Jessica Anderson
The 71st district has been my home for over 21 years & I look forward to representing it as Delegate.
“Husted is going to have to backfill on election day … with base Republicans to overcome the independent movement likely to Brown. So that's weird, right? Because it's a red state where independents are not being persuaded to vote for the status quo. They're breaking against it. And there's a chance that if Husted loses, I don't think he will, but if Husted loses, it's going to be because of independents, not the Republican base.”
The Truth with Lisa Boothe · US Politics · October 2026
Context
Jessica Anderson, president of the Sentinel Action Fund, a Republican get-out-the-vote group, on The Truth with Lisa Boothe, October 29, 2026. She was reading Ohio early-vote modeling in the Senate race between Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown.
Transcript
…heard. The president is barnstorming the country, getting his people out. So the election is not over. All of these big Senate battleground races are still winnable by Republicans. And I think that is really important. And that speaks to how tight these races actually are from a numbers standpoint.
…like writ large or... You know, can we, you know, obviously it's not election day, things can change. But like in looking at the data and some of these returns, are there any lessons to learn where we are now? Or like, I guess, how would you read that? Because that's kind of a confusing electorate.
…takes into consideration public sentiment to then try to estimate, okay, of these 1.2 million ballots that have been returned, we think about 41% are GOP, 43% Dem, about 15% Independent. When you cross that with, okay, are they likely Husted, likely Brown, that's where it gets interesting and you actually see more Independence in Ohio breaking for Brown, which is not good for Republicans. So Husted is going to have to backfill on election day and with the remaining days of early vote through Sunday, he's going to have to backfill with base Republicans to overcome the independent movement likely to brown. So that's weird, right? Because it's a red state where independents are not being persuaded to to vote for the status quo. They're breaking against it. And there's a chance that if Husted loses, I don't think he will, but if Husted…
So I consider myself, you know, conservative, like a, you know, common sense conservative, common sense Republican, right?
This seems to be an election.
Cycle where the more moderate candidate, regardless of the state, is being rewarded.