SALEM, Ohio — The three contenders slugging it out in Ohio’s costly and contentious Republican primary made a final push over the weekend to win over what polls suggest is a considerable pool of undecided voters.
Ron Grey, 70, is one of the voters who have yet to make up their minds. “I’m still noodling it over,’’ said Grey, who came to the annual Lincoln Day Dinner in Salem on Friday night to hear state Sen. Matt Dolan, Secretary of State Frank LaRose and former car dealer and technology executive Bernie Moreno make their closing arguments. The winner of Tuesday’s primary will face Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown in November.
Grey said he’s troubled by the increasingly bitter tenor of the race, which is playing out on the campaign trail and on the airwaves in ads funded by the candidates and a bevy of super PACs. “It’s been a pretty dirty campaign and that concerns me,” he said. “They’re so busy digging at each other that they haven’t taken the time to express their views on the issues.”
