Sherrod Brown Bets on Union Voters
Sherrod Brown spent 32 years in Congress before losing his Senate seat in 2024, when many working-class voters turned out for Trump, according to NPR. He is now counting on union voters to send him back to Washington — a narrower electorate than the one that turned him out, and a test of whether organized labor still delivers a slice of the working-class vote that the wider coalition no longer does.
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Going back through unions is not pure nostalgia. The bet is that union membership still structures enough of the working-class vote for a candidate to build on, even after the 2024 result.
Thirty-two years in office followed by a loss suggests the erosion runs past any single constituency. The voters who showed up for Trump may simply not be reachable through labor at all, no matter how well the union halls are worked.