WATER BOY JON: MAGA-World Rips Into Jon Husted’s Failing Senate Campaign
October 19, 2026
COLUMBUS, OHIO — New reporting today in Politico Playbook detailed the dire situation of Jon Husted’s failing Senate campaign.
Multiple Republican strategists blasted Husted’s campaign, with one strategist with ties to MAGA world calling it the “worst campaign in the country.” Another Republican strategist even said that while Husted may “look like a quarterback… he acts like a waterboy.”
Ohio Democratic Party Senior Communications Advisor Tony Wen released the following statement:
“From FirstEnergy’s ‘golden boy’ to MAGA’s ‘waterboy,’ Jon Husted has spent years carrying water for special interests like FirstEnergy, massive data centers, and Epstein co-conspirators. It’s no surprise MAGA-world is now blasting Husted’s failing Senate campaign and describing it as one of the worst in the country.”
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- Republicans are racing to shore up their red wall as it starts to crumble.
- Much of the GOP’s consternation centers on Husted, who Republicans close to the White House privately pilloried for months as a lackluster candidate.
- While Trump praised his physical attributes at rallies, aligned strategists are less certain about the former college football player’s political athleticism.
- “Jon Husted looks like a quarterback, he talks like a quarterback, but he acts like a waterboy,” said a national GOP strategist who worked with the candidate.
- Added the first MAGA-aligned strategist: “When the story is written on this campaign cycle, Sherrod Brown will have run the best race in the country. Jon Husted may have run the worst campaign in the country.”
- Husted acknowledged his campaign, which didn’t respond to a request for comment, has been an uphill battle.
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