Sherrod Brown would be a GREAT prez candidate. Midwesterner who could win OH for us.

[LBM20]

Brown has the ingredients. We need to be very careful about another east or west coast person. Need someone from the heartland. Brown is great. Blue collar folks we need love him, and so everyone.

Steve Bulloch of Montana is also giving it huge consideration.

These are both very impressive people.

I like them all, but if we want to win then we need to win EVERYWHERE. I would not want another coastal liberal. Let's get someone from middle America. Our national success, as we saw in this election, runs through the midwest.

[manor321]

1. I like him but would be afraid of losing the Senate seat

[LisaL]

3. I rather lose a senate seat than have Trump for another 4 years.

[LeftInTX]

8. He won't have to give up his senate seat to run

If he wins, he will

[allgood33]

46. I like him too. Thought he should have been HRC running mate in 2016 Brown/Klobushar 2020

[Fullduplexxx]

2. What! He's the only dem in ohio

[LisaL]

4. You mean he is the only dem who can win in OH.

Isn't that what we want in a presidential candidate?

[redstateblues]

5. Democratic Senators in red states need to stay put.

Ohio is no longer a swing state. It’s red

[bearsfootball516]

6. Having a Democrat in the White House is more important than 1 senate seat, imo.

[In It to Win It]

10. I think this is all under the assumption that we also win the Senate in 2020

[Politicub]

32. I agree

Brown would make a fantastic president. But he's already an amazing Senator.

[still_one]

7. NO. We cannot afford to lose him in the Senate, and we need him in 2020

[LeftInTX]

9. He's not up for reelection until 2024

He can stay in the senate and run for president.

If he wins, he wins. If not, he's still senator.

[still_one]

14. If he wins, then his Senate seat becomes open. We cannot afford to lose any Senate seats

[In It to Win It]

11. We're winning the senate in 2020

[still_one]

15. Just because the republicans have more Senate seats to be contested does not guarantee that we will

win the Senate.

[In It to Win It]

19. We're winning the senate

[In It to Win It]

12. QUESTION...

If Sherrod Brown does run and win, wouldn’t the governor have to appoint someone from the same party until there’s a special election? Or no?

[still_one]

16. Yes, that is exactly what happens, and it is a republican Governor. There are plenty of good

Democratic candidates. We cannot assume the Senate is a given for us in 2020

[LisaL]

17. So you rather risk the presidency?

Give me a break.

[EffieBlack]

33. I LOVE Sherrod Brown - but he's not the only person in America who could win the presidency

So his not running wouldn't "risk the presidency."

[Blaukraut]

13. How about a McCaskill and Heitkamp ticket? n/t

[LisaL]

20. Really? You think two people that couldn't win their states make for a good ticket?

[Blaukraut]

39. They'd have just as much appeal as Brown, but was trying to make a point

If it's going to be a white Midwesterner, then why not a woman.

[In It to Win It]

21. I don't think they have enough national appeal to win

[LisaL]

24. They didn't even have enough state appeal to win their states.

[EffieBlack]

34. Seriously?

No.

[Blaukraut]

38. Not really. But they're just as legit as Brown, if we're going that way

My pick would be Harris/O'Rourke, actually.

[UniteFightBack]

18. If anything it would be Vice Prez...he will not be the front runner. nt

[grantcart]

22. Agreed.

[Jersey Devil]

23. I don't think Brown is well known enough across the country

I consider myself a political junkie and I know very little about him, although I have lived in the northeast my entire life (NJ and now NC). I have no idea what his signature issues or causes are or anything about his background. But, then again, I knew nothing about Barack Obama when he began running for President, so in the middle of writing this response I think I have changed my mind about it, lol.

[In It to Win It]

26. True but that's because of Obama's charisma.

We didn’t know Obama but Obama made sure we knew him. Obama won us.

If Sherrod Brown has the charisma, I have no doubt him being unknown won’t be a challenge.

[Jersey Devil]

29. Right. I think I would have to hear him speak at least a few times

before deciding if I thought he has what it takes. As it is now, I don't recall that I have ever heard him utter a single word.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

25. He has made it clear that he is not interested in being President!

Besides, he said his wife would divorce him if he did run.

IT'S NOT HAPPENING, PEOPLE.

Am I the only one who knows this?

[still_one]

27. Unless he was saying that to focus on his Senate, I agree with you Peggy it isn't happening.

[In It to Win It]

28. You think she'd divorce him for the good of the country? For the greater good? LOL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

30. I think it was intended as a joke. But he's still not interested.

[GulfCoast66]

31. He has been my top choice for 2 years.

But don’t think he has that Fire in the Belly. An old term for the ego and ambition you have to have to run for that office.

Too bad. He would be unbeatable.

[912gdm]

35. nationally I think he would be unelectable.

I like him a lot, he is my senator. And I would vote for him in a heartbeat, but nationally he is not well known.

And the reason why I know he wouldn't win is petty, but it's his voice. To the average person who doesn't really know anything I think his voice would come off as grating and subconsciously turn people off.

[Power 2 the People]

36. I always thought he should have been HRC's running mate in 2016

He's a fantastic progressive Democrat and a fighter for the working class. There's a good chance he could have gotten Hillary over the hump in his home state of Ohio and the neighboring states of Michigan and Pennsylvania. Trump's razor-thin wins in PA and MI still sting.

We have a really deep bench of solid candidates for 2020. Senator Brown should be among them.

[krawhitham]

37. NO, Ex-wife during divorce said Brown had "struck and bullied me on several different occasions."

Records from the 1986 divorce in Franklin County Common Pleas Court show a searing level of vitriol between Sherrod Brown (named in the court filing as "S. Campbell Brown&quot and his then-wife of seven years. She filed the case in May that year, saying in the complaint that Brown "has been guilty of gross neglect of duty and extreme cruelty" toward her.

She also got a restraining order to keep him from harassing or annoying her and from "doing bodily harm." In a supporting affidavit, she said she was "in fear for the safety and well-being of myself and our children due to (Brown's) physical violence and abusive nature."

She later sought to keep Brown from going further than the curb when he came to pick up their young daughters for visitation. She said in a supporting affidavit that Brown "intimidated, pushed, shoved and bullied" her on several occasions.

In that affidavit, she described an incident on Oct. 11, 1986, in which Brown arrived at her home to pick up his daughters but refused to wait for her to bring the girls out. He "pushed me up against the wall with his arms in order to pass and enter the house," the affidavit said. "He refused to leave when asked and began to say insulting, derogatory things about me, my mothering of my children and my character in front of my friends and children."

She concluded by saying that "I am definitely afraid of my husband, that he has struck and bullied me on several different occasions, he has completely destroyed my peace of mind and that I am extremely intimidated by him."

The acrimony did not end with the divorce decree.

According to a Columbus Dispatch story from April 1989, when Brown was Ohio secretary of state, Brown's ex-wife accused him of malicious destruction of property and filed a police report saying Brown broke the door after pounding on it. She did not follow up with charges.

The Dispatch story also said that Brown assaulted his ex-wife's new husband, Joseph Recchie, grabbing him around the neck and beginning to strangle him. Joseph Recchie filed a complaint but did not follow up with formal charges, the Dispatch reported.

[OhioBlue]

43. You left out that both his ex-wife, Larke Recchie and her husband support

and hold fundraisers for Sherrod and have for years. Larke appeared in a campaign ad FOR Sherrod and said that it was unconscionable that Renacci was using their divorce as part of a smear campaign. She said their divorce was ugly like a lot of divorces and that only angry words were said.

[krawhitham]

44. So you are saying she lied to the police to get a restraining order?

[OhioBlue]

45. Seriously? That is your spin?

I posted what Sherrod's ex-wife and her current husband have said THEMSELVES.

Do you live in Ohio? Did you see the ads that Larke made in which she said there were only "angry words"?

[Hawaii Hiker]

40. I'd rather him stay in senate

Having a senate majority is critical especially in these times (see Merrick Garland)

Besides, we don't need Ohio in presidential elections......Colorado, Nevada, & Virginia are practically blue states now (esp Virginia), focus there should be winning MI, PA, & WI....

[diva77]

41. If we could get rid of fux and wingnut radio, we'd have sooooo many more choices for Dem candidates

[blueinredohio]

42. No he's my senator and you can't have him.

We need him here in Ohio.