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Start free trial →The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show · US Politics · October 2026
Sen. Jon Husted, the Republican candidate in Ohio's Senate race, on the Clay Travis and Buck Sexton show, October 28, 2026, on early-vote numbers. He had just compared 2026 turnout to 2022, when Republicans won Ohio statewide races by wide margins.
…for gas and oil and electricity. President being here really helps us get the message out because he won Ohio by 11 points. If we get those same voters to turn out, which it looks like we are, the early voting numbers are on track for us, right where we need them to be to win, all of it's helpful.
…as early as they can. What are those early voting numbers telling you? And we got a big audience all throughout the state of Ohio, Cincinnati's listening, Columbus, and also Cleveland. What would you tell everybody listening right now in Ohio they need to do and what the data is showing you so far?
Well, they need to get out and vote. And I have fresh data here. I'm looking right at it. It basically says that the turnout in 2026 is the same as the turnout it was in 2022. It's slightly elevated. in terms of like, we've got 120, 20% of the people or 120% of the early vote is, is outpacing where it was two years ago. But the mix in terms of Republicans and Democrats is right where it was in 2022. And what happened in 2022, JD Vance won by seven, Governor DeWine and I won by 25. I'm not predicting that we're going to win by 25 or seven. There are other issues. It's a midterm election in which the Republicans are in charge, which makes it harder to But but the numbers look good. And if vote if literally if Republicans get out to vote like they have done in the past, we will win.
Just wondering what you can tell us about the national Democrat effort to infuse cash outside dollars. And I'm sure media attention. How have they been trying to make Ohioans vote? forget what it's like to have Democrats in charge? What kind of campaigns are they running and where's the money…
Well, they're hiding a lot of their candidates, frankly. They're not debating. They're not doing a lot of public appearances. They're not doing a lot of difficult media interviews because they don't want to talk. They just want to try to blame everything that's going wrong in the world on…
But is Sherrod Brown, is he doing the Biden thing of, I've been around forever, so of course I'm moderate, even though if he becomes a senator, he's going to vote with the radical left that controls his party. 99% of the time. Is that his, what's his move? I mean, you're mentioning that they're…