Former Democratic Senator Sherrod Brown launched a comeback campaign on Monday as polls suggest Republican Ohio Senator Jon Husted has an early lead. Tyson Shepard, Husted's communications director, wrote in a statement that Husted offers "Ohio's values and solutions to fix a broken Washington."

Democrat Sherrod Brown, who served three terms in the Senate, has decided to run for the Ohio seat JD Vance had before he was elected vice president.

For all of Sherrod Brown’s pro-worker initiatives, some Ohio labor leaders grouse that he should run for governor against the GOP’s Vikram Ramaswamy next year. And iffy labor enthusiasm for a Brown Senate campaign is,