OH-SEN: Husted holds 6-point lead over Brown in Ohio: Poll

[RandySF]

Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) holds a 6-point lead over former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), according to a poll released days after Brown launched his campaign for Senate.

Husted leads Brown 50 percent to 44 percent, according to an Emerson College poll released Friday. The poll’s margin of error was 3 percentage points.

“In the first public poll following Sherrod Brown’s 2026 campaign kick-off, the former Senator trails the incumbent Jon Husted by six points, though he has a higher name recognition than the first-term Senator,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.

Brown launched his campaign Monday, less than a year after he lost his reelection bid to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) in November.


https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5464695-brown-campaign-husted-lead/

[JBTaurus83]

1. Fingers crossed

This didn't work well for Feingold when he tried it.

[efhmc]

2. Explain, please. Thank you.

[dsc]

3. Feingold was defeated by Johnson in 2010

then Feingold decided to run against Johnson in 2016 and lost again.

[JBTaurus83]

5. Thank you for explaining

I was away for a bit. Yes, my point was that there aren’t many senators that lose and come back to win again. I could be wrong though, and the rules are out the window these days. Ohio has gone hard right in recent years.

[Polybius]

9. Republicans Bob Smith and Scott Brown also tried it and lost

I believe they even ran in other states.

[Polybius]

8. And Ohio is to the right of Wisconsin

I'm afraid it's not going to work.

[EdmondDantes_]

4. Russ Feingold lost to Ron Johnson twice in a similar scenario

Lost as the incumbent, then ran again against Ron Johnson and lost. Slightly different in that Brown would have a different opponent, but also a state that's far more Republican than Wisconsin.

I'm not sure what the overall numbers are for someone holding an office, losing it, and then winning it back are. There are a few obvious cases, Trump and Grover Cleveland.

[JBTaurus83]

6. Even if Brown lost

Given the numbers in the state against us, he would likely be a larger benefit to down ticket races than a random name. So I guess there is that.

[JI7]

7. We can tell how much we lost Ohio by the fact that JD Vance won the state