‘He’s lying’: Ohio Senate candidate blames staffers and family for errors

Bernie Moreno also blamed the jury and a judge he deemed ‘a Harvard elitist lunatic’ for an unpaid-wages judgment against him. Photograph: David Dermer/AP

Bernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for US Senate in Ohio, came to the US from Colombia at the age of four. He has said he learned English through Ronald Reagan’s speeches. That claim has been questioned, but if Moreno did learn the language that way, it seems one famous speech may not have fully sunk in.

At the Republican convention in 1968, Reagan said: “It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.”