The 2024 election is all about the economy and for voters in the rust belt that statement is doubly true. MAGA endorsed candidates across the nation are out in force touting the failure of Bidenomics citing high inflation and interest rates coupled with stagnant salaries.
In states like Ohio, this could spell trouble for Democratic incumbents. As PBS put it, “three-term Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, a staple of Ohio politics who’s among the year’s most vulnerable Democrats.”
The septuagenarian senator will be hard pressed to win votes from his younger opponent, Trump-backed Cleveland businessman Bernie Moreno.
“Moreno, a native of Bogota, Colombia, who partially funded his own campaign, rode to victory after casting himself as a political outsider, who — like Trump — would go to Washington to shake things up. He and allied political action committees pilloried Dolan and LaRose as ‘career politicians.’ He built his fortune in Cleveland in luxury auto sales and blockchain technology.”
Knowing where his strengths lie, Moreno has been exploiting his Democratic opponent’s lack of experience in the private sector.
"We've lost 200,000 manufacturing jobs since Sherrod Brown's been in Washington, DC. This is a guy who has never had a job in the private sector." - @berniemoreno pic.twitter.com/Fhhn59LYg2
— Andrew Surabian (@Surabees) May 20, 2024
Moreno, who dominated the Ohio Republican Primary, speaks to another key demographic valuable to 2024 electoral politics— Hispanics.
In a March 24 interview, Moreno told Fox News anchor Maria Bartiromo, “I think President Trump will win the Hispanic vote. As you know, I came here—from Columbia, South America, where I was born—legally. To watch Biden and Brown (Sen. Sherrod Brown) reward people who break our laws that come into this country is infuriating.”
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