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Chris McGreal in Dayton, Ohio

Ohio’s Democratic senator fights to keep one of the party’s most threatened seats

A middle-aged white man with curly gray hair, the collar of a buttoned shirt with no tie poking from beneath a light-blue sweater, which he wears beneath a dark gray blazer, smiles with his head cocked to the left, his hands folded on a table before him.
Senator Sherrod Brown is the sole Democrat holding statewide office in Ohio. Photograph: John Locher/AP

The Democrats desperately need Sherrod Brown. Whether the Ohio senator is quite so keen on being identified with the party as he fights for re-election in a state that swung firmly to Donald Trump is another matter.

Brown’s seat is one of three tight races for the Democrats next year that are likely to decide control of the US Senate. The prevailing winds are not good. Republicans now control every statewide office in Ohio except for Brown’s place in the Senate. Trump took the state from the Democrats to win it twice by a margin of more than 8% each time.

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