Print this article Despite Ohio crucially sending Barack Obama to the White House twice, it voted for his presidential successor Donald Trump with a margin of over 8 points in both his successful 2016 election and his 2020 failure. Sherrod Brown earned Democrats its first Senate seat in nearly a decade with his 2006 victory, but his lead shrunk from 12 points to the single digits in subsequent reelections. Ohio can reasonably expect that Rob Portman, the outgoing senator who won his reelection by more than 20 points, will be replaced by a fellow Republican. Given President Joe Biden's razor-thin control of both the Senate and the House, the entire nation has a vested interest in who wins in the 2022 primary for Portman's seat.