Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine is expected to appoint his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, to the Senate seat recently vacated by Vice President-elect JD Vance.
Husted will serve at least through a 2026 special election to fill the remaining two years of the vice president-elect's term.The sources, who were granted anonymity to share details of private discussions, said the announcement is scheduled to come at a 1 p.m. Friday news conference that DeWine has called at the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus.
A spokesperson for DeWine declined to comment about the agenda for the news conference. A Husted spokesperson did not respond to a request for comment.Husted, who would serve at least through a 2026 special election to fill the remaining two years of Vance’s term, The decision comes on the heels of Vance’s resignation and follows a meeting that DeWine and Husted had last month 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 possibility of Husted being endorsed by Trump, was a topic of conversation, two sources briefed on the meeting told NBC News. But Trump made no commitments to Husted on that race or on the Senate vacancy, these sources said. after agreeing to lead the new Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency. But he had signaled a change of heart recently and met with DeWine about the appointment.
Others who were in the mix to succeed Vance included former state GOP chair Jane Timken, state Treasurer Robert Sprague, Rep. Mike Carey and former state Rep. Jay Edwards. Trump is a political force in Ohio, where he has won three times by comfortable margins. He and DeWine were on opposite sides of last year’s GOP primary for the state’s other Senate seat — a race in which DeWine backed a state lawmaker loathed by much of Trump world over Trump-endorsed businessman Bernie Moreno. DeWine and Husted have been allies since they ran together in 2018.
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