Republican candidate Bernie Moreno won the Senate race defeating Ohio’s incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
As of 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, Moreno won with 50.5% of the votes. Brown received 46.1% of the votes and Libertarian Party candidate Don Kissick received 3.4% of the votes, according to the Associated Press.
In Athens County, Brown was favored and received 13,966 votes out of 24,449 total votes. Moreno received 9,593 votes and Kissick received 865 votes. There were 25 write-in-votes and 25 votes not assigned.
Brown has been in office since 2006 and is a lifelong Ohioan. Brown worked to make the Earned Income Tax Credit permanent and planned to overhaul the tax code to put people first.
Brown served as the Chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee and played a prominent role in passing the Wall Street reform law which established new consumer protection laws.
This election cycle, Brown supported issues such as increasing the federal minimum wage, strengthening policies protecting discrimination and expanding funding for public schools and healthcare, according to a previous report by The Post.
Moreno was born in Bogota, Colombia. Moreno’s family moved to the United States when he was 5 years old, and he became a U.S. citizen when he was 18 years old.
Moreno opened his first car dealership in 2005 and turned that dealership into one of the largest car dealership groups in America. In 2018, he co-founded Champ Titles, which eliminated the need for states to issue paper titles. Moreno has since sold most of his businesses to focus on politics.
Moreno said he would fight to shrink government size and spending to combat inflation. Moreno also supports Israel and said he would fight against selling American businesses and user data to China, according to a previous report by The Post.
Former President Donald Trump endorsed Moreno, according to the Associated Press.
On his website, Moreno said he is running for the United States Senate for the men and women who move Ohio forward and American workers who he said have been left behind by career politicians like Brown and President Joe Biden.
Moreno supports a ban on late-term abortions and vows to defend constitutional rights, specifically Second Amendment rights. He wants to secure America’s borders and destroy the Mexican Drug Cartels.
Moreno also wants to enact term limits for members of Congress and restore election integrity. Moreno wants to “end wokeness and cancel culture” in the U.S., according to his website.
As of Tuesday night at 11:30 p.m., neither Brown nor Moreno have commented on the results.
