GOP Senate Nominee Asks Why Older Women Care About Abortion | EUROtoday

Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno in Ohio questioned final week why older girls care a lot about abortion rights, saying it was a “little crazy” that some voters cited reproductive rights as their prime challenge heading into the November election.

“You know, the left has a lot of single-issue voters,” Moreno stated throughout a city corridor occasion Friday in Warren County, video of which was obtained by WCMH-TV in Columbus, an NBC affiliate. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion is it. If I can’t have an abortion in this country whenever I want, I will vote for anybody else.’”

“It’s a little crazy, by the way, but ― especially for women that are like past 50. I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you,’” he stated.

Moreno, 57, is working in opposition to Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown. The race will likely be one of many most-watched through the election as Republicans hope to win again the Senate, and it’s already the most costly of the election cycle so far. Polling reveals an in depth race with simply over a month to go till voters head to the polls.

Brown posted footage of Moreno’s remarks on X (previously Twitter) on Monday, noting that his opponent thought it was “crazy” to assume girls needed to “make their own healthcare decisions.”

Moreno’s marketing campaign solid his remarks as a joke in a press release to WCMH-TV, saying they have been meant to focus on Brown and “members of the left-wing media” that prefer to “pretend that the only issue that matters to women voters is abortion.”

“Bernie’s view is that women voters care just as much about the economy, rising prices, crime and our open southern border as male voters do, and it’s disgusting that Democrats and their friends in the left-wing media constantly treat all women as if they’re automatically single issue voters on abortion who don’t have other concerns that they vote on,” Reagan McCarthy, a spokesperson for Moreno’s marketing campaign, stated in a press release.

About two-thirds of voters who help Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, listed abortion rights as “very important” to their vote in a Pew Research survey earlier this month, whereas simply over one-third of these backing former President Donald Trump stated the identical.

Other points have been extra urgent to a wider swath of Americans, particularly the financial system, entry to well being care and appointments to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Trump has continued to tout his appointment of three conservatives to the nation’s highest bench, together with three of the justices who joined to finish the longstanding nationwide proper to an abortion after they struck down Roe v. Wade.