Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) holds a six-point lead over former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), according to a poll released days after Brown launched his campaign for Senate. Husted led Brown 50 percent to 44 percent, according to a new Emerson College poll released on Friday. The poll’s margin of error was plus or minus three percentage points.
“In the first public poll following Sherrod Brown’s 2026 campaign kick-off, the former Senator trails the incumbent Jon Husted by six points, though he has a higher name recognition than the first-term Senator,” said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling. Brown launched his campaign on Monday, less than a year after he lost his reelection bid to Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) in November. Despite being the last statewide electe