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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'I Am the Woman Trump Hates': Meet Sherrod Brown's Louder Half
Pulitzer-winning columnist and Trump foe Connie Schultz will redefine the role of campaign spouse if her husband runs in 2020.
By MICHAEL KRUSE December 21, 2018
CLEVELANDConnie Schultz stood at her stove this week and stirred a big pot of thick vegetarian chili. On the long brown table set and waiting for lunch was a copy of that days New York Times, folded and opened to a page with a column with a headline I couldnt help but notice, The Secret to Winning in 2020, and on the refrigerator and the walls around her were pictures of her four children and her seven grandchildren and of course her husband, toothe only statewide elected Democrat in Ohio, the potential presidential candidate, Senator Sherrod Brown.
Brown, 66, the curly-haired progressive populist who was preaching fair trade over free trade back when Donald Trump was reintroducing himself as a reality television business boss, last month won a third term in the Senate in part by winning back a sufficient slice of those who had voted for Trump two years before. His six-point victory in a state Trump carried by 8 prompted immediate 2020 chatter. Brown himself labeled it a blueprint for America. Hailing from this perennially critical swing spotand this region of the country that decided the last presidential election and almost certainly will decide the next one as wellhe has the unusual and proven ability, according to strategists from both parties, to appeal to black voters and urban liberals and workers in fading factory towns. For these reasons, Trump aides say, Brown is on a short list of possible foes the president fears.
Weve heard that, too, Schultz said, ladling chili into bowls.
And I would say, she added, goodbecause he should.
She readied shredded cheese and sour cream and offered cornbread from a cast-iron skillet.
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https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/12/21/connie-schultz-sherrod-brown-donald-trump-democratic-primary-2020-223416
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'I Am the Woman Trump Hates': Meet Sherrod Brown's Louder Half (Original Post)
DonViejo
Dec 2018
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FarPoint
(12,409 posts)1. Connie is a fabulous writer!
She is a leader for women and Democrats here in Ohio....She has always been a voice of reason.
Delphinus
(11,831 posts)2. Great article.
Thanks for sharing.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,635 posts)3. Fantastic article. I've always admired her, and now I know why.
I hope he runs.
I've met him and he's the real deal.