Nina Turner, the progressive activist with close ties to Sen. Sanders, is mounting another campaign for Congress in Ohio.
The former state senator from the Cleveland area told NBC News this week that she wants a rematch with Rep. Shontel Brown, who“The same environment that motivated me to run before motivates me to run again,” Turner, who co-chaired Sanders’ 2020 campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, said in a telephone interview. “The environment by which change needs to happen has not really percolated at this moment. I think that it's one thing for somebody to go and to vote the right way.
Turner added that she sees an opportunity to make her case to new voters this year. Turnout is likely to be higher in a midterm election year. And the 11th District boundaries are expected to include more of the city of Cleveland under a redistricting plan that is still being hashed out after the Ohio Supreme Court rejected a Republican-drawn map seen as too partisan.
“There was an anybody-but-Nina campaign ran in 2021,” Turner said this week. “Some of those forces may still decide to get into this race, but what they will not be able to do is totally concentrate [on the Ohio 11th District] because this will not be the only race.” “There is a need for people to both lift the president's agenda when they agree with that agenda but also in that same motion push for more,” Turner added. “I don't see those things as mutually exclusive — even though people want to make it mutually exclusive.”