Former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks on Saturday during a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)
Trump's trip comes three days before Tuesday's GOP Senate primary, when Moreno will face state Sen. Matt Dolan, and Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose.
On the Ohio Senate race, Trump called Moreno a "hero" and "a winner" and urged voters to elect him to replace the "radical left Democrat Sherrod Brown."
"Ohio needs to defeat your horrendous radical left, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who pretends he's my best friend. He pretends he's my best friend, then he goes radical left all the time," Trump said before a large crowd in the Dayton suburb of Vandalia. "If you listen to his commercials, he sounds like he's running with Trump. He's not. He's not with me."
U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio (Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The U.S.-Mexico border was a focus of Trump’s Ohio speech, as was Biden’s border policies which he criticized as allowing violent migrants to enter the U.S.
"We’re going to fix it again," Trump said of the border. "Among my very first actions will be to stop the invasion of our country and send Joe Biden’s illegal aliens back home."
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Trump also took issue with Biden apologizing last week for using the word "illegal" to describe Riley’s alleged killer during the State of the Union speech.
"They have a new term for people coming into our country," the former president said of the Biden administration. "They call them ‘neighbors.’"
The line was an apparent reference to a recent White House handout that referred to illegal immigrants as "newcomers."
"One week ago, I met with the family of a 22-year-old nursing student, Laken Riley, who was brutally murdered in Georgia last month while out on a morning run," the former president said Saturday. "She was so badly beaten up, unrecognizable. Laken's killer was set loose into the United States through Joe Biden's program of releasing military-age males into our community after they've illegally crossed our southern border."
Supporters of former President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump listen as he speaks Saturday in Vandalia, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)
"There's never been a president so bad," Trump said of Biden. "There's never been anything like it. He's incompetent, he's crooked."
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The former president urged people to go out and vote Tuesday, and again in November to elect him and other Republicans.
"But with your vote, we're going to take back the Senate. We're going to win Ohio in November. We're going to win by a lot," Trump said.
Former US President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump arrives to speak Saturday at a Buckeye Values PAC Rally in Vandalia, Ohio, a suburb of Dayton. (Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP via Getty Images)
During the speech, Trump had a notable issue with the wind affecting his teleprompters. He used the moment to swipe Biden again.
"We can give a non-teleprompter speech," he persisted. "Isn’t it nice to have a president that doesn’t need to use a teleprompter?"
Trump then summarized his 2024 campaign pitch with four priorities: Seal the border, stop inflation, drill for oil, and prevent World War III.
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Moreno, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. legally from Colombia, and later became a successful Cleveland-based businessman and luxury auto dealership giant, was endorsed by Trump in December.
The winner of the GOP primary will face off in November against Brown, who is the only Democrat to win statewide in Ohio over the past decade. The seat is contested as Republicans seek to win a majority in the U.S. Senate.
Democrats control a slim 51-49 majority, but Republicans have a favorable Senate map in 2024, with Democrats defending 23 of the 34 seats up for grabs.
Fox News Digital’s Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
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