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Nina Hudson Turner (born December 7, 1967) is an American politician from Ohio. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a Cleveland City Councillor from 2006 to 2008 and an Ohio State Senator from 2008 until 2014. She was the Democratic candidate for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014 but lost in the general election, garnering 35.5 percent of the vote. She was later a surrogate for Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign. In 2016, she was also offered the role of vice presidential running mate by Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein but declined. In 2017, Turner became president of the Sanders-affiliated group Our Revolution. On February 21, 2019, Turner was named a national co-chair of Sanders's 2020 campaign.
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Born
1967-12-07
Birth Place
United_States
Education
Cuyahoga_Community_College
Political Ideology
Democratic_Party_(United_States)
Spouse(s)
Jeffery Turner
Children
1
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Nina Turner hits $3 million raised for Ohio special

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Poll shows Nina Turner leads Democratic party in race for Ohio’s 11th Congressional District with support from 50% of likely voters

CLEVELAND — Editor's note: Video in the player at the top of this story was originally published on March 15, 2021. Nina Turner is leading the Democratic contenders who are vying to fill former Rep. Marcia Fudge’s seat in Congress, according to a new poll. Turner’s campaign highlighted results of the poll Tuesday morning, which was conducted by Tulchin Research. You can explore the poll in the document at the bottom of this story.
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Poll Shows Nina Turner with Commanding Lead in OH-11 Congressional Race

Fully 50% of likely Democratic voters in Ohio's District 11 Congressional election support Nina Turner, a new poll has found. The poll clarifies Turner's frontrunner status two months before the Aug. 3 special election for the seat formerly occupied by Marcia Fudge. Shontel Brown, the Chair of the Cuyahoga County...
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Nina Turner on Bernie Sanders, Running for Congress, and Progressive Power

October 2019 feels like a lifetime ago. Covid-19 didn’t exist yet. Donald Trump was president. George Floyd was alive. And on a sunny, brisk fall day in Queens, New York, in a baseball field under a bridge across the street from the country’s biggest public housing project (Queensbridge, which birthed rap legends like Nas and Mobb Deep), a balding U.S. senator from Vermont held a rally.
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Nina Turner on Health Equity, Poverty, and Medicare for All

On the new episode of Prognosis Ohio, part of the WCBE Podcast Experience, Dan Skinner talks with former Ohio Senator Nina Turner about her run for U.S. Congress in the special election in the 11th Congressional district. The special election is being held to fill the seat vacated by Rep. Marcia Fudge, who was appointed by President Biden to serve as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Sen. Turner talks with Dan about the importance of fighting for bold policy change in health care, especially Medicare for All, but also policy the can promote equity in poverty, housing, and environmental health.
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Nina Turner endorsed for Congress by 4 of greater Cleveland's 5 Black Ohio state legislators, and all 4 of them are Black women....By editor Kathy Wray Coleman of Clevelandurbannews.com and Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com

And Kathywraycolemanonlinenewsblog.com, Ohio's most read Black and alternative digital newspaper. CLEVELAND, Ohio - Congressional candidate Nina Turner (pictured), a former Cleveland councilwoman and prior Ohio senator who later served as co-chair of Bernie Sanders' 2020 campaign for president and is a front runner in the 11th congressional district race in Ohio to replace former congresswoman Marcia L. Fudge, announced Friday that she has added the names of the three Black women state representatives out of greater Cleveland to her long list of endorsements, namely state Reps Juanita Brent of Cleveland (D-12), Stephanie Howse of Cleveland (D-11,) and Janine Boyd of Cleveland Heights (D-9).
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Register Now for Our Town Hall with Nina Turner!

Nina Turner is one of the great progressive champions of our time. We must do all we can to help her secure a win in her run for Congress in OH-11, regardless of where we live. Nina’s passionate stands for the people will make her a tremendous addition to The...