Scoop: Sherrod Brown met with Schumer in Ohio amid 2026 Senate push

[In It to Win It]

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and former Sen. Sherrod Brown met in Ohio this weekend, as Brown weighs a possible comeback bid to flip a GOP Senate seat in the state, Axios has learned.

Why it matters: Schumer has lobbied Brown for months to run. Fresh off a major recruiting victory in North Carolina, he wants to expand that luck to Ohio.

Brown, 72, lost re-election last year, and is considering both a Senate and gubernatorial bid in Ohio, according to sources familiar with his thinking.

The former three-term Democratic senator is likely his party's best chance at running a competitive 2026 campaign in the state.

Former Vice President Kamala Harris lost Ohio last year by over 10 points. Brown lost by just under four points.

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/28/schumer-sherrod-brown-ohio-senate-meeting-2026

[SSJVegeta]

1. He will probably win if he runs. He has way more credibility and name recognition that whoever it is keeping the seat

Warm

[Jack Valentino]

2. I hope he does run again for the US Senate--- he is the only possible candidate

who would have much chance in Ohio...


Governor??? think he has a better chance of becoming a US Senator again

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Run, Sherrod, Run! Either office will do. Pick one you really like and Run! n/t

[Cha]

4. Good News... TY Sen Schumer for helping out

here.. and Best of Good Luck to Sherrod Brown for Running again in Ohio!.

[sheshe2]

5. I agree on both counts, Cha.

Though I sure hope people don't say that Sherrod is old and in the way. Or that he needs to step aside and let the new ones take over. 🤔

He is a good man and was a great Senator.

One of his landmark peices of legislation:

WASHINGTON, DC –On Saturday night, the U.S. Senate passed U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio) bipartisan legislation that will ensure that public servants and their families can receive full Social Security benefits after two previous statutes reduced them. Brown’s bill, the Social Security Fairness Act, will repeal the Windfall Elimination Provision (WEP) and the Government Pension Offset (GPO) from the Social Security Act. Both of those statutes significantly reduced benefits for nearly 3 million Americans, including 241,755 Ohioans, many of whom are police officers, firefighters, bus drivers, teachers and state, county and local government workers.

https://www.perrytribune.com/news/senate-passes-brown-s-social-security-fairness-act/article_47f7cce2-c140-11ef-b566-47bd3a36338f.html

[Cha]

7. "Senate passes Brown's Social Security Fairness Act"

Last edited Tue Jul 29, 2025, 02:42 AM - Edit history (1)

Wow, just Before he left the Senate.. Maybe Ohioans swill pay Moe attention to what he stands for the next time?

Mahalo, she

[sheshe2]

8. I have no idea where that headline came from!!! 😱

Fixed it. 🤪

TY, Cha.

[Cha]

10. Figured.. File that in the

Stuff happens folder.

I fixed mine, too.

[sheshe2]

13. ...

[Cha]

15. Hey Aloha, she..

Speaking of what was in your original post...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20520802

[sheshe2]

6. Yes please!

[Puppyjive]

9. I'm going to be the odd man out here

He is too old.

[Cha]

11. No, Sherrod Brown is Not "too old", And, he

has a lot going on for him.

Experience, Qualifications, Good name recognition

Being "young" isn't everything.

[Puppyjive]

12. Being to old is why we lost

lesson learned from the last election.

[Cha]

14. 72 isn't "too old".

[sheshe2]

16. Kamala was to old?

[Puppyjive]

17. Biden was too old

She came to the game too late.

[In It to Win It]

19. I don't think that was the reason Sherrod Brown lost in Ohio.

The state has been moving rightward. Democrats haven't won a statewide since 2020, and that we won was just one race for a state Supreme Court seat in a nonpartisan race. That same justice ran as a Democrat in a partisan race for Chief Justice (because Supreme Court elections are now partisan elections in Ohio), and lost. Democrats won no statewide races in 2024 and 2022, and no partisan statewide race in 2020.

[dsc]

20. Our record in partisan statewide elections this millennium

If you count 2000 President Gore lost Senate lost
2002 Five statewide offices all lost (Gov, Auditor, Sec of State, Treasurer, AG)
2004 President Kerry lost senate lost
2006 great year won all five statewide won, Brown won for Senate
2008 President Obama won
2010 Lost all five statewide senate lost
2012 President Obama won Brown won for Senate
2014 Lost all five statewide
2016 President Clinton lost lost senate
2018 All five statewide lost Brown won for Senate
2020 President Biden lost
2022 All five statewide lost senate lost (Vance won this)
2024 President Harris lost Brown lost for Senate

So aside from 2006, which was the Democrats best midterm since at least 1982, the only people who won statewide in Ohio were Brown and Obama this millennium. Frankly Brown's birth certificate could have been signed by Eve and I would still support him given that record.

[themaguffin]

18. He probably has the best chance given his name recognition and

I would hope more Ohians appreciate what they had with him as senator now that he's gone and they got the used car red hat salesman.