Ohio GOP Senate challenger reacts to polls showing dead heat in critical Senate race: ‘radical liberal’

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno spoke to Fox News Digital on the campaign trail about why he believes recent polls are showing him essentially deadlocked within a margin of error with Sen. incumbent Sherrod Brown after months of following him.

“It’s time for a change,” he told Fox News Digital outside the Board of Elections in Franklin County, where Ohio Republicans cheered voters to cast their ballots early as part of former President Trump’s “Swamp the Vote” platform.

“Give the Republicans a chance to govern and we’ll make your lives better. Look, Sherrod Brown has seen 200,000 manufacturing jobs leave this state in his 30 years in DC. And I’m going to end it. And I hope it’s the leader. History in all your reports. The USA Sherrod Brown made two promises, think about it, he made two promises to the American people, to the people of Ohio manufacturing”.

Moreno continued, “200,000 manufacturing jobs have been lost, and he said anyone who’s been in Washington, DC, for more than ten years is a thief. Take him at his word.”

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“We started advertising, that’s number one,” Moreno said of why he thinks the polls have tightened in the Ohio senate race.

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“Sherrod Brown spent a fortune over the summer claiming he would cure cancer. The other half said: I cause cancer. Of course Neither is true. We started advertising. We didn’t take personal photos because we won’t. Our campaign is simple. Look at his voting record.”

Moreno pointed at Brown voting with Biden almost 100% of the time and said he “stabbed Trump in the back” several times when he voted for the amendments.

A Washington Post poll released this week from Oct. 3-7 found Brown leading Moreno 48-47 well within the margin of error of 3.5 points after Brown has led by a larger margin in most surveys so far.

“He’s someone completely different in Washington, D.C.,” Moreno said of Brown, who has been running ads promising to work with presidents of either party and touting his record on illegal immigration in a state Trump won by 8 points in 2020 .

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“I have senators like Sen. Hagerty,” Moreno said as he stood next to Sen. Bill Hagerty in front of Moreno’s campaign bus. “Who has been with me since the beginning of this campaign during the primary, who looks and he goes, “who’s that? guy on TV? He looks a lot like Sherrod Brown, but he can’t be Sherrod Brown because the guy I know in Washington, DC, is a radical liberal. The guy on TV is something completely different. But that’s what we see. We’re tied at the polls now. Look, we’re going to win.“

Many pundits believe the Ohio Senate race will play a critical role in determining which party controls the Senate next year, and the Cook Political Report classifies the race as a “rematch.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the Brown campaign for comment, but did not hear back.

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