Campaign mailers urging Ohio voters to support a socialist U.S. Senate candidate over Democratic nominee Sherrod Brown are being underwritten by a newly incorporated PAC with ties to Donald Trump’s MAGA Inc., public filings show.
The mailers are sponsored by Enough Promises Ohio PAC and began arriving in voters’ mailboxes in recent days. They promote independent candidate Greg Levy over Brown with messages such as “Join the Revolution” and “Send a Worker to the Senate.” Levy describes himself as “Socialist running for the U.S. Senate to represent Ohio in 2026” on his X account.
Levy condemned the fliers for falsely impersonating his campaign and engaging in “dirty tricks” designed to mislead voters. He said he is considering legal action.
Why is he a joke? Genuine question, I’m not from Ohio.
Ohioan here who got the Join the Revolution mailer.
Not certain on TimBuck2theMoon’s meaning on "joke’, but Ohio does first past the post voting, which enforces a 2 party system. As long as we have first past the post voting, any 3rd party candidate is a joke candidate.
Levy doesn’t really have a chance, but can pull votes away from Brown (Dem candidate).
Personally, I’d rather vote for a socialist, but that’s only slightly better than not voting and the Republicans being in power is too great a threat to ignore.
The time to vote socialist is during the primaries to try to replace moderates with actual left leaning candidates. Outside of primary season, we can critize and pressure the Dems to actually do something productive, but wasting votes in battleground states just enables the fascists to win and they won’t be pressured from the left.