A ridiculous new memo by the NRSC starts off by saying incumbent Ohio Republican Senator Jon Husted and Dem former Senator Sherrod Brown “are in a dead heat. Private polling has been consistent: when voters hear Brown’s positions and his record, Husted pulls away.”

Lol. Note the “private” added in there because Brown leads public polls. “That is still the path in this race. The new ingredient (and the new problem) is data centers. Ohio is one of the leaders in building these AI factories. Brown has made his opposition to them the centerpiece of his campaign against Husted. Brown is using it because it works. More than any other thing in this race, data centers are the anchor hanging around Husted’s neck. If he loses and data centers get the blame, politicians across the country will take notice – and they will not go near the next one.”

“THE DATA CENTER BRAND IS THE ANCHOR: Data centers are the centerpiece in the case Sherrod Brown is litigating; he has made them his de facto opponent, and no one is correcting the record. Brown has put three unique television ads on the air and spent millions doing it, to the tune of more than 6,000 points on television. This is more than a month’s worth of messaging during one of the most critical times in the race. Our polling indicates that this messaging is significantly more effective than traditional messaging tracts, as it introduces new information on a highly relevant, emerging topic. This has become a sleeper issuefor the entire election cycle. WHAT HAS TO HAPPEN: Campaigns or party committees can not fix the toxic brand of an entire segment of the economy,” the memo to tech company PR team urging them to do something, anything continued.