Trump hush-money case: Judge permits Michael Cohen, Stormy Daniels to testify
A New York judge will allow Michael Cohen and Stormy Daniels to testify at former President Trump’s hush-money trial, overruling Trump’s objections. In two separate decisions Monday, Judge Juan M. Merchan ruled on a series of motions from prosecutors and the defense on whether to exclude certain testimony and evidence from Trump’s upcoming trial. The trial was scheduled to begin next Monday but has been delayed until mid-April after new evidence came to light. Merchan’s decision will allow Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Brag to call Daniels, an adult film actress, and former Playboy model Karen McDougal to the stand to testify about their claims that Cohen and Trump arranged payments to keep them quiet about their alleged extramarital sexual encounters with Trump. However, McDougal cannot testify about the underlying details of her reported affair unless prosecutors can show how it is relevant. The judge will also allow Cohen to testify, rejecting the defense’s claims that Cohen is a known liar who is likely to commit perjury on the stand. TRUMP TRIALS; HERE’S WHERE EACH CASE AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT AND PRESUMPTIVE GOP NOMINEE STANDS “This Court has been unable to locate any treatise, statute, or holding from courts in this jurisdiction, or others, that support Defenant’s rationale that a prosecution witness should be kept off the witness stand because his credibility has been previously called into question,” the judge wrote. The trial stems from Bragg’s investigation into Trump’s alleged hush-money payments during the 2016 election. Cohen paid Daniels $130,000 and arranged for the publisher of the National Enquirer supermarket tabloid to pay McDougal $150,000 to suppress their claims that they had affairs with Trump years earlier. Trump’s company then reimbursed Cohen and logged the payments to him as legal expenses, prosecutors said. Trump, now the presumptive Republican presidential nominee in his quest to retake the White House, pleaded not guilty last year to 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. His lawyers argue the payments to Cohen were legitimate legal expenses and not part of any cover-up. Trump says he did not have any of the alleged sexual encounters. SUPREME COURT TO HEAR ARGUMENTS IN TRUMP PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY CASE ON APRIL 25 Cohen pleaded guilty in 2018 to federal campaign finance violations related to the alleged hush-money payments and other unrelated crimes. He was imprisoned for about one year before being released to home confinement during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2019, federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York opted out of charging Trump related to the payments made to Daniels and McDougal. The Federal Election Commission also tossed its investigation into the matter in 2021. JUDGE RULES FANI WILLIS MUST STEP ASIDE FROM TRUMP CASE OR FIRE SPECIAL PROSECUTOR NATHAN WADE Merchan also ruled Monday that the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape — in which Trump bragged about grabbing a woman’s private parts without consent — will not be shown at trial. The judge said prosecutors may question witnesses about the 2005 video, which was unearthed during the final weeks of the 2016 presidential campaign. However, he added “it is not necessary that the tape itself be introduced into evidence or that it be played for the jury.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Prosecutors say the “Access Hollywood” footage and various sexual assault claims made against Trump prompted him to pay off Daniels to keep negative stories out of the press. Trump’s lawyers argued the video “contains inflammatory and unduly prejudicial evidence that has no place at this trial about documents and accounting practices.” In other rulings, Merhcan rejected a defense request that prosecutors be precluded from arguing that Trump sought to improperly influence the 2016 election or that the National Enquirer suppressed negative news coverage of him with a “catch and kill” strategy. Fox News’ Grace Taggart and Fox News Digital’s Brooke Singman, as well as The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Biden fails to acknowledge Hunter’s out-of-wedlock daughter during Women’s History Month event at White House
President Biden failed to acknowledge his seventh grandchild and fifth granddaughter, the estranged daughter of his son Hunter Biden, during remarks at a Women’s History Month reception at the White House on Monday. “I see a future for all Americans, a future for my daughter and my four granddaughters — by the way, they’re incredible,” Biden said. “You should meet my granddaughters. Oh, you think I’m kidding. I’m not.” On numerous occasions in recent years, Biden, 81, has claimed he only has six grandchildren — ignoring five-year-old Navy Joan Roberts, the daughter born out of wedlock to Hunter and Arkansas-based mother Lunden Alexis Roberts. Last July, amid backlash he had received for not acknowledging her existence, Biden spoke out publicly for the first time about his fifth granddaughter. BIDEN CLAIMS ‘ALL’ GRANDCHILDREN PROTECTED BY SECRET SERVICE DESPITE QUESTIONS OVER HUNTER’S DAUGHTER “Our son Hunter and Navy’s mother, Lunden, are working together to foster a relationship that is in the best interests of their daughter, preserving her privacy as much as possible going forward,” Biden said in a statement to Fox News Digital at the time. “This is not a political issue, it’s a family matter,” he added. “Jill and I only want what is best for all of our grandchildren, including Navy.” Biden and First Lady Jill Biden had repeatedly refused to acknowledge Navy, frequently omitting her by claiming they only have “four granddaughters.” December 2022 marked the second Christmas season in a row that the White House left Navy out of a Christmas stocking display. After acknowledging her publicly in the summer of 2023, first lady Jill Biden did away with hanging stockings for her grandchildren and pets over the mantle in the State Dining Room for the 2023 Christmas season. WHITE HOUSE SCRAPS CHRISTMAS FIREPLACE STOCKINGS AFTER BIDEN ACKNOWLEDGES GRANDCHILD FOR FIRST TIME Prior to that, in 2020, Biden incorrectly said he and the first lady had five grandchildren, forgetting about then-newborn Beau Biden, but completely leaving out Navy. At a White House “take your child to work day” event in April 2023, Biden claimed to only have six grandchildren. “I have six grandchildren, and I’m crazy about them. And I speak to them every single day. Not a joke,” he said. Hunter Biden had long denied being Navy’s father, but a 2019 DNA test proved otherwise. He has since fought to lower child support payments. Navy was born in August 2018, and Roberts filed a paternity suit in May 2019. Both parties agreed to temporary child support following the DNA test results. Hunter Biden and Roberts reached an agreement to settle the paternity and child support suit in March 2020, according to the Democrat-Gazette. The case was then reopened after he requested changes to the child support payments. In June 2023, Hunter settled his Arkansas child support case with Navy Joan’s mother. A court filing showed Hunter agreed to give his daughter some of his paintings, and the child’s mother agreed to withdraw her counterclaim to change their child’s last name to “Biden.” The White House did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Fox News’ Brandon Gillespie and Joe Schoffstall contributed to this report.
House Republicans to introduce bill ending federal funding for medical schools with DEI, ‘race-based mandates’
Two House Republicans are sponsoring legislation to stop federal funding for medical schools with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices. Reps. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, and Greg Murphy, R-N.C., will host a press conference at 2 p.m. ET on Tuesday on the EDUCATE Act, which looks “to eliminate all Federal funding, including student loans, to medical schools and accrediting institutions with race-based mandates and DEI practices,” according to a press release from Wenstrup’s office Monday. Also scheduled to speak are Do No Harm President Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, and Tabia Lee, founding member of Free Black Thought and former head of DEI at De Anza College. “American medical schools are the best in the world and no place for discrimination,” Murphy said in a statement obtained by Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “The EDUCATE Act compels medical schools and accrediting agencies to uphold colorblind admissions processes and prohibits the coercion of students who hold certain political opinions. Diversity strengthens medicine, but not if it’s achieved through exclusionary practices. Medicine is about serving others and doing the best job possible in every circumstance. We cannot afford to sacrifice the excellence and quality of medical education at the hands of prejudice and divisive ideology.” ELON MUSK CLASHES WITH DON LEMON OVER DEI LOWERING MEDICAL STANDARDS: ‘PEOPLE WILL DIE’ Both Republican sponsors are doctors, with Murphy having practiced as a podiatrist for 26 years and Wenstrup still seeing patients as a urologist in North Carolina, according to their official bios. The bill would amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to prohibit graduate medical schools from receiving federal financial assistance if they “direct, compel, or incentivize students, faculty, or staff personally state, pledge, recite, affirm, or otherwise adopt” any of the tenets of DEI or mandate classes or programs instructing those DEI principles. Those tenets include “that any sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin makes an individual a member of oppressed or oppressor categories,” “that individuals should be adversely treated on the basis of their sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin,” and “that individuals, by virtue of sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin, are inherently responsible for actions committed in the past by other members of the same sex, race, ethnicity, religion, color, or national origin” or should bear a “collective guilt.” The bill states that medical schools would be disqualified from receiving federal dollars if they teach “that America is systemically, structurally, or institutionally racist, or that racism is weaved into the ‘ordinary business of society’, or that America is an oppressive nation.” The legislative proposal comes after a clip of Elon Musk clashing with Don Lemon about the risks of DEI practices lowering medical standards went viral on Monday. The former CNN host interviewed the Tesla CEO and X owner for the premiere episode of his new program, “The Don Lemon Show.” In the episode, Lemon pressed Musk to defend his claim that DEI policies would eventually lead to patients being harmed. “If the standards for passing medical exams and becoming a doctor, especially for something like a surgeon, if the standards are lowered, then the probability the surgeon will make a mistake is higher … and that may result in people dying,” Musk said. However, Lemon was adamant that there was no proof this was taking place or that DEI policies were putting patients in danger. “There’s no evidence of that, Elon,” he argued. MANY TOP COLLEGES ‘TRAINING A CADRE OF POLITICAL COMMISSARS’ THROUGH DEI CERTIFICATE PROGRAMS: WATCHDOG “They have literally lowered the standards at Duke University,” Musk claimed in response. The watchdog group CriticalRace.org, which monitors critical race theory (CRT) curricula and training in higher education, operates an online Medical School Database to include all 155 accredited U.S. medical schools. Its findings show at least 70% provide mandatory or voluntary CRT-related coursework or training for students. Lemon claimed any suggestion that DEI policies were causing patients to die was purely “speculative.” He argued that research showed “the exact opposite” in terms of how minorities are treated in the medical system in the United States. “Most doctors now are White, and there are lots of mistakes in medicine,” he continued. In the viral clip, Lemon and Musk continued to bicker over the issue, with Lemon claiming Musk was putting forward an unlikely “hypothetical.” “If we lower standards, people will die,” Musk insisted. Fox News’ Gabriel Hays, Kristine Parks and Brian Flood contributed to this report.
New Haryana CM Nayab Saini expands cabinet, inducts 8 MLAs as ministers
Governor Bandaru Dattatreya administered the oath of office and secrecy to the new ministers at the Raj Bhavan here.
Mark Milley and former CENTCOM commander to face grilling in Congress over Biden’s Afghanistan withdrawal
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, will testify before the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday for the first time since retiring, potentially freeing him to offer new details about the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. Joining Milley will be retired Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, who served as United States Central Command (CENTCOM) commander during the 2021 withdrawal. The pair have appeared before Congress to discuss failings in the operation before, but Republicans say they may have been more tight-lipped then because they were still serving under President Biden. Both Milley and McKenzie testified in 2021 that they had advised Biden to maintain a small U.S. force in Afghanistan, rather than committing to a full U.S. withdrawal. Milley himself has described the operation as a “strategic failure,” saying he has “lots of regrets.” “It didn’t end the way I wanted it. That didn’t end the way any of us wanted it,” he told ABC News in September. “In the broader sense, the war was lost.” OBAMA LIED TO AMERICANS ABOUT WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN: BOOK The Tuesday afternoon hearing comes after months of Republican investigations into Biden’s handling of the withdrawal. Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, R-Texas., has repeatedly demanded the State Department turn over documents relating to the operation. BIDEN’S BOTCHED AFGHANISTAN WITHDRAWAL HAUNTS 2024 ELECTION AS BOOK CLAIMS ‘13 AMERICANS NEVER HAD TO DIE’ Secretary of State Antony Blinken has so far refused to offer interview notes relating to the Afghanistan after action report, which blamed senior officials for failing to prepare for all outcomes in the operation. Despite the deaths of 13 U.S. servicemembers and the abandoning of tens of thousands of Afghan allies to Taliban rule, Biden strongly believes behind closed doors that he made the right decisions during the operation, according to an upcoming book. THINK THE US EXIT FROM AFGHANISTAN WAS BAD? LOOK WHAT’S BREWING IN THE PACIFIC Following the withdrawal, “no one offered to resign, in large part because the president didn’t believe anyone had made a mistake. Ending the war was always going to be messy,” author Alexander Ward writes in the book, “The Internationalists: The Fight to Restore Foreign Policy After Trump.” Biden allegedly told his top aides, including White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan, that they had done their best given the situation and vowed to stand by them. Fox News’ Nikolas Lanum contributed to this report.
Third edition of Assam Rifles-USI Annual Seminar 2024 held in Delhi
Army veterans and highly experienced speakers, including ex-diplomats, spoke on ‘India’s becoming a USD 5 trillion economy by 2025-26: Role of North East as a Growth Engine’.
Sullivan rips reporter’s question on Biden swearing as asking ‘when did you stop beating your spouse?’
National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan likened a journalist asking about a report that President Biden had grown angry and swore over tanking poll numbers to a “when did you stop beating your spouse question.” Fox News White House correspondent Peter Doocy confronted Sullivan during the White House’s daily press briefing about a report published by NBC News with the headline, “Behind the scenes, Biden has grown angry and anxious about re-election effort.” Citing an unnamed lawmaker, the report claims that during a private meeting at the White House in January, Biden “began to shout and swear,” when allies of the president told him about slumping poll numbers in the battleground states of Michigan and Georgia over his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. “There’s a report that when President Biden was told his handling of the war between Israel and Hamas was starting to affect his poll numbers, the quote is he began to shout and swear. So when he does that, is he shouting and swearing about Netanyahu or about Hamas or about his poll numbers?” Doocy asked Sullivan on Monday. BIDEN SPEAKS WITH NETANYAHU AS US-ISRAEL TENSIONS ESCALATE OVER DIRECTION OF HAMAS WAR “This is the ‘when did you stop beating your spouse’ question because I don’t think he ever did that,” Sullivan responded. “Excuse me?” Doocy interjected, before Sullivan continued. “Well you use that as the premise of your question, which is when he does that. He – I’ve never seen him do that shout or swear in response to that. So from my perspective, that particular report is not correct,” Sullivan said. Earlier, Doocy had asked Sullivan about why Biden has allowed 32 days to pass between phone calls with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. KIRBY DODGES ANSWERING POINT-BLANK IF BIDEN BELIEVES NETANYAHU IMPEDES PEACE: ‘KNOWN EACH OTHER A LONG TIME’ “First of all, our teams are in contact every single day at every level. President Biden gets a daily – twice daily, sometimes nine times daily – update on what is going on. And he reserves his calls for the prime minister for when he believes there’s a clear, key strategic moment that needs to come forward,” Sullivan said. “Point two, the prime minister, of course, knows how to reach President Biden. If the Prime Minister felt he needed the president for some reason, he would have picked up the phone and called. And of course, in the last 32 days, President Biden has never declined a phone call from Prime Minister Netanyahu,” he added.
Ohio Supreme Court primary begins as Democrats try to flip court from Republican control
Tuesday’s Democratic primary for one of three contested seats on the Ohio Supreme Court will kick off a high-stakes battle for partisan control of the court this fall. The court, which currently has a 4-3 Republican majority, holds sway over how to implement an amendment to the state constitution protecting abortion rights that voters overwhelmingly approved last year. Ohio is one of 33 states with supreme court races this year and among the few where voters have an opportunity to flip partisan control of the court. GOP CANDIDATE BLASTS AP ‘HIT PIECE’ AS ‘DEBUNKED’ AFTER ADULT WEBSITE FOUNDER CALLS ALLEGED PROFILE A ‘PRANK’ To do so, Democrats must sweep all three races in November, retaining two incumbents — Justices Michael Donnelly and Melody Stewart — and winning an open seat. That will be a difficult task, given that the state Supreme Court has been under Republican control since 1986 and the former swing state’s overall politics have tacked right in recent years. But Democrats see an opening after 57% of Ohio voters backed a reproductive rights measure last fall. They plan to draw attention to the court’s influence over the amendment’s future and see the races as a possible way to chip away at the Republican Party’s longstanding control of all three branches of government in Ohio. Only one seat is contested in Tuesday’s primary. In the Democratic primary, Lisa Forbes, a judge on the 8th District Court of Appeals, faces Judge Terri Jamison, who sits on the 10th District Court of Appeals. The winner will face Dan Hawkins, a Republican judge of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, for the one open seat in November. Before becoming a judge of that court, Hawkins worked in the Franklin County prosecutor’s office and as a judge in the Franklin County Municipal Court. Forbes, who is endorsed by the Ohio Democratic Party, has served on the 8th District Court of Appeals since 2020. Before then, she was a partner at a Cleveland office of a national law firm, where she focused on business and consumer class-action law. Jamison, who won 43% of the vote in a 2022 race against Ohio Supreme Court incumbent Pat Fischer, a Republican, has served on the 10th District Court of Appeals since 2020. She also served two terms as judge of the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas Domestic Relations and Juvenile Division, was a public defender in Franklin County and started her own law firm. If elected, Jamison would be the third Black woman to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court. During their campaigns, both candidates have hinted at the importance of building a Democratic majority on the court. “The Supreme Court needs to be an effective firewall to protect our democracy, our constitutional rights and the rule of law,” Forbes said in a campaign ad. “I will never bend to political pressure, and I will always stand up for your rights.” Jamison said in a campaign ad that the Ohio Supreme Court “should be accessible to everyone, not just the wealthy or powerful.” “It can provide checks and balances to those who overreach or abuse power,” she said. Besides abortion, redistricting, public education, health care, the environment and criminal justice may also arise as campaign issues. Forbes and Jamison are seeking their party’s nomination for the seat to which Republican Joe Deters was appointed by the governor in 2022. Deters has decided to challenge Justice Melody Stewart, a Democrat, for her seat instead, where the term runs through 2030 — four years longer than what’s available on his current seat. The incumbent-versus-incumbent primary would tend to favor the Republican, given the state’s politics. In the third court race, Democratic Justice Michael Donnelly will face Hamilton County Common Pleas Court Judge Megan Shanahan, a Republican, in November’s general election. Stewart and Donnelly were elected to the then-all-Republican court in 2018.
Israel sending delegation to DC after White House blasts lack of ‘coherent strategy’
White House officials will meet with an Israeli delegation in Washington to discuss details of Israel’s plans to invade the Gaza Strip city of Rafah. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan claimed Israel lacks a “coherent and sustainable strategy” for preventing civilian deaths in further Gaza operations. The delegation, whose timing has yet to be announced, is just further evidence of growing friction between President Biden’s administration and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. “A major ground operation there would be a mistake, it would lead to more innocent civilian deaths, worsen the already dire humanitarian crisis, deepen the anarchy in Gaza, and further isolate Israel internationally,” Sullivan told reporters during a White House press briefing. “More importantly, the key goals Israel wants to achieve in Rafah can be done by other means,” he added. DOSSIER REVEALS INFORMATION USED TO EXPLAIN UN AGENCY’S DEEP TIES TO HAMAS IN GAZA Sullivan went on to describe a conversation between Biden and Netanyahu that took place Monday. “The president has repeatedly made the point that continuing military operations need to be connected to a clear strategic end game,” Sullivan said. “The president told the prime minister again today that we share the goal of defeating Hamas, but we just believe you need a coherent and sustainable strategy to make that happen.” NETANYAHU BLASTS SCHUMER, BIDEN OVER WANING SUPPORT FOR ISRAEL The White House has refused to lay out specific warnings for what may happen if Israel moves forward with a Rafah invasion that does not meet Biden’s standards. KIRBY DODGES ANSWERING POINT BLANK IF BIDEN BELIEVES NETANYAHU IMPEDES PEACE Biden himself appeared to suggest that he could cut off weapons deliveries to Israel in the event of mass civilian casualties, but the White House smoothed over the warning on Monday. “What the president said today was, ‘I want you, Mr. Prime Minister, to understand exactly where I am on this. You need a strategy that works…. There is a better way,’” Sullivan said.
Trump’s immense GOP clout on the line in contentious Republican primary in crucial Senate battleground
PARMA, Ohio – Voters head to the polls Tuesday in Ohio, where a closely watched and increasingly contentious Republican Senate primary has become a high-profile test of former President Trump’s immense grip over the GOP. The winner of the primary will face off in November’s general election against one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats in a race that may determine whether Republicans win back the chamber’s majority. “If you want somebody who’s going to be more liberal than Mitt Romney in the United States Senate, then vote for Matt Dolan,” businessman Bernie Moreno argued at a rally in this suburban Cleveland city on the eve of the primary. Moreno, who is the Trump-endorsed candidate in the race, compared Dolan – his main rival for the GOP nomination – to Romney, the establishment Republican senator from Utah who is reviled by Trump and the MAGA movement. SIX KEY SENATE SEATS REPUBLICANS AIM TO FLIP IN NOVEMBER Moreno’s barbs came two days after Trump – who parachuted into the state to headline a rally for Moreno – insulted Dolan as a “weak RINO” [a derogatory acronym which stands for “Republicans in name only”] and charged that the state senator is “trying to become the next Mitt Romney.” TRUMP AND TOP ALLIES MAKE FINAL PITCH IN CONTENTIOUS REPUBLICAN SENATE PRIMARY As Moreno was wrapping up a campaign swing with two top Trump loyalists and America First all stars – Sen. JD Vance of Ohio and Arizona Senate candidate and 2022 GOP gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake – Dolan was teaming up with two-term Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, a former U.S. senator and state attorney general. “The person who clearly has the best shot at winning in the fall is Matt Dolan,” DeWine told the crowd at a campaign event in Columbus, Ohio’s capital city, as he argued that Dolan is the strongest candidate to take on longtime Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown in November. The third major candidate in the race is Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose. Trump, meanwhile, is aiming for a repeat performance in Ohio. Two years ago, the former president backed Vance in a crowded and combative Republican Senate nomination race, boosting him to victory in the 2022 primary a couple of weeks later. OHIO REPUBLICAN US SENATE CANDIDATE BERNIE MORENO HAS SPECIAL MESSAGE FOR GOP MEMBERS WHO ‘DON’T LIKE’ TRUMP Fast-forward to the present, and Trump – who last week clinched the Republican nomination and is now the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee – returned to Ohio on Saturday as he aimed to boost Moreno. Vance and another top Trump ally, Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, also spoke at the rally outside of Dayton. The event was announced hours after Dolan – a former top county prosecutor and Ohio assistant attorney general whose family owns Major League Baseball’s Cleveland Guardians – was endorsed by DeWine. Days earlier, Dolan landed the backing of former Sen. Rob Portman. DeWine and Portman are considered top members of Ohio’s Republican old guard or establishment. “President Trump, Jim Jordan, and JD Vance’s view of the party, which is who’s endorsed me or do you want to go back to the Bush, Cheney, Mitt Romney vision of the party?” Moreno told Fox News Digital at a campaign event in Milford, Ohio, on Sunday night. “That’s the question. A vote for Dolan is a vote for 1980s Republicans that we thought were extinct, but unfortunately they haven’t. But on Tuesday, we’ll make it finally extinct here in Ohio.” Moreno, an immigrant who arrived in the U.S. legally from Colombia and became a successful Cleveland-based businessman and luxury auto dealership giant, was endorsed by Trump in December. “We’re going to have President Trump in the White House, that’s for certain,” Moreno predicted. “But what we need is strong fighters in the Senate to make sure we get the [Trump America First] agenda implemented.” Dolan, along with Moreno, is making his second straight bid for the Senate in Ohio. Additionally, Dolan, who is the only one of the three major candidates not to seek Trump’s endorsement, has highlighted that he is a supporter of Trump’s policies but not the former president’s personality. “I’m the only one in this race that’s cut taxes and reduced regulations. Who else has done that? Donald Trump,” Dolan highlighted in a Fox News Digital interview in Columbus on Monday. “Everyone wants to talk about Donald Trump’s endorsement. I’m the only one who’s actually done Donald Trump policies because it helps Ohio.” “Bernie wants to be divisive. I want to be inclusive of all Republicans,” Dolan claimed. “I’m not interested in dividing the Republican Party. I’m interested in when we put conservative agendas in place, Republicans win. When that happens, Ohioans and Americans are better off. That’s the message I’m running on.” Millions have been spent by the campaigns and aligned super PACs – mostly on behalf of Dolan and Moreno – to flood the airwaves with negative attack ads. LaRose has criticized both of his wealthier rivals, but he has not had the financial firepower to keep pace with Dolan and Moreno. “I’m the one that Sherrod is the most afraid of. It’s pretty clear and the old saying is they only try to tackle you when you have the ball,” LaRose claimed in a recent Fox News Digital interview. “The Democrats have been attacking me because they know I’m the most dangerous weapon against Sherrod Brown.” In the closing stretch, Democrats started meddling in the Ohio GOP primary. Duty and Country PAC, which is funded by Senate Majority PAC, the top super PAC supporting Senate Democrats, dished out nearly $3 million in the final days ahead of the primary to run ads boosting Moreno, whom they view as the weakest general election nominee. There was another major development in the primary race last week, as The Associated Press published a report claiming that an adult hookup website account was created in 2008 using an email linked to Moreno. Pushing back against the