After winning the Ohio Republican Senate primary on May 3, J.D. Vance addressed his supporters at a victory party in Cincinnati. Courtesy of Melissa Townsend
When Donald Trump talks, “America First” Republicans still listen.
That’s what J.D. Vance’s victory in the Ohio Republican U.S. Senate primary on May 3 showed in the first test of Trump’s influence in the 2022 midterm election cycle, Defending Democracy Together Director Bill Kristol says.
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