Catching Our Eye News Roundup, Oct. 13, 2026

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Catching Our Eye

• Brown on possibility of impeachment. The Columbus Dispatch’s Cole Behrens reports, “Sherrod Brown says he would not support Trump impeachment if elected.”

U.S. Senate candidate Sherrod Brown says he would not support impeaching President Donald Trump if Brown is elected in November.

Republicans have said Democrats will try to impeach Trump if they retake Congress in the midterms. In an Oct. 9 interview, Brown told The Dispatch he would not be in favor of impeaching the president.

“I can’t speak for everybody else, but I would not support an impeachment of Trump. There’s just simply no reason for that, no matter what happens in the midterms,” Brown told The Dispatch.

• AG race. The Toledo Blade’s Danny Eldredge reports, “State auditor, longtime litigator face off in race for Ohio attorney general.”

Ohio’s next attorney general will be someone with decades of relevant experience regardless of which candidate voters choose in November.

Republican Keith Faber is serving the final year of his second term as state auditor. He previously served 18 years as a state legislator in both chambers of the Ohio General Assembly — including four years as Ohio Senate president. He is also a senior partner at Celina, Ohio-based law firm Faber & Associates. He earned his law degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law.

Democrat John Kulewicz, an Upper Arlington city councilman, worked as an attorney for Columbus-based law firm Vorys, Sater, Seymour, and Pease for 44 years where he argued cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and courts across Ohio. He earned his law degree from Yale Law School, where he served as an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

The candidates discussed their views on a range of issues during separate interviews.

• Free and fair elections. WVXU’s Lilley Halloran reports, “‘Ohio does it right’: Local boards of elections say the midterms will be free and fair.”

NPR reporting suggests that, while more voters trust their state and local officials to run a free election, there is still a fair amount of distrust this midterm season.

But Nicole Unzicker, director of the Butler County Board of Elections, is confident voters can trust the process… Unzicker said all of Ohio’s boards of elections must adhere to strict guidelines.

“It doesn’t waver between elections,” Unzicker said. “If 10 people turned out for an election, or 50,000, it’s the same work that we’re doing for every election.”

Key to the integrity of an election is bipartisanship, Unzicker and other election officials said.

In every county, the elections director and deputy director are members of opposite parties. And there must be an equal number of Democratic and Republican poll workers.

• Prediction markets. The Dayton Daily News’ Jamie Dupree reports, “Ohio presses for U.S. Supreme Court hearing on ‘prediction markets’.”

A bipartisan coalition of 39 states led by Ohio’s attorney general has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to step into a growing legal dispute involving sports gambling on prediction markets, and whether states — or a federal agency — should be allowed to regulate those bets.

“Prediction markets say that classic sports bets — things like whether Joe Burrow throws three touchdowns or Ohio State beats Michigan — are not bets at all,” Ohio Attorney General Andy Wilson argued in a written brief submitted to the Supreme Court.