Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio, the incumbent. Every point on this page links to its source. We don't grade candidates or tell you how to vote. As of 2026-09-28.
In Congress: 56 bills and resolutions sponsored, 170 cosponsored, 0 became law on their own (a bill folded into a larger law isn't counted). Congress.gov
Confirmation votes
Every Supreme Court confirmation while in the Senate, and Cabinet confirmations in the last two Congresses. Senate records, newest first.
Cabinet
Voted Yea on Todd Blanche, Attorney General (2026-08-08, Confirmed 50–49, roll call)
Voted Yea on Walter Clayton, Director of National Intelligence (2026-07-28, Confirmed 51–47, roll call)
Voted Yea on Markwayne Mullin, Secretary of Homeland Security (2026-03-23, Confirmed 54–45, roll call)
Voted Yea on Michael G. Waltz, Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations (2025-09-19, Confirmed 47–43, roll call)
Voted Yea on Troy Meink, Secretary of the Air Force (2025-05-13, Confirmed 74–25, roll call)
Voted Yea on John Phelan, Secretary of the Navy (2025-03-24, Confirmed 62–30, roll call)
Voted Yea on Lori Chavez-DeRemer, Secretary of Labor (2025-03-10, Confirmed 67–32, roll call)
Voted Yea on Linda McMahon, Secretary of Education (2025-03-03, Confirmed 51–45, roll call)
Voted Yea on Daniel Driscoll, Secretary of the Army (2025-02-25, Confirmed 66–28, roll call)
Voted Yea on Kelly Loeffler, Administrator of the Small Business Administration (2025-02-19, Confirmed 52–46, roll call)
Voted Yea on Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce (2025-02-18, Confirmed 51–45, roll call)
Voted Yea on Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture (2025-02-13, Confirmed 72–28, roll call)
Voted Yea on Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Secretary of Health and Human Services (2025-02-13, Confirmed 52–48, roll call)
Voted Yea on Tulsi Gabbard, Director of National Intelligence (2025-02-12, Confirmed 52–48, roll call)
Voted Yea on Russell Vought, Director of the Office of Management and Budget (2025-02-06, Confirmed 53–47, roll call)
Voted Yea on Eric Turner, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (2025-02-05, Confirmed 55–44, roll call)
Voted Yea on Pamela Bondi, Attorney General (2025-02-04, Confirmed 54–46, roll call)
Voted Yea on Douglas Collins, Secretary of Veterans Affairs (2025-02-04, Confirmed 77–23, roll call)
Voted Yea on Christopher Wright, Secretary of Energy (2025-02-03, Confirmed 59–38, roll call)
Voted Yea on Douglas Burgum, Secretary of the Interior (2025-01-30, Confirmed 80–17, roll call)
Voted Yea on Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (2025-01-29, Confirmed 56–42, roll call)
Voted Yea on Sean Duffy, Secretary of Transportation (2025-01-28, Confirmed 77–22, roll call)
Voted Yea on Scott Bessent, Secretary of the Treasury (2025-01-27, Confirmed 68–29, roll call)
Voted Yea on Kristi Noem, Secretary of Homeland Security (2025-01-25, Confirmed 59–34, roll call)
Voted Yea on Peter Hegseth, Secretary of Defense (2025-01-24, Confirmed 50–50, roll call)
Voted Yea on John Ratcliffe, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (2025-01-23, Confirmed 74–25, roll call)
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Where they stand
In their own words, from their campaign and official websites, summarised in plain English. Under each issue, their Senate votes: Final passage votes in the Senate in the last two Congresses (2023 to now), matched to each issue by Congress.gov's own topic for the bill (and its subject tags, unless it is a catch-all bill with dozens), closest votes first: a lopsided vote says little about where anyone stands.
Economy and cost of living
Husted says he wants to lower costs for Ohio families, including working to pass a bill to reduce electricity prices, and points to his record of cutting taxes and reducing business costs to spur economic growth.
“Republicans (led by @JonHusted) had a bill to lower electricity prices.”
Husted says he supports cutting taxes and reducing government spending, citing his role in passing what he calls the largest income tax cut in Ohio's history and eliminating three business taxes, as well as cutting regulatory costs and waste in government.
“the largest income tax cut in Ohio’s history and the elimination of three business taxes”
Husted says he is working in the Senate to secure the border, has supported legislation to withhold federal highway funds from states that give driver's licenses to people who are unlawfully present, and has pushed for measures to stop fentanyl from entering Ohio communities.
Husted says he wants to lower electricity prices through legislation he led that passed the House, and he has supported disapproving a California vehicle emissions rule as well as backing a bill to speed up industrial pollution permitting.
“Republicans (led by @JonHusted) had a bill to lower electricity prices.”
Husted voted against a resolution that would have directed the President to remove U.S. armed forces from hostilities with Iran, and he has been involved in national defense and export control legislation, including a bill to extend the statute of limitations for export control violations.
“On the Concurrent Resolution H. Con. Res. 89; A concurrent resolution directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.”
Husted says he supports requiring photo identification for voters and has defended efforts to maintain accurate voter rolls, pointing to his Supreme Court win in Husted v. Philip Randolph Institute as setting a national standard for election integrity.
“the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in his favor, setting a national standard for maintaining the integrity of voter rolls”
From FEC filings for 2025–26. Outside spending is money a group spends on its own about a candidate — TV and online ads, mail, canvassing. It is not a donation to the campaign, and the candidate does not control it. Supporting means it was spent to help that candidate win; Opposing means it was spent to defeat them, usually on attack ads. Groups report it within 24 or 48 hours as the election nears. Raised is the campaign's own fundraising, as of its latest quarterly report. Largest donors come from each outside spender's own FEC receipts, with each donor's share of its itemized receipts; donors under $100,000 are not named. People are shown with the employer and occupation they reported. A donor that is itself a political committee is shown with its own largest donors. Companies and nonprofits don't report their funders to the FEC, so the trail ends there, and the page says so.
Jon Husted (REP, incumbent)
Raised
$14.4M through 2026-06-30individuals $6.3M · PACs $2.3M · party $62K · from the candidate's other committees $5.7M · cash on hand $9.4M
WINSENATE— $19.9M opposing Husted
· 7 ads on this pageLargest donors:
SMP $4.1M (100%) (its largest donors: MAJORITY FORWARD $61.0M, an organization; Fred Eychaner $9.0M; DEMOCRACY PAC $9.0M)AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY ACTION, INC. (AFP ACTION) DBA CVA ACTION AND DBA LIBRE ACTION— $6.9M supporting Husted
· 6 ads on this pageLargest donors:
KOCH INC $30.0M (33%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); STAND TOGETHER INC. $20.0M (22%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Jim C Walton $7.0M (8%), Self-Employed, Philanthropist; S Robson Walton $7.0M (8%), Retired, Retired; STAND TOGETHER CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC $6.5M (7%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC)DEFEND AMERICAN JOBS— $5.7M supporting HustedNRDC ACTION VOTES— $3.0M opposing Husted
· 3 ads on this pageLargest donors:
NRDC ACTION FUND $3.1M (100%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC)EDF ACTION VOTES— $2.5M opposing HustedLargest donors:
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE ACTION FUND $8.7M (73%) (an organization: its own funders aren't reported to the FEC); Susan Z Mandel $2.5M (21%), NOT Employed, NOT Employed; John Sall $100K (1%), SAS Institute INC, Executive Statistician; Virginia Sall $100K (1%), Homemaker; Barbara Hostetter $100K (1%), Barr Foundation, Chairand 17 more
What named supporters and critics say, as reported. Shown in equal numbers.
Praise
Timothy Simmons, president of the Boilermakers: Says the union proudly endorses Husted for continuing to serve Ohio's manufacturing, rail, and energy sectors. washingtonexaminer.com
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Steak 'n Shake: Endorsed Husted citing his support for the Make America Healthy Again movement, while criticizing Brown on inflation. dispatch.com
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Criticism
Sherrod Brown: Mocks Husted for being out of touch on gas prices, implying he doesn't drive his own car. washingtonexaminer.com
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Patrick Eisenhauer, Brown campaign manager: Says Husted helps corporations and billionaires even when it hurts Ohioans, citing his poverty remarks and Iran war support. nbcnews.com
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Controversies
Stated as reported. Most are reported by at least two independent news outlets or found in an official record; any with only one source so far is marked Single source.
Court cases
Judge finds Husted liable for enforcing unconstitutional petition-circulator law Single source
Only one source found so far. We keep looking for a second, independent report.
A federal judge ruled that as Ohio Secretary of State, Husted was liable for enforcing a state law requiring petition circulators to be Ohio residents, which had already been declared unconstitutional, and denied him qualified immunity.
Response: Husted's office questioned Monday's ruling denying him qualified immunity, saying his role in the executive branch is to carry out a law, not interpret it.
Voter roll purge lawsuit (Husted v. A. Philip Randolph Institute)
Civil rights groups sued Husted alleging Ohio's process of purging inactive voters from registration rolls violated federal voting law; a district court initially sided with Husted, an appeals court reversed, and the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately upheld Ohio's process 5-4.
Only one source found so far. We keep looking for a second, independent report.
Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign and young voters sued Husted alleging his directive that 17-year-olds' presidential primary votes not be counted discriminated against young voters, many of whom were Black or Latino; a Franklin County court later ordered that such votes be counted, and Husted did not appeal.
Response: Husted has said that 17 year olds cannot vote in the presidential primary because they are technically electing delegates that pledge to candidates, and these underage voters cannot directly elect any official.
Only one source found so far. We keep looking for a second, independent report.
Then-state Sen. Husted's residency was challenged, with Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner ruling he was not a resident of Kettering and thus ineligible to vote there; Husted called it a partisan decision, and the Ohio Supreme Court unanimously overturned Brunner's ruling.
ACLU early voting lawsuit settlement Single source
Only one source found so far. We keep looking for a second, independent report.
Husted, as Secretary of State, settled a federal lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Ohio over restrictions on early voting hours; the settlement preserved his authority to set uniform statewide hours while restoring some evening and Sunday voting hours.
Sherrod Brown's campaign alleged that Husted took over $116,000 from Jeffrey Epstein associate Les Wexner, more than any other sitting senator, and initially voted against a procedural effort to release Epstein-related files before later voting for the Epstein Files Transparency Act. Husted's campaign says the procedural vote was not the vote that mattered and that he donated remaining Wexner funds to an anti-trafficking charity.
Heartland Bank board position while lieutenant governor Single source
Only one source found so far. We keep looking for a second, independent report.
As lieutenant governor, Husted took a paid seat on the board of Heartland Bank, a bank regulated by the state, drawing criticism and prompting a group of Republican state lawmakers to introduce an ethics-reform bill barring such arrangements; his ethics disclosure showed he was paid $21,600 for the role.
FirstEnergy/House Bill 6 bribery scandal testimony
Husted testified as a defense witness in the criminal bribery trial of former FirstEnergy executives Chuck Jones and Michael Dowling, related to the $60 million House Bill 6 nuclear bailout scandal. AP reported that calendars and texts disclosed in the case showed Husted had numerous calls and meetings with figures central to the scheme, and that FirstEnergy-linked dark money and a secret $1 million donation benefited his campaigns, though he has never been charged with wrongdoing.
Response: “I don’t know what you’re talking about. We weren’t involved,” Husted said when asked about the texts during an unrelated news conference in 2024. “Texts to other people — texts to other people shared amongst themselves — have nothing to do with me. And I wasn’t involved in that conversation.”
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