CLEVELAND – A new ad The slowest race in the Ohio Senate race Here, past election victories make for a positive connection between vulnerable Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown and former President Donald Trump, who have bolstered the state’s Republican tilt.
“He wrote the bill that Donald Trump signed to fight narcotics at the border,” Scott, a retired Marine Corps veteran and retired detective who lost a son to opioid addiction, says of Brown. stain Duty and Honor, a group of Democrats affiliated with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “Sherrod’s case will prevent more families from going through what we did.”
The ad, first shared with NBC News, will debut on statewide television and digital platforms Friday and is backed by $2.4 million.
“Sherrod Brown worked across the aisle to pass a bill that increased law enforcement’s ability to fight the flow of fentanyl because he put the needs of Ohio families first,” said Duty and Honor President JB Poersch. “Ohio deserves to know that Brown is an independent leader and will work across the aisle to get things done for Ohio.”
Brown faced Republicans supported by Trump Bernie Moreno, a former car salesman and blockchain entrepreneur, in a general election expected to spend hundreds of millions of dollars. Brown and Sen. John Tester of Montana, another red-state Democrat running for re-election, are their respective parties’ top picks. weak Senate majority.
The Position and Honor ad represents the first general election push in Ohio by a Schumer-aligned constellation of foreign money groups that includes Senate Majority PAC. Another related organization, Duty and Country PAC, posted an ad Touting Moreno’s conservative credentials in the final days of the Republican Senate primary is widely seen as an effort by Democrats to influence the outcome and woo their preferred general election opponent.
Since March 19, campaigns and outside groups have spent or reserved more than $200 million to advertise in Ohio’s Senate race leading up to the Nov. 5 election, according to AdImpact, an ad-tracking firm. Democrats spent or reserved $112.2 million, and Republicans $96.5 million. These numbers are subject to change if airtime is cancelled.
New ad references pro-Brown Prohibition ActThe Department of Homeland Security has implemented new measures to prevent the flow of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids into the U.S. Brown. original co-sponsor of the Senate version of the bill was among those in the Oval Office in January 2018. Trump signed bipartisan legislation became law.
“In my state of Ohio, 11 people a day die from opioid overdoses,” Brown said. signing ceremony, then-Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla. “This is an important bill. The next step is for us to actually provide dollars to communities so we can expand treatment.”
It was recently passed as part of the Brown-sponsored FEND Off Fentanyl Act foreign aid package It was signed into law by President Joe Biden. Brown with size was introduced last year With Sen. Tim Scott, R.S.C., he aims to disrupt fentanyl supply chains by imposing tougher sanctions and financial penalties against drug cartels and other fentanyl traffickers.
Brown, a longtime progressive, has tried to emphasize common ground with Trump in the past. especially in matters such as foreign tradethat both men approach from a populist perspective.
Trump, who won Ohio by about 8 percentage points in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, criticized Brown’s efforts to build cooperative relationships.
“He claims to be my best friend until he comes in and then he goes to the radical left all the time,” Trump said of Brown at a rally for Moreno in Vandalia, Ohio, in March. “You know, if you listen to his commercials, he sounds like he’s running with Trump. He is not.”