"I spent much of yesterday wrestling with the right thing to do when President Trump visits Dayton today. I decided I have a responsibility to Ohioans to use this opportunity to look the president in the eye and urge him to do the right thing," Brown said in a statement.

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He added that he plans to use the face-to-face with Trump to urge him to stop using "racist hate speech" and to support Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act if the president is serious about combating mental health issues.