Ohio Says Goodbye to Anything Other Than MAGA

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The Bulwark

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Trump-endorsed businessman Bernie Moreno easily won the GOP senate primary in Ohio on Tuesday, and will face off against Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in November. Dems are thrilled, because they think the MAGA candidate and his scandals give them their best shot at keeping the seat. And how many votes is Nikki Haley getting after dropping out? What does it mean for the general election?

Plus, the debate over Donald Trump's "bloodbath" comments continues to rage, and not all our hosts agree the coverage has been fair. At the same time, Trump has threatened to prosecute Cassidy Hutchinson and the Jan. 6 committee as part of his latest authoritarian promises.

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0:00.0	Book your ticket to happiness with Sun Express Airlines. Hello everyone this is J. B. L. here with my best friend Sarah Longwell and Tim
0:29.5	Miller of the Bulwark. We got a full docket today. We had another primary in Ohio, the Buckeyes State. We haven't
0:37.8	gotten together the three of us to talk about the American bloodbath that's coming and Trump taking aim at
0:43.6	Cassidy Hutchinson and then I am on fire about Judge Eileen Cannon.
0:50.4	We'll save that for the third so that my hate fire can build over the course of these three hours
0:56.6	All right I'll just set the table right now last night we thought that maybe the normy Republican Matt Dolan might have had a chance.
1:06.1	Might have had a chance against Bernie Moreno who is a terrible candidate in Ohio.
1:09.9	He just owns a car dealership and does a little crypto and you know is the kind of guy who has interns
1:17.0	who think it would be a fun prank to set up adult friend finder profiles of him
1:27.1	which is a totally normal thing that all of us who have had interns have had happen.
1:30.1	And he won by 18.
1:32.1	Yeah, to the top. Guys, can I just tell you how implausible this is?
1:34.0	I have a room of young people who are my colleagues and who work with me, but I am their boss.
1:42.0	The idea that one of them would go into one of my accounts, my work account, and create any kind of dating profile searching like first of all they know if they like they'd
1:56.3	never find their bodies if they did that but like more important they just
2:00.4	wouldn't it would never occur to them. They might do it to Barry.
2:04.0	For people who haven't read, people should don't know, they're talking about, go look at the Mark
2:07.1	Computer. Did a very wonderful breakdown of this weird story where this intern signed up a
2:11.9	adult friend or finder account where Bernie Moreno was looking for young men.
2:16.2	But like, yeah, so exactly a prank, okay, it's a prank, it's like your direct boss maybe, you're pranking them. It's April
2:23.2	Fool's Day for an intern to do this to the head of the car dealership.
2:27.5	Also it's not clear that there's any records that he actually interned there.
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