Gov. Mike DeWine must pick someone to replace Vice President-elect JD Vance, who resigned his Senate seat last week.

Ohio Governor Mike DeWine is tasked with appointing Vance's successor and hasn't said who he is considering for the role.

Former GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy reportedly has President-elect Donald J. Trump's backing for Ohio's Senate seat.

Billionaire DOGE co-chair is expected to announce his campaign after he was passed over to fill JD Vance’s seat

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.

Appointing Ramaswamy to the Senate would offer Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted a cleaner shot to succeed DeWine by eliminating a potential competitor.“DeWine isn’t incentivized to pick Ramaswamy for Senate, but Vivek is also the one roadblock to Husted,” this person said.

Ramaswamy, 39, who had an unsuccessful run in the Republican presidential race, is now a close confidant of President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President-elect J D Vance.

Current Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted was chosen by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine Friday afternoon to fill Vice President-elect J.D. Vance’s U.S. Senate seat. Husted, who has served as the 66th lieutenant governor of Ohio since 2019 and was Ohio’s 50th Secretary of State from 2011-2019,

Ohio entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will announce a bid ... to consider replacing Trump's running mate J.D. Vance in the U.S. Senate. However, Gov.

Donald J. Trump, a billionaire businessman whose meteoric rise in politics has repeatedly defied odds and reshaped the Republican Party, will be sworn in as the nation’s 47th president

Han Zheng, Chinese President Xi Jinping’s envoy at Trump’s Inauguration, discussed fentanyl, trade, and technology with Vance and Musk.