GOP’s Bernie Moreno Outside Democrat Sherrod Brown’s Office: Democrat Senator Covered Up Biden’s ‘Mental Decline,’ but ‘Gig Is Up’

Ohio Republican Senate candidate Bernie Moreno appeared outside Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-OH) office Thursday morning, declaring he covered up President Joe Biden’s “mental decline,” but the “gig is up,” per reports.

In a post on X Thursday, Punch Bowl News Senior Congressional Correspondent Andrew Desiderio shared an image of Moreno outside of Brown’s office talking to what appears to be a handful of reporters.

“Ohio GOP Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is outside Sen. Sherrod Brown’s (D-Ohio) office slamming Brown for ‘covering up’ Biden’s ‘mental decline,’’ Desiderio wrote:

Samantha Jo-Roth of the Washington Examiner reported that Moreno noted Brown and Biden have been longtime “close personal friends” and that Brown was well aware of the “cognitive decline.”

“Sherrod Brown has been very, very close personal friends with Joe Biden. For decades. He knew that Joe Biden was in cognitive decline,” he added:

According to a third report out of the gaggle from Fox News Radio Capitol Hill Correspond Ryan Schmelz, Moreno also said Brown is “now hiding from his lies because he knows that the gig is up… People have seen what you can’t unsee,” seemingly in reference to Biden’s disastrous debate performance in June. Biden’s showing ignited chatter on the left about potentially replacing him as the presumptive nominee:

Notably, Brown, who seeks reelection in red state where Republicans swept all statewide races in 2022, said Monday voters have “legitimate questions” about the president but refused to abandon Biden.

“I’m not a pundit,” Brown said Monday, according to NBC News. “I’ve talked to people across Ohio. They have legitimate questions about whether the president should continue his campaign, and I’ll keep listening to people.”

On Tuesday, Brown refused to say whether Brown should step down as the nominee.

“Should he step down, in your opinion?” A Fox News reporter asked Brown:

“I’ve said what I’m gonna say,” Brown responded.

On a Zoom call Tuesday evening, the senator conceded “that Democrats are ‘nervous’ about President Biden negatively impacting down-ballot races if he remains at the top of the ticket,” as the Daily Mail’s Jon Michael Raasch wrote in a report published Wednesday:

While commenting about the video in a post on X, Moreno emphasized that Brown “isn’t saying he’s concerned about the fact that the President is clearly in decline”:

“His only concern is how Biden’s cognitive decline, which Sherrod helped cover up for years, might affect Democrats *politically* in November,” he added.

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