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The case for Democrats winning the industrial Midwest
Politico:As potential presidential candidate Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) gets ready to tour four early-primary states this week, one of the leading voices trying to convince him to run hopes he’ll get into the race right away.
“We want him to make a decision soon,” said Nan Whaley, the democratic mayor of Dayton, Ohio, and the co-chair of a committee called Draft Sherrod Brown. “We recognize that he needs to take this time, so we’re trying to get the message out while he’s doing his process personally and publicly.”
Brown will visit Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina as he tests whether the “Dignity of Work” campaign message that helped him win re-election to the Senate in 2018 will resonate with democratic voters eager to unseat Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
“I think it’s the message that should be central to the Democratic Party for 2020,” Whaley told the Women Rule podcast. “As a party, we have got to figure out a way to win the industrial Midwest. And there’s a lot of discussion about Ohio, whether or not it’s a red state or not. I don’t think it is, but I think we have to have a candidate that will be able to talk to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, those communities and those states, and they’re very similar to Ohio.”
“We want him to make a decision soon,” said Nan Whaley, the democratic mayor of Dayton, Ohio, and the co-chair of a committee called Draft Sherrod Brown. “We recognize that he needs to take this time, so we’re trying to get the message out while he’s doing his process personally and publicly.”
Brown will visit Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina as he tests whether the “Dignity of Work” campaign message that helped him win re-election to the Senate in 2018 will resonate with democratic voters eager to unseat Donald Trump in the 2020 election.
“I think it’s the message that should be central to the Democratic Party for 2020,” Whaley told the Women Rule podcast. “As a party, we have got to figure out a way to win the industrial Midwest. And there’s a lot of discussion about Ohio, whether or not it’s a red state or not. I don’t think it is, but I think we have to have a candidate that will be able to talk to Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, those communities and those states, and they’re very similar to Ohio.”
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