Republicans will work hard to nationalize Jon Tester and Sherrod Brown's reelections, but engaging on that message does Brown and Tester no good in their red states.
hold the keys to the Senate Democratic majority. Their political survival may rest on voters not seeing them that way., which followed years of other Democratic defeats and retirements in red and purple states, the genial Montanan and fiery Ohioan are the linchpins of Democrats’ long-shot bid to keep the Senate this fall.
For now, Democrats feel the rough Ohio GOP primary delivered them a more favorable result than Montana will. Donald Trump-backed Bernie Moreno won Ohio’s Republican contest this week, giving Brown a general-election foe who his party saw as preferable to the race’s other two candidates. Which helps explain why, when asked if it was important to keep the Senate under Democratic control, Tester replied: “It’s more important to have good honest leadership from Montana in the United States Senate. I don’t think you’ll get that with a newly minted millionaire moving to the state that thinks they’re Montana.”
One big asset for Moreno: The undeniable reality that no Democrat would have an easy time in an Ohio Senate race, particularly in a presidential election year. In an interview during his Washington visit, Moreno indicated that he’s eager to nationalize the race to tank Brown’s appeal across the aisle.
It’s not impossible — GOP Sen. Susan Collins did it in Maine in 2020 — but it will be a far harder task than he faced in his 2018 win over Rosendale. As Sen. put it: “They will be nationalized races, whether the Democrats want it or not.” Both Brown and Tester won in 2012 alongside then-President Barack Obama, with Tester handily outperforming the former president and both Brown and Obama winning Ohio. Both senators again over-performed in the 2018 midterms.
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