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Ohio's GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno says abortion isn't "an issue" for women "past 50"
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The Republican nominee for U.S. Senate in Ohio says he doesn't think abortion is "an issue" for women who are "past 50," while suggesting that many suburban women are single-issue voters on abortion, according to video footage obtained by local station WCMH-TV from a town hall Friday.
Trump-endorsed Republican businessman Bernie Moreno is running to unseat incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat in a red-leaning state.
"You know, the left has a lot of single issue voters," Moreno says in the video. "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.' OK. 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.'"
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