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Bernie Moreno, a Republican endorsed by <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/donald-trump/" target="_blank" class="contextual_link">Donald Trump</a>, advanced Tuesday to a general-election matchup against Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) in a contest that could determine control of the U.S. Senate.

Moreno, a Cleveland-area businessman, beat out two traditional Republicans on Tuesday, with a considerable margin over state Sen. Matt Dolan — who was endorsed by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R) — and Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R), the Associated Press projected. Ahead of what is expected to be an expensive, contested general-election race, Moreno’s win reflected the power of Trump to influence the outcome of contested Republican primaries.

The Senate Republicans’ campaign arm declined to back any candidate in the primary, unlike some of the other Senate races that the Republican Party is targeting this cycle. However, after Moreno’s win, National Republican Senatorial Committee Chairman Steve Daines (Mont.) said in a statement that he offered Moreno his “full endorsement as we fight to secure a conservative Senate majority.”

Moreno said he spoke with Trump shortly before his victory speech and credited the former president and his allies for his success. “The reality is we have an opportunity now,” he told supporters.

Democratic groups have spent money on ads on Moreno in recent weeks, because some strategists view him as an easier opponent for Brown — who faced no challengers in the primary — to defeat in a general election.

Democrats hold a narrow 51-49 Senate majority and Republicans have ample opportunity to win back the majority in this year’s election. The GOP is well positioned to pick up a seat in West Virginia, where Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin is retiring, and they are eying pickups in two other states Trump won in 2020 — Montana and Ohio. Nonpartisan analysts have given Democrats long odds of retaining the Senate, and holding Ohio, where Trump has had success in recent elections, would be key to defying expectations and keeping control of the chamber.

Ohio has moved politically to the right in recent years, and the fiercely contested primary race could prove to be a bellwether for Trump’s clout in a state that voted for him in 2016 and 2020. Trump and <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/candidates/joe-biden-2024/" target="_blank" class="contextual_link">President Biden</a>, who have amassed the delegates needed to clinch their parties’ nominations, continued their winning streaks in other primary states on Tuesday.

In the days leading up to the costly, contentious Senate race, political jabs among LaRose, Dolan and Moreno became increasingly personal. Republicans’ ad spending in the race reached more than $42 million, according to tracking firm AdImpact, with most targeted spending painting opponents as being liberal.

In one ad, Moreno’s super PAC accused LaRose of being too sympathetic to gay and transgender causes, superimposing a rainbow flag behind him and surfacing a supportive message that LaRose previously shared with an LGBTQ+ rights group.

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In the final stretch of the campaign, Moreno dismissed an Associated Press report that an account on Adult Friend Finder, a website for casual sexual encounters, was created with Moreno’s work email address and posted on the site in 2008 seeking “men for 1-on-1 sex.” The Washington Post has not independently verified the AP report. The candidate’s lawyer provided the AP with a statement from a former Moreno intern, who said he created the account as “part of a juvenile prank.”

Meanwhile, in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, state Rep. Derek Merrin was projected to win the Republican primary. He would face off against vulnerable Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D), the longest-serving woman in Congress.

Trump endorsed Merrin hours before polling places opened in the Toledo-area congressional district, the latest development in a roller coaster of a primary in which 2022 Republican nominee J.R. Majewski considered stepping aside, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/02/28/jr-majewski-primary-special-olympics/?itid=lk_inline_manual_12" target=_blank>insisted he would stay in</a> and then <a href="https://twitter.com/JRMajewski/status/1764022617726394685" target=_blank>dropped out</a> earlier this month amid backlash over disparaging comments he made about people with mental disabilities.

Also on Tuesday, Trump won the uncontested Republican primaries in Ohio, Arizona, Illinois, Kansas and Florida. Biden notched wins in those states’ Democratic primaries, except in Florida, where Democrats canceled the primary. About 1 in 5 voters in Florida’s Republican primary, which is closed, cast their ballots for a candidate other than Trump, indicating a lack of interest in the presumptive nominee among some GOP voters in Trump’s home state.

In southern Illinois, incumbent GOP Rep. Mike Bost narrowly survived a primary challenge from former state Sen. Darren Bailey, the unsuccessful Republican nominee for governor in 2022. Trump had endorsed Bailey when he ran for governor, but the former president threw his support to Bost in this race.

In Illinois’ heavily Democratic 7th Congressional District, longtime Rep. Danny K. Davis (D) was projected to win, defeating challengers including Kina Collins, a community organizer who narrowly lost to Davis in 2022, and Melissa Conyears-Ervin, the city treasurer of Chicago. In the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/results/2024/03/19/illinois-house-district-13-primary/" target=_blank>13th District</a>, Joshua Loyd was projected to win the Republican nomination, beating Thomas Clatterbuck.

In California’s 20th District, Republican Vince Fong advanced to a special runoff election to complete the term of former speaker Kevin McCarthy (R), but the race for the second candidate who will advance to the runoff had not yet been called. Fong is a State Assembly member and McCarthy’s former aide.

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