Mike DeWine will appoint Lt ... Bernie Moreno, who took the oath of office earlier this month after defeating former Sen. Sherrod Brown in November. Husted will serve in the Senate through 2026 and must run that year if he wants to keep the seat.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine has selected Lt. Governor Jon Husted to fill the U.S. Senate seat left open when Vice President-elect JD Vance resigned. Husted will join Bernie Moreno as the other U.S. Senator from Ohio.

Vivek Ramaswamy, who was also seen as a possible replacement for the vice president-elect, is widely expected to run for governor of Ohio instead.

J.D. Vance had four years left on his Senate term before he resigned from his seat. Jon Husted is expected to take his place.

Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday named state Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the US Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.

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.

Same day Lt. Gov, Jon Husted was sworn in as Ohio's U.S. Senator, Vivek Ramaswamy exited DOGE expecting to enter the Ohio Governor's race next week.

Political leadership is shifting in the state of Ohio. Since Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine appointed Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill Vice President J.D. Vance’s Ohio Senator seat until the November 2026 special election,

Ohio's attorney general and a former state senator have officially put their names in for top jobs in state government.

Yost, 68, is the first major Republican to fully launch a campaign for Ohio governor in 2026, when current Gov. Mike DeWine is term limited. Two other prominent Republicans — 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and state Treasurer Robert Sprague – are also expected to roll out their campaigns soon.

Vivek Ramaswamy and others made moves after Jon Husted bowed out of the Ohio governor's race to become a U.S. Senator.

Ohio is having its political glow-up. The state, often pretty vanilla in its political presentation to the country, all of a sudden is filled with prominent figures — all affiliated with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.