#OHSEN Slugfest Ends On “Vicious Note,” Leaving Nominee “Significantly Weakened”
March 18, 2024
NBC: “Ohio’s GOP Senate Primary Ends On A Vicious Note”
Columbus, OH – The “increasingly personal” #OHSEN Slugfest is “end[ing] on a vicious note,” which even Republicans note will leave whoever emerges from tomorrow’s primary “significantly weakened,” with “bruises to show for it,” “lasting damage,” and with an “uphill climb” entering the general election.
Read what they’re saying about this “ugly” primary that’s “getting nastier by the day” and “devolving by the hour:”
- WVXU: “Whoever wins the GOP primary will have an uphill climb.”
- The Enquirer: “While Tuesday’s primary is anyone’s ballgame, the sparring guarantees one outcome: Whoever wins will enter the general election against Brown with bruises to show for it.”
- Politico:“The Republican Senate primary in Ohio has turned nasty, negative and chaotic… has become an all-out brawl in the final leg of the race.”
- HuffPost:“Few if any Republican primaries this year are turning out to be as competitive as Ohio’s deadlocked three-way race on Tuesday”
- Washington Post:“In the final days before Ohio Republicans cast their votes to select a Senate candidate to challenge incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D), political jabs in the GOP race have gotten increasingly personal.”
- Politico:“…the Buckeye State is home to a bruising intraparty fight, one that Republicans worry could produce lasting damage to the eventual nominee and threaten their chances…”
- Business Insider: “Yet the chaotic three-way race — in which Moreno, Dolan, and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose have lobbed insults at one another for months — has also raised the possibility that whoever emerges from the primary will be significantly weakened in the general election.”
- Politico: “‘It’s pretty ugly. Unfortunately, we’re at a phase where there’s a lot of negative advertising. I think, obviously, that will eventually harm the nominee,’ said Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio). ‘The more negative dollars you spend attacking each other, the more it makes it harder.’”
- The Enquirer: “Ohio’s Republican U.S. Senate primary is heading for a brutal finale… in a race that became more vicious by the day.”
- HuffPost: “The interplay has gotten nasty and personal, with the campaigns swiping at each other…”
- NBC News: “Ohio’s Republican Senate primary was already a mean-spirited and mudslinging affair, careening viciously toward a tight and bitter finish.”
- Politico: “The final days of the three-way Republican primary to take on Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown has devolved into a messy brawl.”
- Washington Post: “The fight between Moreno, Dolan and LaRose has been personal and dirty…”
- Politico: “…the bloodbath has arrived… As the primary enters its most brutal phase, the frustration is palpable… it’s hard to keep track of the attacks.. outbreak of fighting… the internecine mudslinging”
- New York Times: “With just days to go before the election, the three-way Republican Senate primary in Ohio has turned into a food fight…”
- The Hill: “The battle to become the Senate GOP’s nominee in Ohio against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D) is getting nastier by the day… a three-way brawl”
- Washington Examiner: “As the Ohio GOP Senate primary approaches, the contest is becoming increasingly contentious…”
- Politico: “The airwaves are swamped with negative disses… And the attacks clearly rattle their various targets.”
- Washington Post: “The Ohio Senate primary…has been exceptionally ugly.”
- Columbus Dispatch:“Trump’s visit added gasoline to a primary contest that’s heated up in recent weeks… the candidates are locked in a tight battle as the race nears its end…”
- Washington Post: “The final weekend of campaigning has culminated in personal attacks representative of the past several months of bitter campaigning.”
- NBC:“…millions of dollars flooding the Buckeye State’s airwaves and nasty attacks among the candidates escalating.”
- The Enquirer: “Ads fan flames as Ohio primary approaches ends… Spending for the primary surpassed $48 million as of Friday, according to AdImpact, with groups unleashing a torrent of ads over the past week alone.”
- NBC:“…the race has turned increasingly hostile as it remains in a competitive haze… Sniping among the candidates’ advisers and allies has grown especially vicious”
- Politico:“an increasingly vicious Senate GOP contest…a heated three-way brawl…a primary that’s turned into a barroom brawl…”
- CNN: “…messy, contested, three-way primary”
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