{"id":2372995,"date":"2024-11-24T21:50:03","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sherrod-brown-claims-gop-challenger-moreno-didnt-run-a-clean-race-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-11-24T21:51:56","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:51:56","slug":"sherrod-brown-claims-gop-challenger-moreno-didnt-run-a-clean-race-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sherrod-brown-claims-gop-challenger-moreno-didnt-run-a-clean-race-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Sherrod Brown claims GOP challenger Moreno didn\u2019t run a \u2018clean\u2019 race &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsherrod-brown-claims-gop-challenger-moreno-didnt-run-a-clean-race-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2372995&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent interview, long-time Senator Sherrod Brown\u2063 (D-OH), who\u2063 recently lost his reelection bid to Republican candidate Bernie Moreno, \u2062criticized Moreno&#8217;s campaign by claiming it was not run &#8220;cleanly&#8221; and was heavily influenced by &#8220;lies&#8221; from negative advertisements. Brown lost the \u200crace \u2063by over 3\u200d percentage points, a significant shift given his strong \u2062presence and engagement with voters throughout his tenure.\u200d He\u2062 expressed his expectation to win based on the enthusiasm he witnessed \u2063during his campaign and blamed \u2063his loss on the influence of Donald Trump and the large sums of money spent on negative ads, which he argued were misleading. \u2063Brown highlighted that Trump\u2019s unpopularity and the performance of Vice President Kamala Harris were also detrimental to his campaign, stating that the negative ads had a substantial impact on the election outcome.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Sherrod Brown claims GOP challenger Moreno didn&rsquo;t run a &lsquo;clean&rsquo; race<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1890749\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Despite being handily defeated in his run for reelection, long-time Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sherrod-brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Sherrod Brown<\/a> (D-OH) claimed on Sunday that Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno&rsquo;s (R-OH) flipping of his seat wasn&rsquo;t &ldquo;clean&rdquo; and was fueled by &ldquo;lies&rdquo; from negative ads run during the <a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/2024-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">election cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Speaking with CNN&rsquo;s Manu Raju, Brown was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/11\/24\/politics\/video\/sherrod-brown-ohio-democrats-losing-working-class-ip-digvid\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"asked\">asked<\/a> about what specifically went wrong in his Senate race in the Buckeye State, in which he lost to Moreno by over 3 percentage points, or around 200,000 votes, 50.2% to 46.4%. Brown had held his Ohio Senate seat since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Brown said that he &ldquo;expected to win,&rdquo; pointing to the &ldquo;enthusiasm&rdquo; he had seen in voters in his state and at his rallies, before pinning the blame for his lose on Vice President Kamala Harris, who drastically underperformed on Election Day, losing every <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-more-votes-than-voters-in-key-swing-states\/\" title=\"Trump: More Votes Than Voters in Key Swing States\">key swing state<\/a> and even the popular vote to President-elect Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I expected to win because I&rsquo;m out a lot and I talk to workers, I talk to people year-round. I come home, I listen to people, that&rsquo;s where my ideas come from. I expected to win because of that. &hellip; What I didn&rsquo;t see is the ad they did at the end where Trump said voting for Sherrod Brown is voting against me. And when the leader of your ticket runs 12 points behind almost, you can&rsquo;t overcome that,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Raju suggested Trump then made the &ldquo;difference&rdquo; in Brown&rsquo;s Senate race, to which Brown agreed but pivoted to focusing on the money and &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">nasty negative ads&#038;rdquo<\/a>; in the election cycle.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of things made the difference. I&rsquo;d say it&rsquo;s the money and Trump. I mean that kind of money, for month after month after month, with nasty negative ads, all of which were found to be not true by neutral fact-checkers. I guess that&rsquo;s how you win a race. You lie, you spend a lot of money, and then you, as my opponent, hope that your candidate [Trump] would win by a lot.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo;s campaign has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/controversial-democratic-kansas-state-legislator-arrested-for-second-time-in-a-month\/\" title=\"Controversial Democratic Kansas State Legislator Arrested For Second Time In A Month\">faced significant scrutiny<\/a> in the aftermath of the election for how much money was poured into her candidacy. While Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3222249\/how-kamala-harris-plowed-through-1-billion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"spent \">spent <\/a>$378 million on advertising from July 22 to Nov. 5, Harris&rsquo;s campaign and its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-kamala-harris-plowed-through-1-billion-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"How Kamala Harris plowed through  billion - Washington Examiner\">affiliated committees dropped<\/a> more than $654 million during that same time frame. Her campaign also made the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3232421\/harris-campaign-struggling-pay-senior-staffers-financial-straits-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"decision\">decision<\/a> to freeze payments to its senior staffers &mdash; despite previous promises to keep those employed on the pay rolls through December.<\/p>\n<p>Raju then asked, &ldquo;You don&rsquo;t think Bernie Moreno ran a clean race,&rdquo; to which Brown suggested Moreno didn&rsquo;t by telling Raju he could look at the ads run during the campaign and &ldquo;connect that dot&rdquo; to answer his own question.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/washingtonexaminer.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You can be the judge of that. I think when you run ads that are proven to be lies by fact-checkers. You&rsquo;re a pretty smart analyst, Manu, and you can connect that dot and let you do it,&rdquo; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/congressional\/3215224\/sherrod-brown-bernie-moreno-ohio-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"flipping\">flipping<\/a> of Brown&rsquo;s seat was the decider for cementing their control of the Senate, the first time they have held the majority in almost four years.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1890749\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1890749\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sherrod Brown alleges GOP&#8217;s Moreno ran an &#8216;unclean&#8217; campaign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3359,"featured_media":2372996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sherrod-brown-ohio-senate.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45643,36797,24594,32227,32076],"class_list":["post-2372995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-clean-race","tag-gop-challenger","tag-moreno","tag-sherrod-brown","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/sherrod-brown-ohio-senate.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372995"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2372999,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372995\/revisions\/2372999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2372996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}