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Sherrod Brown

Democratic · United States Senator for Ohio · born 1952 in Mansfield, Ohio

Ballotpedia · FEC · Official site

11 of 11 sections researched

66 sources · 2024, 2026 · updated 2026-09-19

What has been checked
  • Profile 7 entries
  • On the ballot 1 entry
  • Where they stand 4 entries Four paraphrases of his platform, each with the link that states it; the page marks a paraphrase as a paraphrase. None of his platform is quoted in the research archive, so no position in his own words is published yet.
  • What they have said, checked 1 entry One claim of his own is published, from 2024. Four more claims in the archive were made about him by others; three of those are published under the organization or candidate that made them and name him. His one 2026 claim carries no date for the claim or for the check, so its permanent address could not be formed. Checked: The research archive's fact-check pass of 2026-09-18 (PolitiFact, FactCheck.org, the Washington Post Fact Checker and AP Fact Check); The research archive's 2024 fact-check pass (PolitiFact)
  • Record in office 6 entries
  • Money 11 entries
  • Financial interests 9 entries
  • Polling and approval 11 entries Head-to-head numbers and favorability from named pollsters, for both the 2024 and the 2026 race. Polling averages and forecast models are not polls and are not published.
  • Elections 2 entries His 2024 and 2026 candidacies are published. His earlier elections wait on the cycles those races cover.
  • Endorsements given 1 entry One endorsement he received is published. Seven more unions are named in the research archive with no link, so they are not published; the archive records no endorsement he gave.
  • Sources 55 entries 29 sources on this record.

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On the ballot

Where they stand

Data centers and electricity costs

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:

Ohio's data-center tax incentives raised household electricity costs, and he holds the lieutenant governor who backed them responsible.

August 27, 2026 · Campaign message, reported by WVXU and CNBC

Sources: wvxu.org · cnbc.com

Prescription drug prices

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:

Lower prescription drug prices and oppose losses of health coverage.

2026 · Senate office biography

Source: brown.senate.gov

Trade and tariffs

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:

Trade enforcement to protect domestic steel: co-sponsorship of Section 232 tariffs and the Stop Mexico's Steel Surge Act, and a standing test that a trade deal must demonstrably benefit workers.

2026 · Senate office press release, and reporting by Crain's Cleveland Business

Sources: brown.senate.gov · crainscleveland.com · brown.senate.gov

Work and wages

Paraphrase of a linked source, not their words:

A "Dignity of Work" campaign centered on defending Ohio workers, labor unions and manufacturing jobs.

August 18, 2025 · Campaign launch, reported by the Statehouse News Bureau

Sources: brown.senate.gov · statenews.org

What they have said, checked

Said about Sherrod Brown

Record in office

  1. 2019 · bill

    Co-sponsored the End Mass Deportation Act in 2019.

    Source: politifact.com

  2. 2019 · appointment

    Chaired the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs during his final Senate term.

    Sources: banking.senate.gov · brown.senate.gov

  3. 2015 · bill

    Authored the bipartisan Leveling the Playing Field Act, signed into law in 2015, which strengthened U.S. trade-enforcement law.

    United Steelworkers, in its December 15, 2025 endorsement: From fighting to restore the pensions our retirees earned to demanding trade policies that safeguard American manufacturing jobs, he has consistently delivered. · the source

    Sources: brown.senate.gov · britannica.com · usw.org

  4. 2010 · bill

    Led passage of the provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act that created the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. His Senate office states the bureau has returned about $21 billion to more than 205 million Americans since 2011.

    Sources: banking.senate.gov · brown.senate.gov

  5. 2008 · action

    Pushed for federal loans and bridge support for domestic automakers during the 2008 and 2009 auto industry crisis.

    Sources: brown.senate.gov · brown.senate.gov

  6. 2001 · vote

    Voted at least 10 times between 2001 and 2024, in the U.S. House and the Senate, against measures restricting federal funding to cities that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

    Sources: politifact.com · politifact.com

Money

Totals as filed

RaceFilerRaisedSpentCash on handAs of
U.S. Senator from Ohio FEC C00916288 $38,566,234$22,336,493$16,229,741June 30, 2026
U.S. Senator from Ohio FEC C00264697 $96,530,241$99,564,642$394,230December 31, 2024

From inside Ohio: $9,861,954 (40%), as of June 30, 2026. Itemized Schedule A contributions to committee C00916288 for the 2026 cycle with a filed Ohio address, as a percent of all itemized contributions to that committee for the cycle, via the FEC's schedule_a/by_state/ aggregate endpoint.

Source: api.open.fec.gov

Sources: api.open.fec.gov · ohiocapitaljournal.com · washingtonsun.com · fec.gov · fec.gov

From inside Ohio: $20,032,416 (31%), as of December 31, 2024. Itemized Schedule A contributions to committee C00264697 for the 2024 cycle with a filed Ohio address, as a percent of all itemized contributions to that committee for the cycle, via the FEC's schedule_a/by_state/ aggregate endpoint.

Source: api.open.fec.gov

Sources: api.open.fec.gov · fec.gov · fec.gov · opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

Top donors, as filed

  • ActBlue small-dollar donors · $3,800,000 · campaign committee · U.S. Senator from Ohio

    small-dollar donors through ActBlue, at an average donation of about $122

    Sources: opensecrets.org · ohiocapitaljournal.com

  • Donors at a September 14, 2026 San Francisco-area fundraiser · $870,000 · PAC · Out of state · U.S. Senator from Ohio

    more than 40 donors giving at the maximum personal limit through the Ohio Grassroots Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee, including members of the Pritzker, Gates, Soros and Rockefeller families

    Sources: ohio.news · dailysignal.com

  • Corporate political action committees · $300,000 · PAC · U.S. Senator from Ohio

    corporate political action committees including Visa Inc., New York Life, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Boeing and Bank of New York Mellon

    Sources: foxnews.com · spectrumnews1.com

  • Organized labor · $43,500 · PAC · U.S. Senator from Ohio

    United Steelworkers, which endorsed him, and building-trades unions including the Bricklayers

    Source: opensecrets.org

  • Ohio State University employees · $26,000 · campaign committee · In state · U.S. Senator from Ohio

    employees of Ohio State University; the top donor group to the Senate Victory for Sherrod Brown 2024 joint fundraising committee, whose largest industry category was retired donors at $138,660

    Sources: opensecrets.org · opensecrets.org

  • Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer · $24,000 · campaign committee · Out of state · U.S. Senator from Ohio

    law firm; the top donor to the Victory Now for Sherrod Brown joint fundraising committee

    Source: opensecrets.org

Outside spending

  • U.S. Senator from Ohio · opposing $40,000,000 · as of November 5, 2024

    • Defend American Jobs · $40,000,000 · oppose

    Sources: coindesk.com · theintercept.com · bloomberg.com · cnbc.com

  • U.S. Senator from Ohio · supporting $24,335,248 · opposing $118,638,039 · as of September 19, 2026

    • Slf Pac · $64,100,138 · oppose
    • American Crossroads · $31,103,341 · oppose
    • Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action · $8,993,525 · oppose
    • Buckeye Values Pac · $8,731,372 · oppose
    • Winsenate · $7,061,803 · support
    • National Association Of Realtors Congressional Fund · $2,394,002 · support

    Sources: api.open.fec.gov · fec.gov

  • U.S. Senator from Ohio · supporting $24,303,523 · opposing $115,071,915 · as of September 19, 2026

    • Senate Leadership Fund · $63,683,899 · oppose
    • American Crossroads · $31,103,341 · oppose
    • Buckeye Values Pac · $8,731,372 · oppose
    • Americans For Prosperity Action, Inc. (Afp Action) Dba Cva Action And Dba Libre Action · $7,517,864 · oppose
    • Winsenate · $7,061,803 · support
    • National Association Of Realtors Congressional Fund · $2,394,002 · support

    Sources: api.open.fec.gov · fec.gov

Financial interests

Disclosed holdings

  • Discloses no individual company stock. His wife holds two diversified funds: an Invesco Select Risk: Growth Investor Fund in a 401(k), $250,001 to $500,000, and a TIAA/Nuveen Lifecycle Index fund in a Denison University retirement plan, $15,001 to $50,000.

    August 13, 2026

    Source: efdsearch.senate.gov

  • His remaining disclosed assets are bank deposit accounts at Huntington National Bank, Congressional Federal Credit Union and Northwest Bank, and two defined-benefit pensions: the Ohio Public Employees Retirement System for him and the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio for his wife.

    August 13, 2026

    Source: efdsearch.senate.gov

Disclosed income

  • Disclosed writing and teaching income from his career after the Senate.

    December 2025

    Source: signalohio.org

Reported conflicts

  • Reported that his Senate financial disclosures omitted his wife's mutual-fund holdings of about $250,001 to $500,000 and a pension of about $100,001 to $250,000 from 2007 until he corrected the filings in an August 2023 letter to the Senate Office of Public Records.

    August 2023 · Reported by Washington Free Beacon

    Source: freebeacon.com

  • Reported that he accepted PAC contributions of about $13,000 from Cigna, Humana and Express Scripts between 2009 and 2018 and more than $37,000 from their lobbyists between 2006 and 2021, and that Ohio's attorney general sued those companies in 2023 over alleged drug-price manipulation.

    May 17, 2023 · Reported by Spectrum News 1

    Source: spectrumnews1.com

  • Reported that his campaign messaging against concentrated wealth sits alongside a September 14, 2026 San Francisco-area fundraiser that drew more than 40 donors giving at the legal maximum through a joint fundraising committee.

    September 14, 2026 · Reported by Ohio News and The Daily Signal

    Sources: ohio.news · dailysignal.com

  • Reported that Dignity of Work PAC, the 1992-vintage committee formerly named Friends of Sherrod Brown and converted to PAC status in March 2025, spent nearly $500,000 on consultants, hotels and catering in the first half of 2025 and carried a late federal tax bill of about $50,000 that was paid by July 2025. It is not his current campaign committee.

    2025 · Reported by Fox News

    Sources: foxnews.com · fec.gov

Net worth, as estimated

  • $497,008 to $1,180,000, 2026

    Estimated by Cracked Buckeye research archive, summing the value ranges in his Senate financial disclosure.

    Sources: efdsearch.senate.gov · signalohio.org

  • $-2,992 to $979,998, 2025

    Estimated by Cracked Buckeye research archive, summing the value ranges in his Senate financial disclosure.

    Source: efdsearch.senate.gov

Polling and approval

Elections

RacePartyResultVotesShare
U.S. Senator from Ohio (2026) DemocraticPending
U.S. Senator from Ohio (2024) DemocraticLost 2,650,949 46.5%

Offices held

Endorsements

Endorsements received

  • United Steelworkers · union · December 15, 2025

    Source: usw.org

In the endorsement sets

Sources

Every URL on this page, once each.

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  3. United States Senate special election in Ohio, 2026 · Ballotpedia · accessed 2026-09-18
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  8. Sherrod Brown Demands Financial Transparency. For Years, He Failed to Disclose Hundreds of Thousands of Dollars in Assets. · Washington Free Beacon · accessed 2026-09-18
  9. Campaign finance reports show Ohio U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown far out-raising Republican candidates · Ohio Capital Journal · 2024-02-07 · accessed 2026-09-18
  10. Republican Bernie Moreno defeats incumbent Sherrod Brown for Ohio U.S. Senate seat, AP projects · Ohio Capital Journal (AP) · 2024-11-05 · accessed 2026-09-18
  11. Poll shows the Ohio US Senate race is statistically tied, and that health insurance is a big concern · Ohio Capital Journal · 2026-03-18 · accessed 2026-09-18
  12. Sherrod Brown wins Ohio Democratic U.S. Senate primary, set to face Jon Husted in November · Ohio Capital Journal · 2026-05-05 · accessed 2026-09-18
  13. Brown outraises Husted as outside groups enter Ohio's U.S. Senate race · Ohio Capital Journal · 2026-07-29 · accessed 2026-09-18
  14. Jon Husted's inaccurate claim that Sherrod Brown voted for benefits for immigrants in US illegally · PolitiFact · 2026-08-25 · accessed 2026-09-18
  15. There's no evidence Sherrod Brown's immigration votes caused a fatal Ohio crash · PolitiFact · 2026-09-01 · accessed 2026-09-18
  16. Ohio U.S. Senate race results: Sherrod Brown v. Bernie Moreno · Signal Cleveland · accessed 2026-09-18
  17. Sherrod Brown discloses writing, teaching income after Senate · Signal Ohio · accessed 2026-09-18
  18. Brown, Moreno both accepted corporate PAC donations · Spectrum News 1 · 2024-05-24 · accessed 2026-09-18
  19. Sen. Brown accepted donations from PACs tied to drug companies named in Ohio lawsuit · Spectrum News 1 · 2023-05-17 · accessed 2026-09-18
  20. Fox News poll finds Sherrod Brown leading Ohio Senate race by 8 points; Trump rating drops · The Hill · accessed 2026-09-18
  21. Why Crypto Billionaires Want to Flip Sherrod Brown's Senate Seat · The Intercept · 2024-10-13 · accessed 2026-09-18
  22. USW Proudly Endorses Sherrod Brown to Return to Senate · United Steelworkers · 2025-12-15 · accessed 2026-09-18
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  24. Moreno Extends Lead in Ohio · ActiVote · accessed 2026-09-18
  25. Brown: The CFPB Stands Up for Consumers · U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs · accessed 2026-09-18
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  30. Brown, Cleveland-Cliffs, USW Call for Action to Stop Mexican Steel Surge · U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio (official site) · accessed 2026-09-18
  31. Bitcoiners celebrate as $40 million campaign brings down Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown · CNBC · 2024-11-05 · accessed 2026-09-18
  32. As GOP warns data centers put Ohio Senate seat at risk, Husted defends energy policy · CNBC · 2026-08-21 · accessed 2026-09-18
  33. Crypto PACs Dominate Ohio Senate Race, Spending $40M on Sherrod Brown's Foe · CoinDesk · 2024-09-26 · accessed 2026-09-18
  34. Cleveland-Cliffs welcoming Sherrod Brown to support tariffs on Mexican steel · Crain's Cleveland Business · accessed 2026-09-18
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  40. Ex-Dem senator's PAC splurges on luxury perks while skirting hefty tax bill ahead of potential comeback bid · Fox News · accessed 2026-09-18
  41. Sherrod Brown leads Husted by 8 as inflation tops Ohio Senate poll · Fox News · 2026-08 · accessed 2026-09-18
  42. Vulnerable Dem. Sen ripped after raking in cash from corporate PACs despite previous objections: 'Hypocrisy' · Fox News · accessed 2026-09-18
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  71. Bernie Moreno misleads on Sherrod Brown votes for aid for migrants with non-legal status · PolitiFact · 2024-09-04 · accessed 2026-09-18

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