Two new senators were sworn in on Tuesday to replace new Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Vice President JD Vance.

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.

Columbus-area Republican Jon Husted on Tuesday resigned from his post as ... after weeks of deliberating that involved multiple visits to Trump’s home in Florida. When he picked Husted, he said he wanted someone with a firm grasp of Ohio’s complexity ...

Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted has been appointed to fill the Ohio U.S. Senate seat that was vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.

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.

Vice President JD Vance swears in Ohio's Jon Husted and Florida's Ashley Moody to take the seats vacated by himself and Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Vice President JD Vance swears in Ohio's Jon ...

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.

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

Mike DeWine is expected to appoint his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to the Senate seat recently vacated ... with President-elect Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Husted’s interest in succeeding DeWine as governor in 2026, and the ...

Jon Husted to replace Vance ... and passion and tenacity as a United States senator that I have brought as Florida's Attorney General," Moody said after accepting DeSantis's appointment.

Columbus-area Republican Jon Husted on Tuesday resigned from ... that involved multiple visits to Trump’s home in Florida. When he picked Husted, he said he wanted someone with a firm grasp ...

Gov. Mike DeWine announced his own Lt. Gov. Jon Husted as the next senator from Ohio, passing over entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy. “Jon Husted will be right at home in the United States Senate, and he’ll be at home on day one,” DeWine said Friday in a press conference at the statehouse in Columbus.