Taking on the Democratic establishment is always going to be an uphill battle for a left-wing challenger, and that’s doubly so when they take on an incumbent. The Left was served a hard reminder of this last night when Nina Turner lost again to Representative Shontel Brown in Ohio’s 11th congressional district.

Brown handily consolidated her hold on the Cleveland-based seat in the second contest between the two in less than a year, beating Turner by more than thirty points, more than four times her winning margin last August. It was a disappointing result for Turner, a Cleveland native who had served on the city’s council and represented it in the Ohio state senate, and who had banked on higher turnout and as many as 30 percent new voters brought in by the district’s remapping.

Instead, turnout dipped by about three thousand votes on the rainy day, and Turner fared poorly in Cleveland. In almost every precinct in the city, Brown’s votes held steady or even increased, while Turner’s dramatically fell, even in precincts she’d won last August. The city of Lakewood, newly incorporated into the district, was thought to give Turner an advantage this time around — it was one of the few areas in Cuyahoga County that Bernie Sanders had won in 2016 — but Turner lost in nineteen of the city’s thirty-seven precincts yesterday.