FILE - Senate Banking Committee Chairman Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, speaks with reporters at the Capitol in Washington, March 15, 2023. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
FILE - Cleveland businessman and Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno speaks at a rally, March 16, 2024, in Vandalia, Ohio. (AP Photo/Jeff Dean, File)
FILE - Former Ohio Gov. Bob Taft speaks during an interview on the campus of the University of Dayton on Dec. 21, 2011, in Dayton, Ohio. Taft urged state lawmakers on Monday, April 24, 2023, against advancing a measure that would make it harder to amend the state constitution or reviving August special elections to do it — calling the combination "especially bad public policy." (Tony Jones/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP, File)