Sen. Sherrod Brown to face Trump-backed candidate in race key to Senate control

The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell

Lawrence O'Donnell, MS NOW

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🗓️ 20 March 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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NBC News projects Trump-backed candidate Bernie Moreno has won the Ohio GOP Senate primary. Also, Donald Trump rants on social media about being unable to secure a $454M bond for the New York fraud judgment. Plus, Trump asks the Supreme Court for absolute immunity on his election charges. And new Biden campaign ads reach out to Latino voters. Sen. Sherrod Brown, Tim O’Brien, Andrew Weissmann, and Simon Rosenberg join Lawrence O’Donnell.

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0:00.0	It's time now for the last word with Lawrence O'Donnell. Good evening
0:04.3	Lawrence I think you got a big guest lined up. We do. We have the winner of the
0:09.3	Democratic Senate primary in Ohio and that of course is Senator
0:14.2	Sherrod Brown he's going to be joining us tonight on Ohio primary night.
0:17.6	Andrew Weisman will be joining us this evening with more defendant Trump
0:21.9	news including this astonishingly
0:26.3	insane appeal to the United States Supreme Court that we're going to get to during
0:31.0	this hour. You have a great show my friend. Thank you,
0:33.6	well tonight NBC News is projecting that once again
0:39.0	Joe Biden will win a much larger percentage of the vote in the Democratic
0:45.2	presidential primary in Ohio than Donald Trump will win in the Republican
0:50.5	presidential primary in Ohio.
0:53.5	Joe Biden currently has 87% of the vote.
0:57.4	Donald Trump currently has 79% of the vote.
1:01.1	And NBC News projects that the Republican nominee for Senate
1:05.5	in the state of Ohio will be the Trump-endors candidate Bernie Moreno.
1:09.7	Bernie Moreno is running for the Senate seat held for the last 17 years by Senator
1:15.0	Sherrod Brown who won his primary tonight with 100% of the vote.
1:22.0	Bernie Moreno got 49.7 percent of the vote in a primary against a more moderate
1:28.4	Nicky Haley-style candidate Matt Dolan who has 33% of the vote. If the Trump Republicans win the Senate seat in Ohio
1:38.3	then they will almost certainly take control of the United States Senate with a Republican majority leader and
1:44.5	with Republican chairman in every Senate committee. That would mean that
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