Exclusive — Sen. Marco Rubio Endorses Bernie Moreno for Senate in Ohio

🚨President Trump makes a brand new assertion on the 2024 Ohio Senate Race, “”We love Ohio and we love Bernie Moreno.”
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While Trump has but to formally endorse in the race, issues appear to be pointing that method for Moreno as the opposite two candidates in the race — Secretary of State Frank LaRose and State Sen. Matt Dolan — have been vehemently anti-Trump on numerous events. LaRose, for occasion, was caught on an audio recording unearthed this yr attacking the importance of a Trump endorsement — and he even accepted money from Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg for election operations. Dolan, in the meantime, has spent years urging Ohioans to maneuver on from Trump and ditch the previous president despite the fact that Trump stays extremely well-liked in Ohio.

The winner of the GOP main subsequent yr will face off in opposition to Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) in November’s common election in Ohio in what’s shaping as much as be — alongside Senate races in West Virginia and Montana the place Democrats are additionally defending seats in deep crimson states — one of many greatest Senate races of the yr. These three races, National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chairman Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) has informed Breitbart News, will decide which celebration controls the bulk in the U.S. Senate in 2025 and much past that as effectively. Daines has, like Moreno, endorsed Trump for president in 2024 in the Republican main.

Rubio, who has lengthy performed an lively position in primaries for open races for the Senate, has alongside folks like Vance — Ohio’s different senator, a freshman who gained in final yr’s midterm elections in massive half due to Trump’s endorsement — been selling a populist nationalist agenda in the Senate. His work on points going through American employees and households — starting from combatting the rise of the Chinese Communist Party to preventing globalization to bringing higher advantages and wages to working and middle-class Americans — has charted a path ahead for the GOP past the old-guard institution days. Rubio has mentioned this in a number of interviews with Breitbart News, together with one this summer time in which he ripped globalization worldwide and defended nationalists.

Bernie Moreno is acknowledged at a rally with former President Donald Trump on the Delaware County Fairgrounds, on April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)

“So, now you have leaders that are not socialists and are rising up to this and saying we got to have our economic policies reflect the national interest,” Rubio informed Breitbart News. “Nationhood matters. Place matters. It always has mattered. It has always mattered to the Chinese. It obviously matters to the Russians. And it should matter to Italians, and it should matter to Americans, and it should matter to everyone. We are not, at the end of the day, citizens of the world or consumers of a global market — we are first and foremost from the place we live in: community, city, country. You have that reflected in Italian politics now, as you did to some extent with Boris Johnson in the U.K. and certainly in the United States with Donald Trump and the change you see inside the Republican Party becoming a working-class party. So I think that’s just reflective of an important correction that needs to happen, not just in the U.S., but in the industrialized world in the 21st century. This 20 or 30-year experiment with global citizenry has not worked, and in fact, it has only worked to the benefit of places like China that never bought into it in the first place. They took the benefits of it, but they didn’t give up their national interest.”

Harnessing the power behind such a message — that the failures of globalization have wrought havoc upon America’s working and center courses — is extraordinarily highly effective in a state like Ohio. So, seeing Rubio — who’s rising as one of many nation’s main lawmakers driving this mental dialogue ahead — aligning with the businessman more likely to win Trump’s help in the race for the Senate is especially promising for Republicans heading into subsequent yr. That’s very true in this race, too, since Ohio’s incumbent — the Democrat Brown — often, regardless of severe corruption issues surrounding him and blatant contradictions when even simply barely perusing his report, nonetheless nonetheless falsely presents himself as a champion of working-class Ohioans in his decades-long efforts to stay in elected workplace. Whether that charade succeeds once more or not might rely on if the Republicans can discipline a candidate like Moreno who can harness Trump’s power to defeat the pretend leftist populist mirage.