All posts tagged "Sherrod Brown"

Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is facing outrage after he used a family's tragedy to try to score political points with an attack ad.

According to reporting by The New York Times, Husted tried to attack his Democratic opponent, Sherrod Brown, with an ad that framed a fatal car crash, just outside Columbus, Ohio, as the result of immigration policies. Now, relatives of Lynnea, Luke, and Logan Soposki, the family who died in the April crash, are angered by Husted and his campaign.

"What we all want is to be able to grieve in peace and privacy, and for our family to not be used in such a classless way by a politician, especially without being consulted," Jesse Mallen, the brother of Lynnea Soposki, told The Times. "We certainly would not have said yes, but quite frankly, I think they knew that."...

A new Fox News poll could signal a serious problem for President Donald Trump, CNN anchor Dana Bash reported on Thursday.

Bash referred to new polling from Fox News showing Ohio's Senate race could put Republicans in a tough position ahead of the midterm elections after Trump's approval rating has appeared to drop.

"That is a big flashing red sign for the president and for the Republicans on the ballot in this very red state of Ohio," Bash said. "This is the president's approval rating in Ohio right now. It is 42 percent, 42 percent approval. And the disapproval is 57 percent."...

A GOP senator trying to keep his seat in a contentious battleground state was hit with a damning attack ad calling out his connections to sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein.

"Of all 535 members of Congress, who's taken the most money from associates of Jeffrey Epstein?" the attack ad opened. "Jon Husted, that's who."

The opponent of Sen. Husted (R-OH), Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown, approved the message, which was paid for by Friends of Sherrod Brown. Axios congressional reporter Andrew Solender described it as "a doozy of an ad."...

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Outside spending in the 2024 election cycle has surpassed $1 billion, outpacing prior election cycles, according to a new OpenSecrets analysis of federal campaign finance reports.

Super PACs and other outside groups that can raise and spend unlimited sums of money have poured about $1.1 billion into 2024 federal elections as of Aug. 15 — nearly twice what similar groups spent over the same period in the 2020 presidential election cycle when independent expenditures hit an all-time record. ...

WASHINGTON – Henry A. Kissinger is gone, and many lawmakers on Capitol Hill hope he’s soon forgotten.

Kissinger was 100 years old when he died at his Connecticut home Wednesday.

While Kissinger is hailed by many for helping open relations with Maoist China – he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1977 – he’s also decried as a “war criminal” for orchestrating an illegal bombing campaign in Cambodia that left hundreds of thousands of innocents dead....

Candidates running for the presidency and Congress just released some gaudy new fundraising numbers, but Raw Story Editor-in-Chief Dave Levinthal warned to view the big-dollar totals with a healthy dose of skepticism.

"You have to have money in order to be competitive. You absolutely have to have it. If you don't have money, the chances of you winning are next to nil," Levinthal told host Justin Robert Young on the "Politics! Politics! Politics!" podcast. "But money is not a panacea. Money will not alone win you a race. Just ask Michael Bloomberg in the last presidential election. There has to be a confluence of factors — money, popularity, the factors on the ground, the news of the moment — that conspire in a positive way for you to be successful as a candidate."

In this regard, Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2024 presidential race, with none of the other GOP candidates able to break through in any meaningful way, Levinthal told Young — except, perhaps, for one....