Nina Turner

Nina Turner (née Hudson; born December 7, 1967) is an American politician and television personality. A member of the Democratic Party, she was a Cleveland City Council member from 2006 to 2008 and served in the Ohio Senate from 2008 to 2014. Turner is a self-described democratic socialist whose politics have been variously described as progressive, left-wing, or far-left. Turner was the Democratic nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in 2014, losing to incumbent Jon Husted. She supported Bernie Sanders in his 2016 presidential campaign, and became president of the Sanders-affiliated political action organization Our Revolution in 2017. She served as a national co-chair of Sanders's 2020 presidential campaign. Turner twice ran in the Democratic primary for Ohio's 11th congressional district, losing the 2021 special election to Shontel Brown by a margin of 5.66%, and was again unsuccessful in 2022.