A Sherrod Brown defeat could cost Democrats their Senate majority.
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Sherrod Brown Courts Trump Voters to Hold Ohio Senate Seat Vital for Democrats
The only Democratic lawmaker elected statewide in Ohio seeks a fourth term in a race that could determine which party controls the Senate.
Josh Ayers is the union shop chairman at an Ohio battery factory, just the kind of blue-collar worker Democrats long relied on but have lost to Donald Trump’s “America first” populist message.
Still, the two-time Trump voter came to a local United Auto Workers hall to hear Sherrod Brown, a Democratic senator in a close race for a fourth term, rail against Chinese electric cars and free-trade deals. Brown’s support for organized labor helped earn him Ayers’ vote in the past but the 47-year-old is not so sure this time.