{"id":108559,"date":"2025-01-17T21:03:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jon-husted-ohios-lieutenant-governor-tapped-to-replace-jd-vance-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2025-01-17T21:03:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T21:03:40","slug":"jon-husted-ohios-lieutenant-governor-tapped-to-replace-jd-vance-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jon-husted-ohios-lieutenant-governor-tapped-to-replace-jd-vance-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Husted, Ohio&#8217;s lieutenant governor, tapped to replace JD Vance in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2025-01-17\/Getty_JonHusted_011725.png\" alt><figcaption>Jacek Boczarski\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday announced his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, will replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n<p>Husted, 57, will serve until a special election in November 2026, the winner of which will complete the remainder of Vance&#8217;s term.<\/p>\n<p>Vance and President-elect Donald Trump will be sworn into office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DeWine said at a news conference that when he mulled over his appointment, he wanted &#8220;someone who knew Ohio&#8221; and a proven &#8220;workhorse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Serious times demand serious people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>DeWine praised Husted&#8217;s track record on economic development, which includes a commitment from Intel to invest more than $20 billion in manufacturing plants in the state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In my mind, my mission has always been clear: to ensure Ohioans have access to good jobs, quality job training and the opportunity to achieve their vision,&#8221; Husted said as he accepted the appointment on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacek Boczarski\/Anadolu via Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine on Friday announced his lieutenant governor, Jon Husted, will replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the U.S. Senate. Husted, 57, will serve until a special election in November 2026, the winner of which will complete the remainder of Vance&#8217;s<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/jon-husted-ohios-lieutenant-governor-tapped-to-replace-jd-vance-in-senate\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108559"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}