First appearance on Fox: Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno on Friday attacked President Biden on his scheduled visit to East Palestine, Ohio, citing last year’s dangerous train derailment that put local residents at risk. He claimed that visits to the region were “long overdue”.
“Joe Biden’s visit to East Palestine is long overdue, even though the current administration and Senate Democrats have focused on giving endless aid to Ukraine while neglecting their own country,” Moreno told Fox News Digital. The people of East Palestine paid the price.”
“We hope that Mr. Biden’s visit will inspire him to rise to the challenges Americans face every day, rather than continue to fund endless wars overseas,” he added.
Biden’s visit, announced by the White House last month, comes more than a year after the train derailment that rocked the rural Ohio village in Columbiana County on the Pennsylvania border. Ta.
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Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno told Fox News Digital that “Biden’s visit will encourage Americans to confront the challenges they face every day instead of continuing to fund endless overseas wars.” I hope it inspires him.” (Bernie Moreno/Getty Images)
Last month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether Biden still had plans to visit East Palestine. “The president will visit when it is most beneficial for the region,” she told reporters.
East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway told Fox last month that he believed the “best time” for Biden to visit the village “would be in February 2025 when he goes on his book tour.”
Conaway also told Fox that “the president is always welcome in our town,” adding, “That being said, I don’t know what he’s going to do here right now.”
Biden claimed in September that he simply didn’t have time to visit Ohio because of his busy schedule.
Biden’s lack of a visit was in contrast to former President Trump, who met with residents of East Palestine on February 22, 2023, just weeks after the incident. He was joined by Republican Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio.
Former President Trump visits Little Beaver Creek and water pumps in East Palestine, Ohio, following the Feb. 3 Norfolk Southern freight train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, on February 22, 2023. . (Javin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
“You are not forgotten. We stand with you and we pray for you. And we stand with you and your fight, and we stand with you,” Trump told the audience at the time. We will support them to ensure that they fulfill their responsibilities.” “Our communities have shown the tough, resilient spirit of America, and that’s what it is. This is America. We stand in America.”
Mr. Moreno, a successful Cleveland-based businessman and luxury car sales giant, announced his bid for the Ohio Senate for the second year in a row last April, calling himself an outsider and conservative. It was advertised.
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Moreno’s candidacy was endorsed by President Trump in December.
“It’s time for the entire Republican Party to unite around Bernie’s Senate campaign and win a big victory in the most important election in American history,” Trump wrote on TRUTH Social at the time. “Bernie is the father of the wonderful Emily, who is the wife of an excellent young Ohio congressman, Max Miller. Bernie is strong on borders, crime, tax cuts, election integrity, military/veterans, and a constitutional amendment under siege. He always abides by Article 2.”
Trump also claimed that Moreno “will be a great United States senator and I have his full and complete support. He will never let you down.”
Bernie Moreno is recognized at a rally with former President Trump at the Delaware County Fairgrounds on April 23, 2022 in Delaware, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)
In a second post, President Trump continued, “Bernie Moreno, the great businessman from the state of Ohio, is exactly the type of MAGA warrior we need in the United States Senate. Bernie will always stand up to the fascists.” . There are “crazy jobs” and spineless RINOS to fight the corrupt deep state that is destroying our country. ”
“Remember, the liberal politicians who don’t represent Ohio too well, pretend to be in full support of the policies of your favorite President Donald J. Trump, and then get down to business. It takes a successful political outsider like Bernie to defeat House Sherrod Brown.” The Senate votes 100% in favor of the horrible policies of crooked Joe Biden, the worst president in our nation’s history. “President Trump added.
Trump’s support likely gives Moreno an advantage over other Republican primary candidates, including Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan.
The winner of the March 19 Republican primary will take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, the only Democrat to win a statewide victory in Ohio in the past decade. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
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The winner of the March 19 Republican primary will take on Brown, the only Democrat to win a statewide election in Ohio in the past decade. Brown will be heavily targeted by Republicans in the state, which was once a battleground in general elections but has turned red over the past six years.
Moreno is an immigrant who came to the United States legally from Colombia with his family when he was 5 years old. Border security is a top priority He visited the U.S.-Mexico border during his 2022 Senate campaign. He suspended his election campaign in February last year.
Fox News’ Anders Hagstrom, Danielle Wallace and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
