Moreno: Allowing men to play in women’s sports shows US weakness vs China

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WSYX) — Bernie Moreno didn’t talk about immigrants in Springfield, despite Donald Trump moving up his timetable Wednesday to deport them.

The GOP Senate candidate didn’t talk about abortionafter secretly recorded remarks last month about women over 50 not caring about the issue — which Democratic opponent Sen. Sherrod Brown has turned into a campaign issue.

And he didn’t talk to reporters, even though staffers of the facility where he spoke were setting up for a press conference for him and two other speakers who touted Moreno: Congressman Jim Jordan of Urbana and Ohio’s chief elections official, Secretary of State Frank LaRose.

But less than a week before Ohioans start casting absentee ballots, Moreno DID talk about his view that America’s weakness is shown by allowing biological men to compete against women — and using green energy instead of coal.

“Do you think in China they’re debating what you just talked about, congressman, that men can play in women sports? You think in China they’re having that argument?…

“By the way, they’re building coal-fired plants every week while we’re decimating ours, crushing our energy industry.

“They’re laughing at us.”

‘Isn’t it time we care for our own citizens?’

The Brown-Moreno contest is the nation’s most expensive, mostly because control of the Senate could hinge on the outcome.

The incumbent had no public campaign events today. But Brown and Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren sent a scathing letter to the president of US Steel for threatening to move the company’s longtime headquarters out of Pittsburgh and take thousands of jobs with it if a merger with Japanese steelmaker Nippon fails. Brown and the United Steel Workers union staunchly oppose the merger.

Foreign countries took up a large part of Moreno’s talk to around 75 supporters on the near East Side.

“How is it that we have a government in Washington, DC, that is so obsessed with sending hundreds of billions of dollars to foreign countries to help them build their communities, their schools, their hospitals?” Moreno asked.

When asked for elaboration about Moreno’s statement, a spokeswoman said he was referring to U.S. aid to Ukraine. She cited a bipartisan group that put the aid at $175 billion as of May. But she did not provide requested details to back up another Moreno statement:

“And yet they then take our money and give it to foreign nationals here in America. They house them better than they house Americans. They feed them better than they feed Americans. They pay their health care better than Americans get, and it doesn’t mean that we’re not a caring country. We are. But isn’t it time we care for our own citizens?”

Reversing the tables, Moreno compares Brown to a broken-down car dealer

Moreno says he thinks of Brown as an old, broken-down manager of a car dealership — just like the ones he fired when he bought the place.

“So what we would do is we would always replace the management,” Moreno told the crowd.

Suddenly, he said, the dealership would flourish.

“And it reminds me of Washington. You have people like Sherrod Brown who have been there so long.”

Brown has been a senator and congressman for some 30 years.

Ironically, Brown has spent much of the campaign portraying what he calls Moreno’s unethical management and worker mistreatment at his dealerships.

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