Bernie Moreno Could Defeat Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate Election

CINCINNATI — After 17 years, Sherrod Brown will no longer be a senator from Ohio. Decision Desk HQ projects that GOP challenger Bernie Moreno, a Cleveland businessman backed by Donald Trump, will defeat Brown, who is seeking his fourth term in office.

The race was most expensive Senate contest this cycle. Campaigns, parties and outside groups spent more than $400 million on election advertising, according to ad tracking company AdImpact.

Moreno is a businessman with experience in car sales. He moved to the U.S. at age 5 from Colombia and became a U.S. citizen at 18. He ran on a platform similar to Trump’s, citing border security, abortion and educational choice among his top issues.

His campaign website says he was running for Senate because “for too long, the men and women who move Ohio forward, American workers, have been left behind by career politicians like Sherrod Brown and Joe Biden.”

Brown has represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate since 2007. his biography on Senate.gov.

He ran on a platform that highlighted issues such as high-speed internet access for everyone in Ohio, protecting Medicare and Social Security, and “standing up to special interests” such as Wall Street, Silicon Valley and the railroad lobbies following the Norfolk incident -Southern to East Palestine in 2023.

One of Brown’s most important platforms was access to abortion and health care for women following the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

The latest general election results for Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana can be found here.