Senator Jon Husted, a Republican from Ohio, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (Getty Images)
Husted enters the 2026 cycle with the support of former President Donald Trump, who recently called him a "trusted conservative" who "has always delivered for Ohio."
The Ohio senator's campaign says the senator’s early filing, combined with his statewide staffing rollout, is intended to send a clear message: he is running aggressively, early, and everywhere.
"My focus is on delivering for Ohio’s working families," Husted said. "That won’t change in this campaign, and it won’t change in my next term."
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Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine speaks at a news conference on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)
Husted’s team, meanwhile, is preparing to cast Brown as a Washington insider out of step with Ohio’s economic and cultural concerns, similar to the narrative that Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno used to successfully unseat Brown last year.
"Ohio needs conservative champion Jon Husted in the U.S. Senate," the narrator says in Husted's first campaign ad released earlier this week.
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