Democrat Rep. Shontel Brown (OH), who won the special election last November, crushed her far-left-backed primary challenger, Nina Turner, according to the Associated Press at 10:22 p.m. EDT.
Brown appeared to protect her newly won seat Tuesday night from Turner after winning the special election for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District last November, when the two previously faced off. At the time the race was called, Brown received 63.4 percent of the vote compared to Turner’s mere 36.6 percent.
The special election was to initially fill the seat left by former Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), who stepped down to become President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
The district was heavily tilted toward Democrats, for whom this election was a battle between far-left candidates and the party’s traditional powerbrokers.
Brown has not been in…
