COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. Mike DeWine plans to announce his choice to succeed Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate on Friday, a decision that will reveal the power of Donald Trump’s continuing sway in the one-time swing state he’s now won three times.
The term-limited, politically pragmatic DeWine, 78, has sole discretion over the pick — but he has twice in recent weeks visited Mar-a-Lago, the president-elect’s de facto headquarters, where discussions on the selection presumably occurred.
Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was with him on one the trips. Husted had been positioning to run for governor in 2026, but his political future appeared suddenly
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