MAGA Senate Candidate’s Weird Thoughts on Older Women Spark Backlash
Ohio’s Republican Senate nominee Bernie Moreno thinks it’s “crazy” that female voters only care about abortion.
Moreno was caught speaking candidly about some of his female constituents during a town hall in Warren County Friday, in footage obtained by NBC4 WMCH.
“You know the left has a lot of single-issue voters,” Moreno said. “Sadly, by the way, there’s a lot of suburban women, a lot of suburban women that are like, ‘Listen, abortion’s 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 past 50. I’m thinking to myself, ‘I don’t think that’s an issue for you,’” Moreno continued.
Moreno remarked that this kind of statement might “get him in trouble”—and it has.
Former Republican presidential primary candidate Nikki Haley didn’t mince words about Moreno in a post on X Tuesday morning. “Are you trying to lose the election? Asking for a friend,” she wrote.
Ohio’s current Senator Sherrod Brown also posted about Moreno’s off-color comment. “Bernie Moreno thinks he knows better than the 57% of Ohioans who made themselves clear on this issue,” Brown wrote.
In another post, Brown wrote, “Bernie Moreno thinks it’s ‘crazy’ that women want to make their own healthcare decisions.” Sometimes the campaign ads just write themselves.
A spokesperson for Moreno clarified that the Republican wasn’t making a misogynistic claim but, rather, a misogynistic joke.
“Bernie was clearly making a tongue-in-cheek joke about how Sherrod Brown and members of the left-wing media like to pretend that the only issue that matters to women voters is abortion,” Reagan McCarthy wrote in a statement to WMCH.
“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,” McCarthy added.
By his own spokesperson’s definition, Moreno is pretty disgusting.