Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (AP Photo/Paul Vernon, File)
LaRose was referring to a 2019 interview, that his campaign has posted on social media, comparing it to messaging from Democrats, where Moreno said he doesn’t believe in taking guns away but questioned why someone needs "100 bullets at time" and asked how "you are going to eat a deer that has 100 bullets in it?"
LaRose also questioned Moreno’s six-year tenure as a board member of a Cleveland Foundation that gave money to a Michael Bloomberg-linked anti-gun group, suggesting that Moreno should have resigned in protest when the foundation gave money to liberal causes.
GOP SENATE CANDIDATE IN BATTLEGROUND STATE RAILS AGAINST VULNERABLE DEM INCUMBENT: 'OUT OF TOUCH'
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Matt Dolan (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)
Polling in late January by Emerson College suggested all three candidates are essentially tied. Polling released by the Moreno campaign this week showed him holding a 10-point lead but also showed that 27% of voters are undecided with just a couple weeks left before the primary.
Ohioans will decide on Tuesday, March 19, which candidate will become the GOP nominee to square off against incumbent Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in a race the Cook Political Report rates as a "toss up" and which will have a significant impact on Republican attempts to take back control of the U.S. Senate.
LaRose told Fox News Digital that voters he speaks to are "fearful" that a Republican who isn't strong on the Second Amendment will go up against Brown, who he says is in lockstep with Biden on an anti-gun agenda.
"This is why when I hold my campaign events around the state, I've got a lot of pro-gun people showing up because they know when it comes to this issue, there's only one candidate they can really trust," LaRose said.
"There are a lot of good Second Amendment advocates in Ohio who support our agenda," Dean Rieck, executive director of Buckeye Firearms Association, told Fox News Digital. "However, Frank LaRose is a longtime partner who has always gone the extra mile to improve our laws and protect the rights of Ohio's 4 million gun owners. He'll be a great senator representing us in Washington, D.C."
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