Bernie Moreno, the Republican difficult Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio, appeared on Fox Information on Monday to answer the backlash he acquired after characterizing girls who prioritize abortion rights as “crazy.”
“Well, I mean, it is crazy that the media and the Democrats make women out to be single-issue voters,” Moreno stated, including, “They just use the issue of abortion not because they care about women but because they care about a political issue.”
This comes from a candidate who as soon as described his abortion place as “absolute pro-life, no exceptions.”
Moreno made his unique “crazy” remark at a current city corridor in Warren County, Ohio, saying:
Sadly, by the way in which, there’s plenty of suburban girls, plenty of suburban girls which might be like, “Listen, abortion is it, if I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want I will vote for anybody else.” Okay, it’s a little bit loopy by the way in which, however particularly for ladies which might be like previous 50, I’m considering to myself: I don’t suppose that’s a problem for you.
After these feedback have been reported, Brown informed an Ohio NBC affiliate, “I continue to be shocked that Bernie Moreno thinks he knows more, that he knows better than 57% of Ohioans who turned out to vote and said that we want constitutional right to abortion in our state.”
Regardless of all this, Ohio’s Senate race stays very shut, in keeping with 538’s polling common.