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WATCH: GOP senator unloads on ‘creature of Washington’ challenger in critical Senate showdown
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MARYSVILLE, OH – The Ohio Senate race could very well decide the balance of power in the U.S. Senate in November and incumbent Republican Jon Husted is making the case that the reasons his Democratic opponent was voted out of office two years ago are still relevant today.
«He’s spent 32 years in Washington, and he’s got nothing to show for it, the voters over here in Ohio know it,» Husted told Fox News Digital at the annual Summer Farm Fest on Sunday when asked about his race against former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
«That’s why they sent him packing two years ago. He was defeated by Bernie Moreno by over 200,000 votes. This is all he’s done. He’s been in an elected office since 1974. He hasn’t done anything in the private sector. He’s just been a creature of Washington and I think the voters finally are tired of it. That’s why they sent him packing. I don’t think they’re gonna have any enthusiasm for rehiring him for a job that he failed at.»
After representing Ohio in the Senate for almost two decades after years of serving in the House of Representatives, Brown was defeated by Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024 in a blistering campaign that was one of the most expensive in U.S. history. Moreno consistently tied Brown to the unpopular positions of then-President Joe Biden, and Husted told Fox News Digital those concerns still exist, particularly on immigration.
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Fox News Digital spoke to Republican Sen. Jon Husted about his race against challenger Sherrod Brown in a closely watched Senate campaign. (Fox News Digital/Getty)
«We had basically an invasion of 11 million people,» Husted said. «He supported amnesty for them. He supported Social Security payments for illegals, healthcare for illegals, COVID checks for illegals. The sanctuary cities he supported led to crime, fentanyl, human trafficking in our state, and it’s been terrible, and the voters know this.»
«They know that he failed them. They know when he goes off to Washington with his comrades that he votes like a liberal, that he’s too liberal for Ohio, that he has a track record of voting with Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris and Joe Biden, and that’s out of step with where Ohio is.»
Over the last few weeks, Brown has blanketed the airwaves with ads criticizing Husted on data centers, a hot-button issue in Ohio, arguing that Husted’s support of data centers over the years has resulted in higher energy prices for consumers.
Husted, who was appointed to the Senate in January 2025 after the departure of now-Vice President JD Vance, pushed back on that assertion when asked about the ads.
«He had 32 years in Congress, he did nothing about it, and I, in my, just briefly over a year there, have legislation to require data centers to build their own power, to pay their own way, and to give the benefits of their presence to the citizens of those local communities, rather than the way that Sherrod Brown has done it, where he’s failed,» Husted explained.
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Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, during a campaign event at the Steubenville City Building in Steubenville, Ohio, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024. (Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Husted continued, «This is the problem with the guy, is that he does nothing, and then a problem comes out, and he says, blame that person… He didn’t do anything about it. He never does anything about it. He just waits for problems to happen. And then he says, well, it’s the other person’s fault. It’s time to hold him accountable.»
Husted made the case that the policies Brown supported in Congress led to the high energy rates the country is seeing now.
«He spent 32 years in Washington and didn’t do anything except raise our electricity prices because he and the radical climate change agenda shut 23 power plants in Ohio,» Husted said. «If we had those 23 power plants today, we wouldn’t have high energy prices.»
Husted continued, «Him voting for Obamacare, which has doubled the price of health care insurance in the state of Ohio and around the country. He needs to be held to account for his failed policies.»
While Ohio has historically been known as a bellwether swing state, President Donald Trump won the state convincingly in 2016, 2020 and 2024, shifting the Buckeye State to a reliably red stronghold. However, recent polling, including a Fox News poll in June, shows Husted trailing Brown as Republicans battle the historical headwinds of the party in power struggling in midterm elections.
Brown, recruited back into politics in part by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, is looking to flip one of the four seats Democrats need to regain control of the Senate, with Ohio among the party’s top pickup opportunities alongside Alaska, Maine and North Carolina.
Senator Jon Husted, a Republican from Ohio, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (Getty Images)
With less than 100 days to go until the midterms, Husted says that Brown’s record will be front and center.
«Just showing the contrast between 32 years of failure from Sherrod Brown and the fact that I’m an Ohio guy, I’ve fought for Ohioans, I’ve helped in state government to turn this state in the right direction,» Husted said. «We now have more jobs than we’ve ever had in our state’s history, the lowest unemployment rate, frankly, than we ever had in our states’ history. And we don’t need to send this guy back to Washington, Sherrod Brown, to continue the failed policies that have harmed the country and harmed our state. We need a guy like me who will fight for Ohio.»
Fox News Digital reached out to the Brown campaign for comment.
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Bad bosses on Capitol Hill could face reckoning under new anonymous staffer review platform
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Capitol Hill staffers typically rely on private conversations and faceless social media accounts to identify toxic offices — but a new platform is offering a verified place to anonymously rate and review members of Congress and the workplaces they run.
Capitol CNCT, a program designed to centralize resources for congressional staffers, launched on July 20 a new tool called «The Scoop,» where verified staffers can share anonymous, but verified, reviews of the offices where they’re employed.
Former staffer David Tennent told Fox News Digital he founded Capitol CNCT to modernize the experience for young people working in congressional offices in Washington, D.C. He said the idea of the new ranking system emerged due to growing frustration over the number of ‘bad bosses’ and ‘toxic offices’ in the halls of Congress.
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The west front of the U.S. Capitol Building is reflected in the reflecting pool at dusk on July 22, 2026, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake/Getty Images)
«I wanted to create something that gave a little bit more transparency to the process and help staffers find the best opportunities available,» he said in an interview detailing his inspiration for the new tool.
Just a week after launch, verified reviews are already beginning to paint an early picture of workplace culture across Capitol Hill.
While most offices still have only a handful of ratings, the highest-rated House offices among them so far are Reps. Nick LaLota, R-N.Y., Abe Hamadeh, R-Ariz., Brendan Boyle, D-Penn., Michael Rulli, R-Ohio, and Robert Garcia, D-Calif.
Among Senate offices, the top five were Sens. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., Todd Young, R-Ind., Thom Tillis, R-N.C., Eric Schmitt, R-Miss., and Kevin Cramer, R-N.D.
Across both chambers, the five lowest-rated offices were Rep. Don Davis, D-N.C., Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., Rep. Julia Brownley, D-Calif., Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.
The offices of Davis, Krishnamoorthi, Brownley, Van Hollen and Bennet did not respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment on their rankings.
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There is no centralized human resources department for members’ offices on the Hill — making it tricky for staffers to report toxic or abusive workplaces.
«The Scoop» aims to offer a reliable place where people can leave and review feedback from staff who have gone through a verification process, which ensures anyone leaving a review actually works in the office they are rating.
«We verify the office in which they’ve worked,» Tennent told Fox News Digital. «We sift through all reviews before they go live to our platform to make sure that staffer has actually worked in that office.»
House lawmakers sit in the chamber on Capitol Hill. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Reviews are only published if the user leaving feedback passes Capitol CNCT’s background screening to ensure they have at some point worked for the member of Congress they are commenting on. The process includes verifying House and Senate email addresses attached to the account are legitimate.
«My biggest fear was just creating like a political retribution platform, right?» Tennent explained. «Where you can just go on and destroy people without any evidence or verification that you’ve been a part of that process.»
Tennent revealed that Republican offices are almost twice as likely to be reviewed than Democrats’ offices so far.
The launch last month comes amid heightened scrutiny of workplace culture on Capitol Hill after multiple offices faced misconduct allegations this year.
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Many members of Congress have either resigned or been under fire this year for allegations of inappropriate behavior with members of their staff.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif., and Rep. Tony Gonzales, R-Texas, both resigned in April after staffers from their offices came forward with accusations of sexual misconduct — including rape accusations against Swalwell.
«We happened to be able to launch it right in this timeframe where this congressional ethics or lack of morality discussion is really hitting its high pitch,» Tennent said.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) speaks alongside Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI) during a news conference on the introduction of their Protection from Abusive Passengers Act at the U.S. Capitol Building on April 06, 2022 in Washington, DC. Swalwell and Reed’s legislation is designed to improve air safety, increase traveler protections, reduce in-flight violence and hold unruly passengers accountable if they assault flight attendants and airline crew members. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Tennent said that while the main purpose of the app is to give staffers, or those considering working on the Hill, verifiable reviews about what it is like working for certain members of Congress, he also hopes it will serve as constructive criticism for members and their offices «to create a better working Congress.»
«We do want to provide like constructive criticism in this process,» Tennent said
He continued, «Our hope is that if a chief of staff or a member sees that their office is very poorly rated, that over time they’re gonna go, ‘Oh, this is a wake-up call for me. Let me implement some strategies to boost office morale, to change how we communicate with each other . ’»
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“Spider-Man: Un nuevo día”: estos son todos los récords de taquilla que rompió la película en su histórico estreno
El estreno de Spider-Man: Un nuevo día registró la mayor recaudación en un fin de semana de apertura en la historia del cine en Estados Unidos, con un total de 360 millones de dólares en el mercado doméstico, según datos oficiales publicados el lunes 3 de agosto. El fenómeno afecta a la industria cinematográfica internacional y marca un nuevo hito para la franquicia, consolidando a Marvel Studios y Sony Pictures como actores centrales en el sector de entretenimiento global.
De acuerdo con reportes de CNBC y Variety, la película protagonizada por Tom Holland alcanzó 932 millones de dólares a nivel mundial en sus primeros días de exhibición, lo que representa la segunda mayor apertura global de todos los tiempos y supera los registros previos de la saga Spider-Man. El dato fue confirmado por la propia Sony Pictures Entertainment a través de sus canales institucionales, que detalló un desempeño récord en preventa de entradas y funciones de preestreno.
La llegada de esta nueva entrega se produce siete años después del récord impuesto por “Avengers: Endgame”, cuyo estreno doméstico alcanzó los 357 millones de dólares en 2019. Según el análisis de Fortune, el impacto de “Un nuevo día” se extiende a formatos de exhibición premium, como Dolby Cinema y 4DX, que también reportaron sus mejores cifras históricas durante este lanzamiento.
El estreno de Spider-Man: Un nuevo día superó varias marcas históricas en la industria cinematográfica, según informes publicados por CNBC, Variety y Deadline. Entre los récords alcanzados destacan:
- Mayor recaudación en el estreno doméstico: 360 millones de dólares, que superan los 357 millones logrados por “Avengers: Endgame” en 2019, de acuerdo con datos oficiales de Sony Pictures y cifras auditadas por firmas como EntTelligence.
- Mayor recaudación global en un fin de semana de apertura para Sony Pictures: 932 millones de dólares, confirmados por la compañía y replicados por medios financieros internacionales.
- Mayor venta anticipada de entradas en Estados Unidos: 150 millones de dólares en preventas, según cifras de EntTelligence y reportes de Deadline.
- Mayor recaudación en funciones previas del jueves: 72 millones de dólares, superando a “Avengers: Endgame” en este segmento.
- Mayor recaudación en viernes de estreno: 169,8 millones de dólares, récord absoluto para el primer día de exhibición.
- Mayor asistencia en el primer fin de semana tras la pandemia: 24 millones de espectadores en Estados Unidos y Canadá, según EntTelligence.
- Mejor fin de semana en la historia de Sony Pictures y de la franquicia Spider-Man, de acuerdo con reportes de Variety y CNBC.
La repercusión internacional de Spider-Man: Un nuevo día también se reflejó en múltiples mercados, estableciendo nuevas marcas según información de Deadline. La película logró los mayores estrenos históricos para una película de Hollywood en:
- Francia: 26,6 millones de dólares, superando a títulos locales y franquicias previas.
- India: 31,8 millones, el mayor debut de una producción de Hollywood.
- Brasil: 23,8 millones, posición de liderazgo frente a lanzamientos anteriores.
- España: 15,6 millones, resultado superior al de “Avengers: Endgame”.
- Perú: 8,6 millones.
- Colombia: 6,8 millones, superando a “Inside Out 2”.
- Emiratos Árabes Unidos: 6,8 millones.
- Arabia Saudita: 5,4 millones, por encima de “Spider-Man: No Way Home”.
- Chile: 5 millones.
- Turquía: 4,7 millones.
- Ecuador: 4,1 millones.
- Bélgica: 4 millones.
Deadline detalló que el filme lideró la taquilla en todos estos territorios, contribuyendo al récord global del estudio.
De acuerdo con cifras de EntTelligence recogidas por CNBC, aproximadamente 24,1 millones de personas asistieron a funciones de “Un nuevo día” en Estados Unidos y Canadá durante su primer fin de semana en cartelera. El 21% de las entradas corresponde a formatos premium, con un precio promedio de 18,55 dólares por boleto.
Las salas Dolby Cinema y CJ4DPlex, que opera los sistemas ScreenX y 4DX, también informaron sus mayores ingresos históricos en un solo fin de semana. Dolby Cinema reportó una recaudación de 10 millones de dólares, mientras que ScreenX y 4DX alcanzaron 7 y 5,2 millones respectivamente, de acuerdo con datos publicados por CNBC.
Este comportamiento de la audiencia refleja una preferencia creciente por las experiencias cinematográficas premium, tendencia que se consolidó tras la pandemia y que fue potenciada con el estreno de “Un nuevo día”.
Según Variety y Deadline, el estreno de “Un nuevo día” representa la mayor apertura doméstica para Tom Holland, Zendaya, el director Destin Daniel Cretton y la productora Amy Pascal. Además, se trata de la mayor apertura bajo la presidencia de Kevin Feige en Marvel Studios.
El récord incluye también la mayor apertura global para un filme dirigido por Cretton, superando a “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” (2021), y la mayor apertura en la carrera de Zendaya, quien ya había protagonizado “Spider-Man: No Way Home” junto a Holland.
Según el seguimiento de Fortune, “Un nuevo día” se convirtió en el cuarto título en superar la barrera de los mil millones de dólares en recaudación global en 2026, junto a “Toy Story 5”, “Michael” y “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie”. La película también marcó el mayor fin de semana colectivo de taquilla en Norteamérica, con 430 millones de dólares en ventas, dato atribuido a la firma Rentrak.
La compañía Rentrak y EntTelligence confirmaron que “Un nuevo día” es una de las dos únicas películas que han superado los 300 millones de dólares en su estreno doméstico, junto a “Avengers: Endgame”. Según Variety, estos resultados consolidan a la franquicia de Spider-Man entre las más rentables de la historia del cine contemporáneo.
En un comunicado difundido por Sony Pictures Entertainment, el CEO Ravi Ahuja calificó el desempeño de la película como un “logro histórico” para la compañía. Según declaraciones recogidas por Deadline, la dirección de Sony atribuyó los resultados a “decisiones creativas audaces” y al atractivo global del personaje de Spider-Man.
No se han registrado hasta el momento declaraciones institucionales de parte de Marvel Studios ni de The Walt Disney Company sobre el impacto de este estreno en el mercado internacional. CNBC y Variety resaltaron que la empresa distribuidora mantuvo una comunicación constante con los medios financieros para actualizar las cifras de recaudación a lo largo del fin de semana.
El impacto de esta apertura afecta tanto a los estudios involucrados como a las cadenas de exhibición y al público, que encuentra una oferta ampliada de funciones en formatos especiales y una mayor disponibilidad de entradas en diversos mercados. De acuerdo con proyecciones citadas por Variety y Deadline, se prevé que la recaudación de “Un nuevo día” continúe en ascenso en las próximas semanas, lo que podría consolidar su posición entre las películas más taquilleras de la historia.
Este resultado marca una recuperación sostenida para la industria del cine, mientras que la franquicia Spider-Man refuerza su relevancia comercial y cultural a nivel global. El comportamiento de la audiencia y la respuesta de las cadenas de cines sugieren que los grandes estrenos siguen siendo catalizadores para la reactivación del sector.
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