Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) has raised $5.7 million in the first two months of this year amid his controversial campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate, his campaign announced.
The Friends of Sherrod Brown campaign reports that the three Republicans currently have $13.5 million on hand. compete in the primaries He will face the Democratic incumbent in November.
Businessman Bernie Moreno, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose and state Sen. Matt Dolan have all won Republican support in the state, which is a top target for Republicans to undermine the Democratic Senate majority. I’m fighting to try.
“The group of unaffordable rich people vying to run against Mr. Sherrod is no match for the thousands of supporters who are supporting his reelection,” said campaign manager Rachel Petrie.
Brown ran out of office last year, according to a year-end Federal Election Commission filing. $14 million At the bank, LaRose gets smaller. $771,000Moreno’s 2 million dollars and Dolan’s $4.8 million.
Moreno appears to have risen to the top of the Republican race ahead of Ohio. March 19th primary election.
Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), chairman of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee, said all Republican candidates in the Ohio race are capable of defeating the three-term incumbent and that Republicans remain neutral in the state. He said that But Daines also warned earlier this year that Republican candidates in states like Ohio are facing “very strong incumbent Democratic senators who know how to win in red states.”
Former President Obama won Ohio in 2008 and 2012, and former President Trump won in both 2016 and 2020. Trump, the Republican front-runner, has an 11-point lead in battleground states, according to Decision Desk Headquarters/The Hill polling average. President Biden in a hypothetical 2024 matchup.
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