Republican businessman Bernie Moreno is projected to win the U.S. Senate race in Ohio, according to Decision Desk HQ.
Moreno was projected the winner in the race over Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) 50.7% to 46% with 86% of the vote in.
Moreno’s victory could go a long way toward determining which party has control of the U.S. Senate starting in January.
Brown, who has been in office since 2007, had been losing ground in the polls against Moreno for months.
Brown had attempted to present himself as a moderate, especially on energy, vowing that he would “not turn my back on Ohio’s rural electric co-ops, Ohio energy workers, and Ohio families whose energy bills are already too high.”
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In September, however, he participated in a campaign event alongside a radical environmentalist group pushing to close the state’s largest coal…