Tag: Brown, Sherrod

Sherrod Brown Embarks on the Race of His Life

Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, has always had the luxury of running for election in remarkably good years for his party. He won his seat in 2006, during the backlash to the Iraq War, won re-election in 2012, the last time a Democrat carried the state, and did so again in 2018, amid a […]

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Steve Daines, the Trump Whisperer

In the 2022 midterms, Donald Trump made life hell for Republican Party leaders trying to take back the Senate and win governor’s races in swing states like Arizona and Pennsylvania. In multiple primaries, the MAGA king backed unfit, unappealing players who bent the knee to him and then belly-flopped in the November elections. Remember Herschel […]

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Republicans Are Counting on Millionaires to Flip the Senate

Since his rise to the presidency, Donald J. Trump has claimed enormous wealth as proof that he is an anti-establishment ally of the working class, not beholden to corporate donors or special interests. The Republican Party, eyeing control of the Senate next year, is trying to mimic his success with a cohort of candidates who […]

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Four Takeaways From the Biggest Primary Night Since Super Tuesday

It was the biggest primary night since Super Tuesday, and there were few surprises in the results. Bernie Moreno won the Republican Senate primary in Ohio, wielding the powerful endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump to become the Republican nominee in perhaps the most consequential race in the battle for the Senate this November. […]

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Bipartisan Tax Bill Is Stuck in Senate Limbo After Broad House Approval

A bipartisan bill to expand the child tax credit and reinstate a set of business tax breaks has stalled in the Senate after winning overwhelming approval in the House, as Republicans balk at legislation they regard as too generous to low-income families. The delay of the $78 billion tax package has imperiled the measure’s chances […]

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Top US Senators Urge Stores to Stop Sellng Illicit Vapes

The chairmen of five key Senate committees on Thursday warned the chief executives of major convenience stores and wholesalers to stop sales of illicit flavored vaping products that they called “widespread violations of federal law.” The senators voiced their concerns in letters to the companies, amplifying the frustration among some lawmakers in Congress over the […]

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Could Abortion Rights Rescue Red-State Democrats in the Senate?

In the opening minutes of a debate during Sherrod Brown’s successful 2006 campaign for Senate, the Republican incumbent attacked him over “partial-birth abortion,” a phrase often weaponized by conservatives at the time to paint Democrats as somewhere between immoral and murderous. Mr. Brown, a Democrat from northeast Ohio in the House at the time, glanced […]

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Biden’s Pacific Trade Pact Suffers Setback After Criticism From Congress

The Biden administration has pulled back on plans to announce the conclusion of substantial portions of a new Asian-Pacific trade pact at an international meeting in San Francisco this week, after several top Democratic lawmakers threatened to oppose the deal, people familiar with the matter said. The White House had been aiming to announce that […]

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J.D. Vance Is Not Your Usual Political Opportunist

J.D. Vance was trying to find his groove. I had just shown up at his office last week to interview the Ohio Republican about his first nine months in the Senate, where he has proved curiously hard to pigeonhole. As we sat down, Mr. Vance — at 39, one of the chamber’s youngest members — […]

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