Ohio -- Election night marked the moment Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown earned his third term in the U.S. Senate.

But the Democratic senator said it also marked the moment supporters began reaching out about running for president.

“I heard so much from people all over the state and the country — my wife and I are pretty overwhelmed — that I should consider doing this,” Brown said in an interview with Spectrum News on Thursday. “I’m interested — I don’t know where this goes exactly.”

Ohio’s scruffy senator has been in politics since he left college.

His passion for celebrating what he calls the ‘dignity of work in America’ led to an election night line that raised some eyebrows about presidential ambitions.

“That is the message coming out of Ohio in 2018 and that is the blueprint for America for 2020,” Brown told supporters at his victory party, after beating Republican Jim Renacci.

On Thursday, Brown provided some context.

“I knew that it would be taken that way,” Brown said, referring to a presidential run potentially being implied. “I wrote it, in large part, because I want to, whether I run or not, I want the dignity of work and that ‘when you wake up every day and you love your country, you fight for the people that make it work' -- I want that narrative and those issues in this presidential campaign.”

Brown said this is a personal decision that he’s planning to make in the next couple of months with his family.

He said he’s not thinking about a campaign strategy yet, but he did talk about the need for a nominee who can talk to, and about, workers, especially to help Democrats in the industrial Midwest.

Kyle Kondik, the managing editor of the non-partisan Sabato’s Crystal Ball, agrees.

“Maybe having a candidate from the Midwest who is sort of a more economic-focused candidate, as opposed to a culturally liberal-focused kind of candidate, might be a good play for Democrats,” Kondik said. “That said, I do wonder if the Democratic Party will be looking essentially for a candidate who is not a white male. That seems to be where the party is headed.”

Brown was on the shortlist to be Hillary Clinton’s running mate in 2016.

And with his latest election night win in the books, he has job security if he were to run in 2020 and lose.

His message to Democrats, no matter what?

Start appealing more to working class people in the all-important swing states in the Midwest.

“We’re in the heartland of the country,” Brown said. “And the candidate that wins those states [in 2020] is likely going to win.”

Several dozen Democrats are currently being named as potential candidates for 2020.

Brown said he “wouldn’t look forward” to being in such a crowded field, but he said he’ll figure it out. ​