Bernie Moreno (February 1967-) was a Republican US Senator from Ohio from 3 January 2025, succeeding Sherrod Brown.
Biography[]
Bernardo Moreno was born in Bogota, Colombia in 1967, the brother of Luis Alberto Moreno, and he was raised in Fort Lauderdale, Florida from the age of five. He worked at General Motors before working for The Herb Chambers Companies in Boston and buying a Mercedes-Benz dealership near Cleveland, Ohio in 2005. He became president of a car dealership company before selling a number of his dealerships in 2019 and founding a blockchain-based technology company. He ran for the US Senate in 2021, but he dropped out of the race after meeting with Donald Trump. In 2023, he settled over a dozen wage theft lawsuits, paying over $400,000 to two former employees. He again ran for Senate that year, and he defeated Democratic incumbent Sherrod Brown, helping flip the Senate in favor of the GOP. Moreno was anti-abortion with no exceptions, opposed LGBT "indoctrination," supported nuclear energy and the use of fossil fuels, supported building a Southern border wall, and opposed aid to Ukraine and Israel.