“He's the face, Husted, according to the Brown campaign, the face of data centers.”
Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast · US Politics · October 2026
Context
Dave Weigel of Semafor on Fast Politics, October 2026, on how Democrat Sherrod Brown is campaigning against Sen. Jon Husted in Ohio's Senate race.
Transcript
…not going to win that. But if they lose that by two or three points instead of 15 points, that will indicate that they rolled the Trump wave back. And this is a This is like the wave in the second planet in Interstellar, very slow moving, gigantic wave that just kept crushing them for 10 years.
But don't you don't you think that if anyone can do it, Sherrod is neatly qualified?
…has his record. For example, Democrats get blamed for shipping jobs overseas. That was never Sherrod Brown. He's always a trade protectionist. He's very comfortable bashing big corporations and saying that the government's being rigged to benefit them. Just there are Democrats have to learn that. That's not how he has to learn that. And he has that argument with Trump now and with John Husted. He's the face, Husted, according to the Brown campaign, the face of data centers. And that is something Republicans have adjusted. So an argument I was seeing in Ohio is that Houston saying Brown's a lot of talk, but he didn't achieve the things that we've been able to achieve. For example, the main example, he says, is Brown wanted to stop private equity from buying up homes. And I stopped that. That's my bill. I did it. You saw the same thing in May. As Susan Collins said…
Right. I mean, it's very hard for them to make that case. What other what other like stories of the midterm are you watching besides Ohio states where you are? You know, where you think Democrats really have a shot, where we might be surprised in Iowa, Kansas or in Alaska or where you don't think…
And you think, well, you mentioned you mentioned most of them. The we're at the point where, again, Republicans are triaging and we're seeing who falls off. I am. We're also the fun part of the election. People overanalyze early voting and mail voting.
Right.
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