Husted will join freshman Republican Sen. Bernie Moreno in Washington to fill out the next two years of Vance’s term before running in a special election in 2026. The Senate flipped to a Republican majority in the 2024 election cycle and now stands at 53-47 with the appointment.

Neither Lara Trump nor Vivek Ramaswamy will join the Senate. But it’s likely the president-elect didn’t really go to the mat for their appointments.

Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday tapped Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the

Mike DeWine is expected to appoint his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to the Senate seat ... Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Husted’s interest in succeeding DeWine as ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday named Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as his selection to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance, who will be inaugurated on Monday.

In making his announcement, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine said he wanted a "workhorse" in the U.S. senate who would focus on Ohio as well as the rest of the country.

Mike DeWine (R) on Friday named his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to fill the state’s ... congressional vacancies across the country. In Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced Thursday ...

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has appointed his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to fill the Senate seat vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine has appointed his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to the Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine officially appointed Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to serve as the state’s newest member of the U.S. Senate at a press conference on Friday afternoon, January 17. Husted will join recently elected Bernie Moreno in Congress replacing Vice President-elect JD Vance, who was elected in 2020.

Two appointed senators, with the significant failure rate of those appointees, might be the helping hand that Senate Democrats need to climb back into power.