DEMS/ELECTION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Democrat Sherrod Brown just won reelection resoundingly in a Trump state running on Trump’s issues — taking a hard line on trade and helping blue-collar workers. Now the Ohio senator is talking increasingly like he’s prepared to take on the president himself. In an expansive interview that began in his Senate office, Brown sketched the outlines of a potential presidential campaign that connects with the working class, particularly Rust Belt voters who’ve fled the Democratic Party for Trump — but with a less divisive message…Brown won a third term earlier this month while the rest of his state drifted further right. He garnered nearly 100,000 more votes than the Republican who won the governorship, Mike DeWine. The performance — in the type of state that Democrats need to reclaim from Trump — has thrust the 66-year-old Brown into the 2020 conversation.”
–Elana Schor, “Sherrod Brown sets his sights on Trump in 2020,” Politico, November 23, 2018 7:57 am