Brown Pivots on Transgender Criticism, Frames GOP Focus as Economic Distraction

In the contested terrain of Ohio's Senate race, Sherrod Brown has chosen not to defend his ground but to redraw the map entirely — releasing an advertisement that reframes Republican attacks on transgender issues as a deliberate distraction from the economic anxieties that quietly govern most voters' lives. It is an old maneuver in democratic politics: when the battlefield is unfavorable, dispute the battlefield itself. Whether Ohio's persuadable voters accept this reframing, or demand that Brown stand and answer, may tell us something enduring about how cultural conflict and economic hardship