after he and President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/person\/donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a> won the 2024 election for president and vice president.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/elections\"><strong><u>DEMOCRACY \u201926: STAY UP TO DATE WITH THE FOX NEWS ELECTION HUB<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Vance traveled to his home state Tuesday morning, stopping at a polling station in Cincinnati to cast a ballot in the primary.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate race <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/us-regions\/midwest\/ohio\">in Ohio<\/a> is one of a handful that will decide if Republicans successfully defend their slim majority in the chamber, or if the Democrats win back control for the first time in four years.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/six-months-midterms-senate-seats-could-tip-balance-power\"><strong><u>SIX MONTHS TILL MIDTERMS: THE TEN RACES THAT WILL DETERMINE THE SENATE&#8217;S MAJORITY<\/u><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans currently control <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate\">the Senate<\/a> 53-47.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/person\/b\/sen-sherrod-brown\">Brown defeated<\/a> long-shot rival Ron Kincaid, an IT professional and Special Olympics coach, to capture the Democratic Senate nomination. Husted ran unopposed for the Republican Party&#8217;s Senate nomination.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/trumps-grip-gop-tested-state-senators-defied-president-challenged-key-primaries\"><strong>TRUMP&#8217;S GRIP OVER GOP FACES BIG TESTS IN THIS STATE&#8217;S PRIMARY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once a top general election battleground state, Ohio has shifted to the right over the past decade, with Trump carrying the state by 11 points in the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>But this year&#8217;s races for the Senate and governor are expected to be very competitive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> &#8211; FOX NEWS<\/p>\n<p>This article appeared on the website foxnews.com<br \/>\nThis article is taken based on Law no. 8\/1996 of Romania. News does not enjoy copyright, so they can be taken, this is our right to take news and information in its entirety and distribute them further. 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