The state’s most prominent Democrat U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown is not attending the DNC amid reelection campaign
Ohio Democrats are headed to Chicago to back Vice President Kamala Harris. But they go without their most prominent politician.
Sen. Sherrod Brown is skipping the Democratic National Convention amid a tight reelection fight against Republican Bernie Moreno. The political calculus from Ohio’s top Democrat appears to be that attending Harris’ convention won’t help him win the Buckeye State, which has twice backed former President Donald Trump.
One recent AARP poll showed Brown leading Moreno even as Harris trailed former President Donald Trump in Ohio.
However, the remaining 143 Ohio delegates will celebrate the selection of the first Asian American and Black woman as a presidential nominee. (Harris was officially nominated via a virtual vote earlier this month.)
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How were Ohio Democratic delegates selected?
Ohio Democrats’ process for selecting delegates is more involved than Republicans’, who sent 79 delegates and 68 alternates to their convention in Milwaukee last month.
Eighty-three delegates were selected in district-level elections. In January, Democrats in each of Ohio’s 15 congressional districts held elections where candidates could give speeches about why they should represent their area in Chicago.
Then, Ohio Democratic Party’s state executive committee picked another 44 delegates to serve as at-large or party leader and elected official (PLEO) delegates. Together, these 127 people are Ohio’s pledged delegates.
The party also has 17 automatic delegates often called superdelegates. They include Brown, Ohio’s five Democratic members of Congress − Reps. Joyce Beatty, D-Columbus; Shontel Brown, D-Cleveland; Marcy Kaptur, D-Toledo; Greg Landsman, D-Cincinnati; and Emilia Sykes, D-Akron, and union leaders, such as Ohio AFL-CIO’s Tim Burga, Ohio Association of Public School Employees’ Joe Rugola and Ohio Federation of Teachers’ Melissa Cropper.
Who are Ohio’s delegates to the DNC?
About two-thirds of Ohio’s Democratic delegates are heading to their first political convention. The youngest delegate is 18-year-old Christian Pearson, of Marion, and the oldest is former Ohio Gov. Ted Strickland at 83 years old.
Rugola and Ron Malone, a longtime Democratic consultant and union leader, have attended the most conventions with 10 each.
Other delegates include:
City leaders like Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb, Columbus Mayor Andy Ginther, Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval, Toledo Mayor Wade Kapszukiewicz and former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley, who was the Democratic candidate for governor in 2022.Several current and former state lawmakers, such as Senate Minority Leader Nickie Antonio, of Lakewood; House Minority Leader Allison Russo, of Upper Arlington; and former House Speaker Armond Budish, of Beachwood.
See the full list of delegates below:
Jessie Balmert is a reporter for the USA TODAY Network Ohio Bureau, which serves the Columbus Dispatch, Cincinnati Enquirer, Akron Beacon Journal and 18 other affiliated news organizations across Ohio.
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