JD Vance

Bestselling author JD Vance has won Ohio's contentious and hyper-competitive GOP Senate primary, buoyed by Donald Trump's endorsement in a race widely seen ...

She defeated former Cincinnati Mayor John Cranley in a race that drew relatively little attention as much of the state focused on the contentious Senate Republican primary and the ongoing redistricting legal battle. On the Democratic side, Whaley became the first woman in state history to receive a major party’s backing. However, the only thing that could save us is if the Republicans nominate a bunch of far-right crazies that are unacceptable in a general election.” Vance had been trailing in the polls until the former president backed the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and one-time Trump critic in a contest that revolved largely around him. LaRose will face Democrat Chelsea Clark, a suburban Cincinnati City Council member and businesswoman, in November’s general election. Tuesday marks the first multistate contest of the 2022 campaign and comes the day after the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion that suggests the court could be poised to overturn the 1973 landmark Roe v. He has denied the charges. Vance had been behind in the polls before Trump waded into the race less than three weeks ago, endorsing the “Hillbilly Elegy” author and venture capitalist despite Vance’s history as a staunch Trump critic. Still, DeWine didn’t take any chances and poured millions into advertising during the race’s final weeks. Such a decision could have a dramatic impact on the course of the midterms, when control of Congress, governors’ mansions and key elections offices are at stake. Vance will face Democrat Tim Ryan, the 10-term Democratic congressman who easily won his three-way primary Tuesday night. Vance’s win brings to a close an exceptionally bitter and expensive primary contest that, at one point, saw two candidates nearly come to blows on a debate stage.

Now the Republican nominee for Senate in Ohio, Mr. Vance owes his ascendant political career in large part to Donald Trump, whose style he has tried to ...

Out of high school, Mr. Vance enlisted in the Marines and served in Iraq as a public affairs officer. He castigated “idiots” in Washington and “scumbags” in the news media. He was perpetually running behind his rivals in polling, and Mr. Thiel’s millions were nearly gone. Most of the Republican field had aggressively auditioned for the former president’s seal of approval. Mr. Vance’s book pointed inward to explain the woes of his community: He blamed a personal “lack of agency” for drug abuse, welfare dependency and chaotic lives. Mr. Vance, 37, grew up in Middletown, Ohio, where a grandfather had moved from Kentucky for a steel mill job. His critics, including Republican rivals in Ohio, said he had turned himself inside-out to mimic Mr. Trump’s bellicosity in pursuit of votes. Mr. Vance first pitched Mr. Trump at a meeting at Mar-a-Lago brokered by Mr. Thiel. Donald Trump Jr. and the Fox News host Tucker Carlson also lobbied for Mr. Vance. In the years after J.D. Vance was born in 1984, the city hollowed out as blue-collar jobs left, opioids arrived, marriages dissolved and much of the industrial Midwest became “a hub of misery” for the white working class, he wrote in his memoir. He was raised largely by his maternal grandparents, particularly the grandmother he called Mamaw, who “loved the Lord,” “loved the F-word” and owned 19 handguns, he said on the campaign trail. On the campaign trail, Mr. Vance blamed corporations for shipping jobs to China and accused liberals of opening borders to cheap labor and opioid traffickers. Before the 2016 election, J.D. Vance called Donald J. Trump “ cultural heroin” and a demagogue who was “ leading the white working class to a very dark place.”

Vance, whom Trump endorsed for the seat, logged 28,324 votes from absentee ballots and early voting, along with a handful of precincts that reported. That was ...

Vance, whom Trump endorsed for the seat, logged 28,324 votes from absentee ballots and early voting, along with a handful of precincts that reported. Latest: Donald Trump endorsement boosts J.D. Vance to victory in Ohio Republican Senate primary CLEVELAND, Ohio – With more than 110,000 votes counted as of 8 p.m., author and venture capitalist J.D. Vance led his next closest competitor by around 2,800 votes in early returns for Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in Ohio, according to the secretary of state’s office.

Republican primary voters selected a nominee supported by the former president.

Every seat in the House and a third of the seats in the 100-member Senate are up for election. As of April 25, 46 of the 50 states had settled on the boundaries for 395 of 435 U.S. House districts. She ran with the endorsement of Portman but was running in a distant fifth place late Tuesday. Turner, who was criticized for blowing through her cash lead last year, raised less for the rematch and said in an interview that she focused on field organizing over ad buys. Mandel, in his third attempt to join the Senate, campaigned as a populist culture warrior. In mid-April, Trump endorsed Vance, a Republican who once styled himself as a Never Trumper and discussed the possibility of voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016. And opening up the floodgates to the border is one way to do it.” Vance once called Trump “another opioid” who represented “easy escape from the pain” that the country faced. The former president took a risk by backing Vance, and his support made a clear difference in the final stage of the race. Vance’s victory positions him as a rising star in the Republican Party. His compelling personal story, outlined in his best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” has won him favor from influential figures. In November’s general election, Vance will face Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan, who easily won his party’s nomination over Morgan Harper, a former attorney at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau who ran to Ryan’s left. Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R), who surged in popularity at the start of the pandemic, defeated former Republican congressman James B. Renacci, the AP projected.

He beat six other candidates in a race that set a record for the most money ever spent on an Ohio election.

This race was the first test in a month that will go a long way toward demonstrating the power Donald Trump's endorsement has in Republican politics. "People who are caught between the corrupt political class of the left and the right, they need a voice," Mr Vance said on Tuesday night. Nicholas Contras, a retired lawyer from Cincinnati who attended Mr Vance's celebration, said it was the candidate's anti-establishment status that won him over. Mr Vance trailed his more established political opponents for much of the primary campaign but saw a late surge following the former president's endorsement. Of the five top candidates, four fashioned themselves as disciples of the Trump political legacy. "They wanted to write the story that this campaign would be the death of Donald Trump's America-first agenda," he said.