The three main Ohio Republicans who are in the mix to run against Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown next year had quite different reactions to ex-President Donald Trump’s arraignment on federal charges earlier this week.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — and his decisive role in deciding last year’s GOP Senate primary in OhioBernie Moreno, the Cleveland businessman, was in the room when Trump held a defiant public appearance on Tuesday evening at Trump’s resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. Hours earlier, Trump
“What’s happening to President Trump isn’t just blatant election interference from Biden’s DOJ – it’s a miscarriage of justice,” Moreno said in a statement. Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose also hasn’t said anything on social media about Trump’s arrest. But he’s also not an official candidate in the race,
LaRose’s latest statement alludes to the FBI’s investigation in 2016 into the use of a private email server by that year’s Democratic presidential nominee, Hillary Clinton, to convey confidential information during Clinton’s tenure as U.S. secretary of state. The FBI’s then-director, James Comey, decided not to pursue criminal charges in that case.
“As Donald Trump’s shadow ‘hangs heavy’ over Ohio Republicans’ ‘family fight,’ this is the latest indication of just how messy and chaotic this primary battle will get,” ODP spokesperson Reeves Oyster said in a statement.
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