Jon Husted makes big-tent pitch to Ohio union workers: ‘Don’t have to fight over the pie’
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Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is rejecting the class warfare-fueled campaign of ex-Sen. Sherrod Brown as the two battle for blue-collar votes in Ohio’s marquee Senate race.
Husted, appointed last year to replace Vice President JD Vance in the Senate, has a simple message for the more than 600,000 union members who live and work in Ohio and could prove decisive to his race against Brown this fall: “Businesses have to succeed for labor to succeed.”
“The UAW can’t succeed unless GM succeeds and Ford succeeds,” he told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “The construction trades can’t succeed unless there’s new investment in manufacturing equipment. The operating engineers can’t succeed unless there’s an investment in infrastructure.”
Husted, who is campaigning heavily on President Donald Trump’s signature tax law, is making a pro-business pitch that the labor movement has traditionally viewed with skepticism, and one that Brown, who is attempting a political comeback after losing his Senate seat in 2024, has criticized as a handout to the rich.
But Husted is betting that Brown’s message, which casts the political moment as a struggle between corporations and their workers, will fall flat as rank-and-file union members show a growing willingness to back Republicans.
Almost half of Ohio’s union households voted for President Donald Trump in the last presidential election, according to 2024 exit polling, while labor leaders have begun to defect from Brown, too. Most recently, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers announced its support for Husted, marking the fourth union to switch sides in the race to date.
SHERROD BROWN LOSES FOURTH UNION ENDORSEMENT TO REPUBLICAN JON HUSTED
“They know they can count on me,” Husted said. “They can trust me, that I have worked with both business and labor to show them that we don’t have to fight over the pie like Sherrod Brown wants to do, that we can grow the pie, and everybody can get more work, higher wages, and see growth in their businesses when we all work together.”
Husted is pointing to his long reputation in the state to explain the labor endorsements. His career in Ohio politics extends back to the early 2000s, and he served six years as Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R-OH) lieutenant governor before his appointment to the Senate last January.
Husted also benefits from a rightward shift in Ohio’s voting electorate that has made statewide office increasingly difficult to obtain for Democrats. Brown, in fact, was …
Who benefits from this decision?
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is rejecting the class warfare-fueled campaign of ex-Sen. Sherrod Brown as the two battle for blue-collar votes in Ohio’s marquee Senate race.
Husted, appointed last year to replace Vice President JD Vance in the Senate, has a simple message for the more than 600,000 union members who live and work in Ohio and could prove decisive to his race against Brown this fall: “Businesses have to succeed for labor to succeed.”
“The UAW can’t succeed unless GM succeeds and Ford succeeds,” he told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “The construction trades can’t succeed unless there’s new investment in manufacturing equipment. The operating engineers can’t succeed unless there’s an investment in infrastructure.”
Husted, who is campaigning heavily on President Donald Trump’s signature tax law, is making a pro-business pitch that the labor movement has traditionally viewed with skepticism, and one that Brown, who is attempting a political comeback after losing his Senate seat in 2024, has criticized as a handout to the rich.
But Husted is betting that Brown’s message, which casts the political moment as a struggle between corporations and their workers, will fall flat as rank-and-file union members show a growing willingness to back Republicans.
Almost half of Ohio’s union households voted for President Donald Trump in the last presidential election, according to 2024 exit polling, while labor leaders have begun to defect from Brown, too. Most recently, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers announced its support for Husted, marking the fourth union to switch sides in the race to date.
SHERROD BROWN LOSES FOURTH UNION ENDORSEMENT TO REPUBLICAN JON HUSTED
“They know they can count on me,” Husted said. “They can trust me, that I have worked with both business and labor to show them that we don’t have to fight over the pie like Sherrod Brown wants to do, that we can grow the pie, and everybody can get more work, higher wages, and see growth in their businesses when we all work together.”
Husted is pointing to his long reputation in the state to explain the labor endorsements. His career in Ohio politics extends back to the early 2000s, and he served six years as Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R-OH) lieutenant governor before his appointment to the Senate last January.
Husted also benefits from a rightward shift in Ohio’s voting electorate that has made statewide office increasingly difficult to obtain for Democrats. Brown, in fact, was …
Jon Husted makes big-tent pitch to Ohio union workers: ‘Don’t have to fight over the pie’
Who benefits from this decision?
Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) is rejecting the class warfare-fueled campaign of ex-Sen. Sherrod Brown as the two battle for blue-collar votes in Ohio’s marquee Senate race.
Husted, appointed last year to replace Vice President JD Vance in the Senate, has a simple message for the more than 600,000 union members who live and work in Ohio and could prove decisive to his race against Brown this fall: “Businesses have to succeed for labor to succeed.”
“The UAW can’t succeed unless GM succeeds and Ford succeeds,” he told the Washington Examiner in an interview. “The construction trades can’t succeed unless there’s new investment in manufacturing equipment. The operating engineers can’t succeed unless there’s an investment in infrastructure.”
Husted, who is campaigning heavily on President Donald Trump’s signature tax law, is making a pro-business pitch that the labor movement has traditionally viewed with skepticism, and one that Brown, who is attempting a political comeback after losing his Senate seat in 2024, has criticized as a handout to the rich.
But Husted is betting that Brown’s message, which casts the political moment as a struggle between corporations and their workers, will fall flat as rank-and-file union members show a growing willingness to back Republicans.
Almost half of Ohio’s union households voted for President Donald Trump in the last presidential election, according to 2024 exit polling, while labor leaders have begun to defect from Brown, too. Most recently, the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers announced its support for Husted, marking the fourth union to switch sides in the race to date.
SHERROD BROWN LOSES FOURTH UNION ENDORSEMENT TO REPUBLICAN JON HUSTED
“They know they can count on me,” Husted said. “They can trust me, that I have worked with both business and labor to show them that we don’t have to fight over the pie like Sherrod Brown wants to do, that we can grow the pie, and everybody can get more work, higher wages, and see growth in their businesses when we all work together.”
Husted is pointing to his long reputation in the state to explain the labor endorsements. His career in Ohio politics extends back to the early 2000s, and he served six years as Gov. Mike DeWine’s (R-OH) lieutenant governor before his appointment to the Senate last January.
Husted also benefits from a rightward shift in Ohio’s voting electorate that has made statewide office increasingly difficult to obtain for Democrats. Brown, in fact, was …
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