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Republican · U.S. Senator, Ohio · Ohio · Spectrum score +50
Senate ·
Bernie Moreno is U.S. Senator, Ohio in Ohio. Political positions and ideology score +50 (Right). Moreno is the dealer.
- College
- University of Michigan, B.B.A.
- Spouse
- Bridget Moreno
- Children
- Four
- Résumé
- U.S. Senator · Ohio · 2025–
- Auto dealer / chief executive · Collection Auto Group · 2005–2024
- Net worth
- $45.0M
- Salary
- $174,000
- Before office
- $40.0M
- 2026 raised
- $3.5M
- Years in office
- 1
Member of Congress · frozen since 2009
Where Bernie stands on the spectrum
Bernie Moreno scores +50 on Spectrum’s left–right line (right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.
Composite +50 · Right · economic +38 · social +63 · authoritarian +35
Confidence 86. How we calculate scores →
Background & record
Moreno is the dealer. The file is a self-funded 2024 that the NRSC treated as a gift, a business that lives on floor-plan financing and factory allocations, and a Senate office that now votes on the agencies that police dealers. The lot is the ideology.
Finances
Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.
Net worth
$45.0M
+13% since taking office
Candidate estimate, 2025
Car dealerships. He bought the Senate the way he bought inventory.
Money in · 2026 cycle
- Raised
- $3.5M
- Cash on hand
- $8.0M
Top industries
- Auto dealers
- Self-funding
- Republican PACs
Stock holdings
Private companies / family office
Floor-plan financing, not a tech book. The lots are the holding.
Auto dealerships, 2025 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit
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Moreno dealership group
Self · Auto regulation
$20.0M–$40.0M
Sum of ranges $20.0M–$40.0M · midpoint $30.0M
X sentiment
Last 7 days
Odds
Polymarket · Kalshi
Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.
Live wire
Live · checked just now
New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.
Conflicts
- Dealer fortune vs auto-regulation and EV fights.
- 2024 self-funder who now has a caucus to answer to.
Issue detail
−100 left pole · +100 right pole
- Economic
- +38
- Social
- +63
- Authoritarian
- +35
- Confidence
- 86
- Taxes & spending+36
Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint
- Health care+30
Private insurance markets, fewer mandates
- Climate & energy+68
Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates
- Business regulation+38
Deregulation and lighter administrative state
- Labor & wages+14
Flexible labor markets, right-to-work
- Immigration+92
Tighter borders, more deportations
- Abortion+46
Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood
- Guns+68
Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits
- Crime & policing+74
More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform
- Schools & speech+58
Choice, against gender/DEI curricula
- Defense & alliances+40
Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence
- Civil liberties+36
Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality
No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.
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Updated August 2026.