HOLLAND, Ohio — The Lucas County Republican Party held a campaign rally for U.S. Sen. candidate Bernie Moreno at its headquarters Tuesday night.
"Wonderful to have him here," said Lucas County GOP president Barbara Orange. "Lucas County, Toledo is really important to the election."
The special guest for the rally was Donald Trump Jr., the son of former president Donald Trump, who urged voters to cast ballots for change in the general election.
"It does not have to be this way," said Trump Jr. "Just because we are accustomed and growing accustomed to Democrat policies failing us each and every day does not mean we have to accept it."
Toledoan Kelly Luck, who attended the rally sees immigration, inflation and education as the top priorities for Republicans in this election cycle, and said that it's important to flip the perennially blue Lucas County.
"There's a lot of Democrats and people in the community that need to get on the Republican bus," Luck said. "We're welcoming in everyone with open arms."
The campaign for Sen. Sherrod Brown, the Democratic opposition to Moreno in his third term, provided WTOL 11 with the following statement about the rally:
"Bernie Moreno is trying to distract from his record of screwing his workers out of the overtime pay they earned and deliberately shredding evidence to try and get away with it, selling Chinese-made cars that hurt Ohio autoworkers, and supporting a national abortion ban. Ohioans know that while Sherrod Brown fights for them, Bernie Moreno only looks out for himself."
But for Moreno and Trump Jr., they want America and Ohio to have a fresh start.
"We have to do that and we have to get everyone across the line, down the ticket," Trump Jr. said.
Orange said that effort "all starts with the grassroots."
"You've got to get your school boards, your county commissioners, your state representatives, all of those local candidates, which actually build up to change the dynamics and everything going on in the community," she said.