On #OHSEN Primary Eve, Field Still “Slugging It Out,” Leaving Whoever Wins With “Lasting Damage”
March 18, 2024
New York Magazine: “Moreno And Dolan Have Begun Going After Each Other With Tire Irons”
Columbus, OH – After months of the #OHSEN field “slugging it out in Ohio’s costly and contentious Republican primary,” this “nasty” and “increasingly personal” brawl means that whoever emerges will face an “uphill climb” entering the general election.
Read what they’re saying today about this “ugly” primary that’s “devolving by the hour:”
- Statehouse News Bureau: “Final weekend of Republican U.S. Senate race in Ohio is busy, bitter and brought out big bucks…”
- Statehouse News Bureau: “The race among three men fighting for the Republican nomination to run against Ohio’s incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown this fall got increasingly bitter over the last few days.”
- Roll Call: “[An Ohio voter] said he’s troubled by the increasingly bitter tenor of the race, which is playing out on the campaign trail and on the airwaves in ads funded by the candidates and a bevy of super PACs. ‘It’s been a pretty dirty campaign and that concerns me,’ he said. ‘They’re so busy digging at each other that they haven’t taken the time to express their views on the issues.’”
- Roll Call: “In the waning days of the campaign, ads by the candidates and their supporters have grown increasingly personal…”
- Rollcall: “Rich candidates and super PACs hurl attacks…slugging it out in Ohio’s costly and contentious Republican primary…”
- New York Magazine: Nasty Ohio GOP Primary Could Hurt Party’s Odds of Flipping Senate
- New York Magazine: “Moreno and Dolan have begun going after each other with tire irons…”
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