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Sherrod Brown: “They called a new issue on the ballot to force a 60% versus…”

Featuring: Sherrod Brown, Democratic | Former U.S. Senate, Ohio

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Published | Video Starts at 06:17

They call it the heartbeat bill, essentially banned abortion. 700,000 Ohioans signed petitions. The Republican secretary of State tried to disqualify all kinds of signatures. They called a new issue on the ballot to force a 60% versus a 50% threshold. We won on that and it passed by 13 points. And you can bet next year the three Republicans who want my seat that are going to be running in the primary, every one of them is called for a national abortion ban. (06:17–08:22)

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Asserts that a ballot issue to change the threshold to 60% was defeated by 13 points.

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