Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, whose political career started when he was elected in Ohio in 1974 during President Gerald Ford’s presidency, saw his tenure come to an end when Trump-backed challenger Bernie Moreno was declared the winner in the most expensive non-presidential race in American history.
With 91 percent of the vote counted, the Associated Press called the race at 11:27 p.m. Moreno had 50.6 percent of the vote (2,667,385) percent of the vote compared to percent for 46 percent (2,428,433) for Brown.
Spending on the Brown–Moreno clash reached $500 million, eclipsing the $412 million spent on ads during Georgia’s 2020 Senate race between Jon Ossoff and David Perdue….