Ousted Democrat Sen. Sherrod Brown refuses to call victorious GOP opponent Bernie Moreno

Columbus, Ohio – The five-decade career of Democratic superstar Senator Sherrod Brown ended suddenly GOP challenger Bernie Moreno scored an upset last week — but Ohio’s senator-elect is still waiting for the traditional concession call.

Moreno and sources close to his campaign confirmed to The Post that Brown made no efforts to contact or acknowledge Republicans on election night or the next morning.

A week later, Moreno has not received any text messages from Brown or even his staff, sources close to him again told The Post — although the new senator called Brown on election night and personally defeated Were completely ready to accept.

Sources say Moreno has no concerns and is focusing on hiring and organizing the senatorial staff.

This has become twice as important a task as the imminent Capitol Hill departure Vice President-elect J.D. Vance, also from Ohio, would surpass Moreno to become the Buckeye State’s de facto senior senator.

From there, the 57-year-old has a very simple and public item at the top of his first term agenda: snatching the gavel from the very blue hands of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer.

“I’ve got a message for Senator Schumer: Thanks for your help during the primaries, but you’re fired, buddy,” Moreno said during his election-night acceptance speech near Cleveland. “We are fed up with politicians who call us garbage. “We are fed up of being treated like trash.”

It seems Ohio agrees.

Voters in the state supported Moreno by about 4 points.

That’s less than 6 points short of Vance winning his statewide race in 2022, and much smaller than the almost unbelievable 11.3-point margin with which the president-elect was elected. Donald Trump secures Ohio Around this time.

The low numbers show that Brown still has some serious popularity. But when pundits said the race was too close, the apparently defeated Democrat took it literally.