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Republicans say Democrats’ hard line in Ohio Senate could backfire | U.S. Senate

Democrats, who are working to field a Republican candidate endorsed by President Trump as a way to boost their own progressive senators in the Ohio Senate, fear such efforts could backfire and cost them valuable seats. Republican aides said they needed to be careful to avoid this.

Such a tactic has been used by Democrats before, when they supported the nomination of a more extreme Republican based on the calculation that that candidate would be less likely to beat the Democrats in the general election. Of course, these tactics could backfire and extremists could be elected.

“Democrats consistently underestimate the America First movement at their peril,” said Bernie Moreno’s communications director, Regan McCarthy. Said Press.

“They thought President Trump would be easy to beat in 2016, but Trump cleared the clock by crushing Hillary Clinton. The same thing will happen with Sherrod Brown this year. ”

Democrats control the U.S. Senate by a 51-49 margin. republican party Ohio is also on the target list, with high hopes of taking back the chamber.

Mr. Brown, 71, is a leading figure on the Democratic left and was first elected to the Senate in 2006, defeating Mike DeWine.

Mr. DeWine is now the Republican governor of a once-right-leaning battleground state. In the last Senate election, best-selling author J.D. Vance announced that heconservative knuckle dragger” and took a seat elsewhere.

In this year’s Republican Senate primary, Moreno, a businessman also backed by Vance, will face off against state Sen. Matt Dolan and Secretary of State Frank LaRose, both backed by DeWine.polling indicates Close battle with Dolan in the lead. Election day is next Tuesday.

Thursday at multiple stores. report that mission and countrya group associated with the Democratic Party senate majority The political action committee had spent about $2.7 million on ads running in the state aimed at building support for Mr. Moreno among Republicans by calling him “ultra-conservative.”Too conservative for Ohio” and “too aligned” with Trump.

“Donald Trump needs Bernie Moreno.” said the ad.titled “Magafighter” after President Trump’s endorsement.

“Ohio State is not like that.”

The aim is to link attacks on reproductive rights and democracy itself, which are key themes of Democratic campaigns from Joe Biden onwards, and to challenge candidates Democrats could portray as too extreme, including Brown in the general election. It is to give him a favorable chance.

Hannah Menhoff, a spokeswoman for Senate Majority Pack, said: Said: “When Ohio voters head to the polls, they have a right to know the truth about Bernie Moreno. And the truth is that, just as Moreno supported policies that would ban and abolish abortion nationwide, Donald Trump・They are MAGA extremists who supported Trump.”Nursing Care Act.

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A similar Democratic effort was recently successful in California.Former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff is in the open primary for a U.S. Senate seat. safely It should have boosted Republican Steve Garvey over other Democrats and led to an easy victory in November.

Democrats in Pennsylvania, a state far more competitive than deep-blue California, are also finding success with these tactics. In 2022, they touted the conservative credentials of Doug Mastriano, a pro-Trump gubernatorial candidate with far-right ties and views. Democrat Josh Shapiro easily won the election.

Reid Gehlen, a former Republican operative who co-founded the anti-Trump group the Lincoln Project, said such tactics are “relatively common, but they’re not always healthy.”

“The risk, of course, is that you lose to the Trumpian guy. But that’s a hardball, something Democrats aren’t usually known for,” he said.

Galen also pointed to Brown’s strength even when targeted by national Republicans and said the senator has a “better than average” chance of re-election.

according to the vote released Mr. Brown is certainly well-positioned to retain his seat in Wednesday’s Emerson College Poll and the Hill. In a hypothetical matchup, Democrats would lead LaRose 39% to 33%, Moreno 39% to 34% and Dolan 37% to 34%.

“He’s an authority figure,” Galen said of Brown.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/14/republicans-democrats-pennsylvania-senate-seat-sherrod-brown Republicans say Democrats’ hard line in Ohio Senate could backfire | U.S. Senate

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