Each card sums up what the candidate said across every video we indexed. Each sentence links to the clip it comes from.
Health care
Sherrod BrownD
Brown proposes banning insurers from denying care doctors say is needed, fining denials, and barring drug companies from charging Americans more than other countries.
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Brown says Husted voted nine times against lowering health insurance premiums and took $700,000 from insurers.
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Brown says 160,000 Ohioans have dropped insurance and that Medicaid and rural hospital cuts will make it worse next year.
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“Tell them we're going to ban health insurance companies from denying care that your doctors say you need, and if that doesn't work, we'll fine them when they deny care.”
Husted supports extending ACA premium tax credits with a cap and fraud controls, paid to individuals, not insurers, and says Democrats blocked his bill.
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Husted backs the Access Act, which would require the VA to provide referrals to community care outside the VA system.
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Husted argues the FDA's posture discourages rare-disease therapies, and proposes price transparency and PBM reform.
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“Extend them, eliminate the fraud, cap them so that we're not subsidizing the health care premiums of millionaires and then let the money go to the individuals and not to the insurance companies.”
Husted says the Working Families Tax Cut Act gave Ohio families over $5,000 in tax benefits instead of a $3,500 tax increase.
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Husted cites three ways to address affordability: more jobs, letting people keep more of what they earn, and lower energy costs.
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Husted says refinery outages and the Strait of Hormuz disruption raised gas prices, and cites his bill to move some drugs over the counter.
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“Instead of letting it uh expire and get a $3500 tax increase, which was coming to every working family in this state, they they got over a $5,000 tax benefit.”
Brown proposes barring members of Congress and their spouses from trading stocks, and barring former members from becoming lobbyists.
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Brown says he ran again because a rigged system favors corporate executives and billionaires, and Ohioans want a senator who works for Ohio.
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Brown says he listens to rural Republicans on issues like tariffs, and that Husted's side has spent $30 million on negative ads.
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“No one, no one who serves in Congress, no spouse should be able to trade stocks, period.”
“I think there's a way to get the Save America Act done through the reconciliation process in which we can at least get some parts of it done including citizenship verification and photo ID.”
Husted proposes the First Time Home Buyer Empowerment Act, letting families use up to about $35,000 of 529 savings for a home down payment.
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Husted proposes taxing institutional owners at commercial rates in Ohio, and argues Brown's 32 years in office created the housing problem.
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“up to I think we said thirty-five thousand dollars to pay, use for down payment on a house”
“union members that voted that voted for guys like Trump don't um they they didn't vote for this war. They were promised no wars. They didn't vote for higher costs like this.”
Husted says his focus is more jobs for working families, and cites record job numbers and the lowest unemployment in Ohio history.
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Husted proposes the Upward Mobility Act to phase out benefits gradually as pay rises, and a constitutional amendment to balance the federal budget.
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“I've been focused on working families and trying to create more jobs. Make make life more affordable for them.”
“I started out life in foster care. Um my birth mother was encouraged not to not to have that baby, which was me, and um and got adopted and led a great life.”
No answer on record about this in the 8 videos we indexed.
Record and trust
Sherrod BrownD
Brown argues Husted's votes for the Iran war and against capping insurance premiums show he is no voice for Ohio.
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Brown says Husted was at the center of Ohio's largest bribery scandal and took more than $116,000 from an Epstein co-conspirator.
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Brown criticizes Husted for saying Ohio's work ethic is broken, and says Husted's money comes from data center, crypto, tech, oil and drug companies.
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“They didn't vote for a war. They didn't vote for higher gas and diesel prices.”