In the “toss-up” special election race for the U.S. Senate in Ohio, former Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown’s record is coming back to haunt him when it comes to transgender procedures for minors.
Before he was defeated by now Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024, Brown had served for three terms in the U.S. Senate. Although his campaign fought back against ads on the issue of transgender procedures for minors and athletes in 2024, he still lost, and history may be repeating itself as he seeks a comeback.
A recent ad from the Senate Leadership Fund features a 23-year-old detransitioner, Soren Aldaco, speaking about her experiences and how she was “groomed by strangers online at 11.”
Doctors told her family she was transgender at 15, and she had hormone injections and then surgery, which she said was “without [her] parents’ consent.”
Aldaco began the ad by declaring that “Sherrod Brown supports sex changes for minors, irreversible surgery on kids.” She later adds, “I was a kid. I was confused. Sherrod Brown isn’t. He knows the consequences. Ohio’s kids deserve better. So did I.”
The Daily Signal reached out to the Brown campaign for comment about the ad but did not hear back in time for publication.
The ad is backed by close to $10 million, with Senate Leadership Fund investing $79 million in Ohio.
“Children should never have to endure the trauma that far-Left politicians like Sherrod Brown have inflicted. Ohioans are sick and tired of Democrats caving to the demands of extremists and will once again reject Brown this November,” Senate Leadership Fund Communications Director Chris Gustafson said in a statement.
The group created a website, sherrodbrownoh.com, to highlight “Brown’s 50-year record of caving to extremists and the far-left,” highlighting his role as a career politician and how he voted with then-President Joe Biden 97% of the time. Referenced issues include higher taxes, open borders, and sex changes for kids.
A press release for the ad on Monday spoke to Brown’s previous time in office and how Senate Leadership Fund is looking to retire him for good, noting that the latest ad is part of a campaign to “permanently retire 50-year career politician Sherrod Brown.”
This ad comes not long after another one by the group highlighting Brown’s record and falling in line with other liberals on this same issue. The ad also features former Vice President Kamala Harris as well as Reps. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
In addition to pointing out how “permanent” the surgeries are, with “devastating consequences,” the ad claims that “the extremists demand it, Sherrod Brown complies,” and that while he’s had “50 years in politics,” he’s “more extreme than ever.”
The group similarly targeted Brown in 2024 for his record on the issue. Brown, along with former Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., who lost to now-Republican Sen. Tim Sheehy in that same cycle, was also referenced in an editorial from The Wall Street Journal in October 2024.
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