The president’s son has penned a blistering op-ed, laying out the stakes in the Ohio senatorial race between incumbent Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and his challenger, Congressman Jim Renacci (R-OH-16).
As campaign season heats up, it has a way of “drawing out the fakes and phonies,” says Donald Trump Jr. in an op-ed for Salem News.
And, as Trump Jr. sees it, one of the biggest frauds in the U.S. Senate is Sherrod Brown.
Yes, the president’s son has some not-so-flattering words for Ohio’s senior senator, who has worked tirelessly to undermine his father’s agenda, even as evidence continues to mount that the agenda is helping lift up the long forgotten middle class.
The biggest problem with Brown is he doesn’t understand the concept of an America that can be truly “great” both at home and abroad, an influence for good and an economic powerhouse, according to Trump Jr.
Like so many others in his party he is stuck in the “blame America first” mode.
Who could forget New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Freudian slip a few weeks ago, when he said “America was never that great”? That same belief was echoed this week by former Attorney General and potential 2020 presidential candidate Eric Holder, who suggested anyone buying into Trump’s “make America great again” must be racist. Holder added that Trump supporters are the “dregs of society.”
Brown, like his Democrat colleagues, has lost touch with everyday Americans, who are tired of being insulted by politicians in Washington.
“Sherrod Brown clearly lacks the capacity or desire to Make America Great Again,” Trump Jr. stated in the op-ed. “If Ohioans wish to see my father’s agenda succeed and continue to deliver for the Buckeye State, they must send a politician to Washington who will support him.”
But some of the most ardent anti-Trumpers in the U.S. Senate are Democrats up for reelection in states Trump won in 2016. They often pretend to be aligned with the president on issues of importance to their constituents, like trade and border security.
“Senator Sherrod Brown is a case in point. He is anything but an ally of President Trump and he carries with him a troubling voting record — a testament to his betrayal of the good people of Ohio,” Trump Jr. writes.
One example of this obstruction that sticks in Trump Jr.’s craw, was earlier this year, as his father was trying to bring sanity to the country’s disastrous immigration system.
“Brown opposed a bipartisan bill aimed at fixing the broken system.
“Senator Brown’s vote for open borders is also no surprise. In 2015, he shamefully voted against Kate’s Law, a bill that would have cracked down on sanctuary cities that willingly harbor dangerous criminal illegal aliens.”
Here are some more examples of his obstruction ticked off by Trump Jr.:
- He voted against the repeal of Obamacare and the Obamacare mandate — the $700 annual penalty levied on uninsured individuals in Ohio.
- He consistently opposed my President Trump’s political and judicial nominees. The Senator voted against 15 of the President’s cabinet nominees, including Secretaries Mike Pompeo, Alex Azar and Alexander Acosta.
- While he supported 100 percent of President Obama’s judicial nominees, Brown opposed both of President Trump’s Supreme Court nominees and also voted against over 80 percent of his circuit court nominees.
- Brown has voted with Minority Leader Chuck Schumer a whopping 94 percent of the time and has voted against my father nearly 70 percent of the time.
- Brown voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act last year — the one piece of legislation that single-handedly turned the Ohio economy around.
“Since the tax cuts went into effect, thousands of people in Ohio have seen bigger paychecks and the state’s unemployment rate reached its lowest level since 2001,” writes Trump Jr.
Many businesses in the state have been giving out bonuses, increasing salaries, and hiring more workers, but none of this has sparked a desire in Brown to stop his campaign of obstruction, he adds.
“Evidently, Brown didn’t get the memo. Ohioans made it clear during the 2016 presidential election that they support the America First agenda, which has created a booming Ohio economy. They were fed up with the establishment/Democrat agenda, which only led to the closing of factories across the state and the offshoring of jobs they once provided.
“Sherrod Brown clearly lacks the capacity or desire to Make America Great Again. If Ohioans wish to see my father’s agenda succeed and continue to deliver for the Buckeye State, they must send a politician to Washington who will support him.”
Trump Jr. believes that man is Renacci, who the president has endorsed.
Instead of a career politician steeped in Washington’s bureaucratic swampland, Renacci is a successful businessman who knows what it takes to continue the momentum of the Trump agenda.
“Ohio’s future rests in the hands of its voters, not the phonies in Congress. Let’s not let Brown thwart my father’s agenda and destroy Ohio’s progress in the process.”
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Anthony Accardi is a writer and reporter for The Ohio Star.
