Kamala Harris has shaken up the election after she entered the race.
But her campaign hasn’t been all good news for Democrats.
Now Kamala Harris made Chuck Schumer’s life a nightmare for one reason he never expected.
Kamala Harris threatens Democrat control of the Senate
Democrats are ecstatic that Vice President Kamala Harris parachuted in at the last moment to save them from President Joe Biden after his campaign imploded from the debate.
She represents the ascendant far-left wing of the party, much to the delight of the Democrat base.
But having a San Francisco Democrat at the top of the ticket is making life a living hell for vulnerable Democrats running for re-election in red states.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) needs everything to break his way to hold onto his slim 51-49 majority.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is running for re-election this year in a state that former President Donald Trump won twice by eight points.
Polling this year suggests that it’s within the realm of possibility that he wins Ohio by double digits this November.
Brown has been one of the most left-wing members of Congress dating back to his days in the House of Representatives.
He’s running away from Harris – his former Senate colleague – as fast as he can.
The political terrain in Ohio has shifted underneath during his time in Congress.
Ohio went from being the premier swing state to voting for Trump by a bigger margin than Texas in 2020.
Now, Brown is trying to reinvent himself as a moderate after being a rubber stamp for every major bill under former President Barack Obama and President Joe Biden.
Sherrod Brown and Kamala Harris are two peas in a pod
Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is hammering Brown for voting in favor of the Biden-Harris agenda almost 100% of the time.
Brown and Harris were allies in the Senate from 2017 to 2021.
They voted together in the Senate about 84% of the time, according to the nonpartisan voting tracking website GovTrack.
Brown and Harris co-sponsored nearly 500 bills during their time in the Senate.
The Ohio lawmaker said that he “loved” Harris during a roundtable discussion.
“And if I didn’t already love Kamala Harris, I did after that discussion, just that what we were talking about dignity of work and Dr. King always said all labor has dignity, no job is menial if it pays an adequate wage and that’s so much of what she’s fought for in her career and what has so mattered to her and so mattered to the people whom she serves,” Brown said in 2021.
The pair sponsored bills during the Trump administration to ban oil drilling on federal lands, a bill to handcuff local enforcement after George Floyd’s death in 2020, and against border security.
“Sherrod Brown and Kamala Harris conspired to pass the most liberal agenda in American history. Brown is in complete lockstep with Harris in her radical views and will help usher in the Green New Deal, Medicare for illegals, and tax hikes on the middle class,” Moreno communications director Reagan McCarthy stated.
Sherrod Brown’s love affair with Kamala Harris could be the nail in his political coffin this November.
