Dem Senator Facing Tough Re-Election Campaign Accepted Donations From Dead Person

Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) is under scrutiny after a dead person was reported to have donated to his campaign, according to Ohio election officials.

The New York Post reported on Friday that Brown’s campaign reported two donations from May 2024 totaling $350 from Carol Ann Baker of Toledo, Ohio, who died in December 2023. The donations were flagged to the office of Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose who passed it onto the Federal Election Commission for further investigation.

“Our office received a complaint identifying that the Friends of Sherrod Brown committee reported receiving two contributions from an individual that was confirmed to be deceased,” LaRose spokesman Dan Lushek said. “But, as that committee is a federal entity and not a filer with our office, we referred the complaint and our findings to the Federal Elections Commission for further action.”

In a letter to the FEC, head of investigations at the Ohio Secretary of State’s office Huan Yi included an affidavit from Baker’s husband confirming her death. Before her death, Baker was an English teacher at Rossford High School and a trustee for Harris Township.

Yi added that Ohio’s Election Integrity Unit would be available to help as needed.

“Ohioans deserve absolute confidence in their elections,” he said. “The purpose of this letter is to refer to your office potential violations of federal law for your investigation, as appropriate.”

According to the complaint filed with Ohio election officials, the man who flagged the donations said he had reached out to the FEC in August, but did not hear anything back from them.

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Brown is currently defending his seat from Republican challenger Bernie Moreno, whose campaign criticized him over the donations.

“Brown’s scheme to fund his campaign with contributions from dead people isn’t just creepy, it’s illegal,” Moreno Press Secretary Reagan McCarthy said. “This conspiracy deserves more scrutiny. How far does it go?”

While Ohio went comfortably for former President Donald Trump in both 2016 and 2020, Brown currently maintains a 3.6 point average advantage in the polls heading into November. The Ohio seat could prove to be one of the pivotal races that determines control of the Senate as Democrats have just a two seat advantage.

Trump Vows To Cut Corporate Tax Rate For Companies That Make Products In U.S.

Former President Donald Trump on Thursday promised that if he wins the election, his administration would cut the corporate tax rate for “companies that make their product in America.”

Trump said during a speech at the Economic Club of New York that companies that manufacture their products in the U.S. would see a corporate tax decrease from 21% to 15%. He also vowed that there would be “big” tariffs on products made in foreign countries coming into the U.S.

“To further support the revival of American manufacturing, my plan calls for expanded R&D [research and development] tax credits, 100% bonus depreciation, expensing for new manufacturing investments, and a reduction in the corporate tax rate from 21% to 15% solely for companies that make their product in America,” Trump said to the applause of the crowd. “You have to make your product in America.”

“If you outsource, offshore, or replace American workers, you’re not eligible for any of these benefits. In fact, you will pay a very substantial tariff. … There will be a big tariff on that product because we want to make our goods in America,” he added.

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The Republican presidential nominee contrasted his corporate tax rate cut plan with Vice President Kamala Harris’ proposed corporate tax rate increase to 28%. A Harris spokesman told NBC News that the vice president’s corporate tax rate proposal is “a fiscally responsible way to put money back in the pockets of working people and ensure billionaires and big corporations pay their fair share.”

Trump argued that Harris “fundamentally rejects freedom and embraces Marxism, communism, and fascism.”

“She is promising communist price controls, wealth confiscation, energy annihilation, reparations. The largest tax increase ever imposed, and mass amnesty and citizenship for tens of millions of migrants who will consume trillions of dollars in federal benefits and destroy Social Security and Medicare,” he said, according to Fox News.

“We’re not going to watch our wealth and jobs get ripped away from us and sent to foreign countries, which is what’s been happening,” Trump added in his speech. “What we’re putting forward is the most pro-American manufacturing and jobs policy in modern history for any country.”