CLEVELANDURBANNEWS.COM-CLEVELAND,Ohio-U.S. Sen Sherrod Brown, a Cleveland Democrat and 2020 presidential hopeful, will bring his Dignity of Work Tour to Brunswick, Ohio on Jan 30, a program beginning at 6:30 pm at Supply Side USA, 1120 West 130th Street.

"Over the next few weeks, we'll be traveling to Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina, and Nevada," said

Brown on the Facebook event page for the gathering, which is free and open-to-the-public.

Some 1,300 people have shown interest on Facebook alone relative to the event, the klck-off tour in fact.

A ranking member of the U.S Senate who was soundly reelected last year, Brown announced his Dignity of Work Tour in key battleground states two weeks ago, ahead of his decision on whether he will make a presidential run.

Brown, 66, is a former U.S. representative and former Ohio secretary of state

The seasoned federal lawmaker has said that he must first consult with his family and that if he runs for president he is sure to beat current President Donald Trump, in Ohio, and in Trump's state of New York.

Trump, 72, is a Republican whose rise to the White House as a then real estate mogul and former television personality is unprecedented. And he has a sound base among Republican voters.

Whether that will get him reelected during a time when the country is in turmoil on immigration policies, foreign agendas, and other public policy matters, and in spite of ongoing partisan turmoil that has heightened since the Democrats reclaimed control of the U.S. House of Representatives in November, remains to be seen.

Brown also called the president, whose approval ratings have sunk to a new low following the partial shutdown of the federal government that re-opened last week with stipulations, "a racist."

He joins a crowded field of potential candidates for the Democratic nomination for president in 2020, including Hillary Clinton, former vice president Joe Biden, and U.S. Senators Elizabeth Warren, Corey Booker, and Kamala Harris, who is Black like Booker and a former California attorney general.

Ohio is a pivotal state for presidential elections with no Democrat ever winning the White House without first winning Ohio and no Republican of remembrance doing it either.