Sens. Cruz, Cotton, Portman, and Rubio Endorse Senate Hopeful Josh Mandel (R-OH)
May 31, 2017
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The 2018 midterms are going to be followed like nothing we've seen before, drawing more mainstream media coverage than did even the 2010 midterms. Although they have lost two special elections (Kansas and Montana) and failed to avoid a runoff in Georgia, Democrats and their media allies really really want the 2018 midterms to be a referendum on President Trump.
While we focus often on the fact that Democrats are divided between the Bernie Sanders-Elizabeth Warren wing and the slightly less radical Cory Booker wing, Republicans, too, are divided. The 2018 Ohio Senate race for incumbent Sherrod Brown (D)'s seat provides a snapshot of this friction.
Conservative, conservative-leaning, and Trump-supporting Republicans are already endorsing Ohio State Treasurer Josh Mandel in what they hope will be a successful rematch between Brown and Mandel. Mandel lost to Brown in 2012 and last year announced he was running again in 2018.