"I hope that Biden's visit will inspire him to confront challenges that Americans are dealing with every day rather than continuing to fund endless wars abroad," Ohio U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno told Fox News Digital. (Bernie Moreno/Getty Images)
Last month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether Biden still had plans to visit East Palestine. She told reporters, "The president will visit when it's most helpful to the community."
East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway told Fox last month that he believed the "best time" for Biden to travel to the village "would be February of 2025, when he is on his book tour."
Conaway additionally told Fox, "The president is always welcome to our town," adding, "that being said, I don’t know what he would do here now."
Biden had claimed in September that he simply had not had time with his busy schedule to visit the Ohio town.
Biden's lack of a visit came in contrast to former President Trump, who met with residents of East Palestine on Feb. 22, 2023, just weeks after the incident. Joining him was Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.
Bernie Moreno is acknowledged at a rally with former President Trump at the Delaware County Fairgrounds on April 23, 2022, in Delaware, Ohio. (AP Photo/Joe Maiorana, File)
In a second post, Trump went on to say, "Bernie Moreno, a highly respected businessman from the GREAT State of Ohio, is exactly the type of MAGA fighter that we need in the United States Senate. Bernie will always stand up to the Fascist ‘nut jobs’ and the spineless RINOS in order to fight the corrupt Deep State that is destroying our Country."
"Remember, we need a successful political outsider like Bernie to defeat Liberal career politician, Sherrod Brown, who has so poorly represented Ohio, and pretends that he’s all for the Policies of your Favorite President, Donald J. Trump, but then gets to the Senate and votes 100% for the horrendous Policies of Crooked Joe Biden, the worst President in the History of our Country," Trump added.
Trump's endorsement will likely give Moreno an advantage over other Republican primary candidates, including Frank LaRose, who serves as Ohio’s secretary of state, and state Sen. Matt Dolan.
The winner of the March 19 GOP primary election will challenge incumbent Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown — the only Democrat to win statewide in Ohio in the past decade. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
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The winner of the March 19 GOP primary election will challenge Brown, who’s the only Democrat to win statewide in Ohio in the past decade. Brown will be heavily targeted by Republicans in a state that was once a premiere general election battleground but has shifted red over the past six years.
Moreno, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. legally from Colombia with his family as a 5-year-old boy, made border security a top issue during his 2022 Senate campaign and visited the U.S.-Mexico border. He suspended his campaign in February last year.
Fox News' Anders Hagstrom, Danielle Wallace and Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
Kyle Morris covers politics for Fox News. Story tips can be sent via email and on X: @RealKyleMorris.
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