J.D. Vance

"I love this town, and I'm so grateful to be formed by it," Sen. J.D. Vance, Trump's VP pick, said Monday. "My life wasn't that different than a lot of people in Middletown."

Ohio's junior senator, J.D. Vance, is not a traditional vice presidential running mate, chosen for geographic balance or tapping into new voter group. He is there for his blind loyalty.

The last vice president from Ohio was Charles Fairbanks, a former Indiana governor who was born in Unionville Center, Ohio in 1852. Fairbanks served under President Theodore Roosevelt for four years from 1905 until 1909.

Former President Donald Trump put an end to months of guesswork Monday, cementing the distinct possibility the next vice president of the United States will be from Ohio.

A Trump-Vance ticket? Ohio’s junior senator is being floated as a possible running mate for Donald Trump. We’re talking about that and more during our Weekly Reporter Roundtable.

U.S. senators are working on a “minibus” appropriations package to fund the government. That package now includes an amendment prohibiting mask mandates on transit supported by Ohio's two senators.

Ohio’s U.S. Sens. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat, and J.D. Vance, a Republican, are divided on whether the federal government should continue to aid Ukraine.

Sen. J.D. Vance said the Environmental Protection Agency and Norfolk Southern need to pick up the pace in cleaning up East Palestine. Meanwhile, residents in Darlington Township are demanding the ability to provide input on how more than half a million dollars in community relief money is spent.

Ohio's J.D. Vance and Jim Jordan are among the leading defenders of the former president.

Nearly 10 months before the March 2024, Sen. J.D. Vance has endorsed wealthy Cleveland car dealer Bernie Moreno for Ohio's Republican U.S. Senate nomination.