DeWine expected to name Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill Senate seat vacated by Vance
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Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to name Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the US Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance, two sources with knowledge of the decision told CNN.
Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to name state Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the US Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance, two sources with knowledge of the decision told CNN. Husted emerged as the favorite over the last few weeks after visiting Donald Trump alongside DeWine at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago resort in December. It was not clear at the time, though, whether Husted had his eye on the Senate or was potentially seeking an endorsement for his expected 2026 gubernatorial campaign. By abandoning his hopes of succeeding DeWine, who is term-limited, and going to the Senate, Husted might have cleared a path for a closer Trump ally: Vivek Ramaswamy. Currently slated to help lead Trump’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency alongside billionaire Elon Musk, Ramaswamy is also believed to be considering a run for governor of his own in Ohio. In the Senate, DeWine’s decision upholds the status quo, with Republicans enjoying a narrow majority after a successful 2024 campaign. Though similar temperamentally, Husted comes from a different tradition of conservatism to Vance, who occasionally overlapped with progressives on populist-infused economic matters. Husted is a fiscal hawk who often touts passing “the most conservative state budget in 40 years” during his time as state House speaker and, in his official biography, says he ran the secretary of state’s office without public funds during his last two years in the post. Still, it was Husted who delivered Vance’s nominating speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee last summer. “The man who accepts this nomination,” Husted said of Vance, “accepts with it the awesome responsibility to give wise counsel to the president, to represent America abroad, to preside over the Senate and to be ready to lead our nation at a moment’s notice.”
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