SORRY VIVEK: Ohio Lt Gov To Fill Vance’s Senate Seat

January 17, 2025 Politics, Republicans

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to name Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill the Senate seat that Vice President-elect JD Vance is vacating, multiple sources tell CBS News. DeWine is expected to announce his selection at a 1 p.m. press conference Friday. The announcement will end months of speculation and jockeying for the seat Vance held for just two years. DeWine, who is a former U.S. senator, has been tight-lipped about who might replace Vance in the Senate.

Wealthy Trump ally and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was also floated as a possibility for the job. Trump tapped him to co-lead the “Department of Government Efficiency,” a new advisory body meant to tackle federal spending and waste. Ramaswamy has been largely quiet after he took to social media in December to criticize U.S. culture as venerating “mediocrity” and seemed to suggest Americans are lazy, prompting backlash.

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Ohio’s new Senator Jon Husted said the 2020 election “was not stolen” and called on Trump to “honor the Constitution,” “the traditions of America,” and “the peaceful transition of power” after the January 6th riot. pic.twitter.com/o2DX2dWxG9

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