Despite losing his reelection bid, Sen. Sherrod Brown pledged to continue advocating for American workers.
Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown made clear during a farewell speech Tuesday that he does not plan to abandon his career-long fight for American workers despite suffering a bitter defeat last month in Ohio, where it’s become nearly impossible for his party to win statewide elections.
“This is my last speech on the floor this year, but it is not, I promise you, the last time you will hear from me,” the 72-year-old Brown said in his signature gravelly voice, after thanking staff and family members who watched in the Senate chamber. He at times fought back tears. It was a telling remark, given Brown’s high political profile in his native Ohio. The state’s political observers are already floating his name as a possible contender for the Senate seat being vacated by Republican JD Vance, theBrown said only that he would return to Ohio in January as “a private citizen” and that people who love the country “fight for the people who make it work every day.” The Democrat blasted the Washington establishment for bowing to Wall Street’s interest over workers, with painful results for places like his hometown of Mansfield, Ohio. He said he learned from his parents — a conservative and a liberal — “that the role of government was to help the little guy. The big guys can take care of themselves.” This fall, Brown delivered a similar message to voters without success, losing his reelection bid to Republican Bernie Moreno, a Cleveland businessman and newcomer to public office, by about 3.5 percentage points. Campaigns and outside groups spent nearly $300 million in what was one of Republicans’ top targets nationally as they successfully flipped the chambe
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