Sen. Minority Leader Chuck Schumer just got some really, really bad news… $8 million of it, to be exact.
A powerful conservative group is committing millions of dollars to a seemingly unassuming midterm election that could have massive repercussions.
And Schumer is suddenly freaking out about it.
The Sentinel Action Fund (SAF) announced it is pulling together millions in donations to help re-elect Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted, who replaced Vice President JD Vance’s vacant Senate seat last January.
Husted is currently locked in a tight race with former three-term Democratic Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, and the battle could determine control of the upper chamber after the upcoming midterms.
Which means the race suddenly has Schumer’s undivided attention.
According to a press release published today, the GOP-aligned super PAC and its affiliated group, Right Vote, are together spending more than $8 million in the race to “support activities to engage and mobilize voters early” in an effort to galvanize the critical Ohio race.
Despite President Donald Trump winning Ohio by over 11 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election, the battleground state’s special Senate election is in a dead heat, with multiple recent polls showing the difference between Husted and Brown within the margin of error.
If Democrats fail to win the race, their path to retaking the Senate becomes significantly tougher.
“There could not be a more stark contrast than radical Democrat Sherrod Brown,” SAF President Jessica Anderson said in a statement obtained by political outlet The Daily Caller.
“Ohio voters rejected Sherrod Brown in 2024 because he turned his back on Ohio and put his loyalty to [Senate Minority Leader] Chuck Schumer and the Democrat Party’s extreme-left policies on open borders, government fraud and handouts to illegals, and submission to the trans agenda.”
Republican Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Husted to the Senate seat vacated by Vance in January 2025.
Meanwhile, Brown had held Ohio’s other Senate seat for 18 consecutive years before narrowly losing his bid for a third term to Republican Ohio Sen. Bernie Moreno in 2024.
Before that, he had served in the U.S. House, as Ohio’s Secretary of State, and in the Ohio State House, having won his first election in 1974.
“Sherrod Brown represents everything that is wrong with Democrat politicians – rubbing shoulders with Hollywood elites, and fighting for New York and San Francisco values. Sherrod Brown has also opposed reasonable policies like voter ID and border security, and he has tried to stand in President Trump’s way to deliver working class tax cuts and move jobs back to America,” Anderson’s statement continued.
“And he has stood in the way of pro-innovation policies when it comes to digital assets.”
SAF’s track record also spells good news for Husted.
SAF endorsed each of the three Republicans who defeated Democratic incumbents during the 2024 election cycle: Moreno, Montana Sen. Tim Sheehy and Pennsylvania Sen. Dave McCormick.
“Sentinel Action Fund’s ground game operations mobilized Ohioans to vote Brown out of office in 2024, and we are thrilled to endorse Republican Jon Husted, who will send Sherrod Brown packing for good this November,” Anderson noted.
The group describes itself on its website as “the only Super PAC on the Right with a year-round ground game committed to turning out absentee, early vote, and ‘day of’ voters.”
“In his first year in the Senate, Republican Senator Jon Husted has already proven he is a conservative fighter who stands up for Ohio values and President [Donald] Trump’s agenda,” Anderson continued, pointing to the senator’s support of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s tax breaks and election integrity legislation.