Ohio Republican Sen.-elect Bernie Moreno suggested President-elect Donald Trump was able to speak to the needs of Latino voters in the 2024 election cycle, something he argued “white, woke liberals” are overlooking.
Following Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, many Democrats and liberal media personalities have pointed fingers over who was responsible for Harris’s defeat. MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough suggested “misogyny” among Hispanic and black male voters is partially to blame, though Moreno contended this analysis from the media would not “go well.”
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“What Hispanics want is what every demographic group wants in America; they want to be able to live an American dream,” Moreno said on Fox Business’s Mornings with Maria Bartiromo. “And that means being able to have basic necessities not be unaffordable, be able to afford a home, afford a car, be able to not have three jobs in order make ends meet, be able to raise a family, and be able to have a society in which women are protected from having men in sports and not having conversations about giving gender-affirming care, whatever that means, to children, because that’s just nuts. So, these are the things that Hispanics care about.”
Moreno, who is himself a migrant from Columbia, added that migrants leave their countries for the United States due to their governments becoming “overbearing,” and Latinos supporting Trump was because he was the antidote to “socialist ideology.” As such, he predicted the Latino vote would be won by Republicans “overwhelmingly” in the next election cycle.
The Republican candidate further explained that Trump has been able to “shatter” the media’s narrative that Republicans dislike Latinos and that the party’s calls for a secure border are not related to race but instead about helping others achieve “the American dream.”
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Moreno was running against incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), besting the Democratic candidate in his bid for a fourth six-year term in office. In his victory speech, Moreno spoke of a “new dawn of Republican leadership” and promised to help enact Trump’s “America First” agenda.
Moreno was not the only Republican candidate to beat a third-term Democratic senator, as Republican Sen.-elect Tim Sheehy also won his election against incumbent Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT). Around $250 million was spent between Democrats and Republicans in Montana, a state with a population of just over 1.1 million, making it the costliest race in the state’s history.