Sherrod Brown becomes the latest Democrat to bow out of the 2020 presidential race by AndrewRomano
For a while it seemed like every Democratic politician in America was jumping into the 2020 presidential race.The latest no-go? Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio. On Thursday, the progressive populist announced that he will not be vying for the White House this cycle despite openly flirting with the possibility during a month-long listening tour of the first four primary states. “I will keep calling out Donald Trump and his phony populism,” Brown said in a statement.
Brown’s rationale for bowing out was not immediately clear. But he had always been a reluctant recruit. When asked in recent years about a possible White House bid, the senator had tended to dismiss the notion with lukewarm responses such as “I don’t like the idea of running for president” and “I don’t … have any real interest in that.”
Taking note of the senator’s singular success in an increasingly conservative state — as one of the Senate’s most liberal members, no less — pundits suddenly began to tout him as an underrated presidential prospect. That, in turn, inspired Brown and his wife, the Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Connie Schultz, to start considering, for what they say was the first time, whether those pundits might actually have a point.
Brown’s record would have helped him make that case. For 18 years, he refused to enroll in a congressional health plan, saying he would not accept federally subsidized care until the American public could avail itself of the same option. In Congress, Brown went on to lead the bipartisan opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement , crossing then president Bill Clinton; more than two decades later, he helped torpedo the Trans-Pacific Partnership, defying Barack Obama.
But as the country has pivoted toward populism — and as Democrats have struggled to respond, especially in the industrial Midwest — Brown came to be seen as a potential model.
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