Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine named Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to fill Vice-President-elect JD Vance’s U.S. Senate seat in a Jan. 17 announcement.
Vance resigned from his Senate seat earlier this month in preparation for joining President-elect Donald Trump as vice president.
DeWine, who served two terms in the U.S. Senate, was tasked by state law to select his replacement.
“I think I have a pretty good idea of what it takes to succeed in the United States Senate,” DeWine said in a Jan. 17 press conference.
“The process we went through took a while because of the gravity of this decision. I interviewed a large number of people. There were many people who I considered very qualified to serve in the United States Senate to represent the state, but I came to the conclusion that the person who is best suited to be the United States senator is a person who has been close to me for the last six years.”…