Last month, CNN reported on 10 seats that are most likely to flip in the 2024 election, including Brown, who has held the seat since 2007.
Tom Zawistowski, who leads the We the People Convention, tells AFN he agrees with that political analysis.
“And so we've got to make that happen,” he says of Ohio’s conservative voters. “The challenge we're going to have is who is our candidate to run against Sherrod Brown."
Sen. Brown, 70, is a longtime Ohio politician whose political career dates back to the 1970s. He famously defeated Sen. Mike Dewine in 2006 to win the seat and last won re-election in 2018. In that most recent election, Brown defeated U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci 53%-46%.
One prominent name running against Brown is Frank LaRose, the Ohio secretary of state, who last won re-election by 20 points. Also running in the GOP primary are businessman Bernie Moreno and state Sen. Matt Dolan.
Under current Ohio law, Democrats and Republicans can cross over and vote in the other party’s primary but legislators are debating a bill that would require a change of party affiliation, Zawistowki says. That would mess up plans by Democrats, he advises, who plan to vote for Dolan, a moderate, in next year’s Republican primary.
