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A member of the Democratic Party , she was a Cleveland City Council member from to and a member of the Ohio Senate from until Turner was the Democratic nominee for Ohio Secretary of State in , but lost in the general election against incumbent Jon Husted , receiving A self-described democratic socialist , [ 1 ] her politics have been variously described as progressive , [ 2 ] left-wing , [ 3 ] or far-left.

Turner supported Bernie Sanders in his presidential campaign , and became president of the Sanders-affiliated group Our Revolution in She served as a national co-chair of Sanders's presidential campaign.

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Turner ran in the Democratic primary for special election for Ohio's 11th congressional district , and conceded the race after losing to Shontel Brown by a margin of 5. Turner is a native of Cleveland , Ohio. She was born Nina Hudson, to parents, Faye and Taalib, the first of seven children. Her mother worked as a preacher and as a nurse's aide in a senior home, struggled with high blood pressure all her life and died in at the age of Turner graduated from Cleveland's John F.

Kennedy High School in She began her professional career as an aide in to then- state Senator Rhine McLin. She later lobbied for the Cleveland Metropolitan School District at the state and federal levels. In November , Jones resigned his City Council seat. His wife, Tonya Jones, was the top vote-getter in a September nine-way, non-partisan primary race to select a candidate to fill Jones' seat.

Turner served on Cleveland City Council from to Turner was unanimously selected by the Ohio Senate Democratic caucus to serve the remainder of Mason's four-year Senate term.