Sen. Sherrod Brown, left, and President Biden (Getty Images)
Brown declined to answer a third time and continued on his way.
"While facing his toughest election yet, Sherrod Brown is running from his decades-long record of supporting green energy schemes that burden hardworking Ohioans with higher prices and cripple our energy sector," Reagan McCarthy, communications director for Brown’s Senate opponent, Republican businessman Bernie Moreno, told Fox News Digital in a statement.
"Make no mistake, Brown supported Joe Biden’s radical anti-energy agenda since day one of this administration."
Moreno also posted the exchange on X, saying, "Sherrod Brown won’t answer because the truth is that he is a green new deal radical that wants to crush American autoworkers and hand our industry to China."
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"Sherrod Brown and Joe Biden don’t just want to ban gas cars, they want to overhaul the entire American economy to appease their far-left base," National Republican Senatorial Committee Spokesman Philip Letsou told Fox News Digital.
"The Democrats’ green energy agenda is enriching China while wreaking havoc on American manufacturers, and Sherrod Brown is with them every step of the way."
The exchange also generated criticism from social media users.
"That's because Sherrod Brown is a Green New Deal radical who agrees with Biden!!!" Donald Trump Jr. posted on X.
Placard on the exterior of the EPA Building in Washington, D.C. (iStock)
"At a time when millions of Americans are struggling with high costs and inflation, the Biden administration has finalized a regulation that will unequivocally eliminate most new gas cars and traditional hybrids from the U.S. market in less than a decade," American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers President and CEO Chet Thompson and American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers said in a statement after the EPA rules were announced.
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"As much as the president and EPA claim to have ‘eased’ their approach, nothing could be further from the truth."
Brown is facing a hotly contested re-election contest against Moreno in November that the Cook Political Report ranks as a toss-up and many believe provides one of the best chances Republicans have to gain control of the Senate in a state Trump carried by eight points in 2020.
Fox News Digital's Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report
Andrew Mark Miller is a reporter at Fox News. Find him on Twitter @andymarkmiller and email tips to AndrewMark.Miller@Fox.com.
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