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Republican Ohio Senate candidate J.D. Vance has won Ohio’s Senate election over Democratic opponent Tim Ryan, DecisionDeskHQ projects.
Decision Desk made the projection at 11:03 p.m. EST.
Polls leading up to the election showed Vance with a razor-thin edge over Ryan. Vance pulled ahead of his opponent after the candidates faced each other in a pair of debates last month.
The senator-elect will succeed retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, who announced last year that he would not seek a third term.
Vance, a venture capitalist who first became known through his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” ran on a platform of being an outsider who “knows what it’s like to live in a left-behind community” and will fight for normal Americans.
Vance, who was endorsed by former President Trump in April, ran on a conservative platform that included reining in spending to slow inflation, ending abortion, gaining energy independence, restoring manufacturing jobs in Ohio, finishing the southern border wall, breaking up big tech companies, combating the opioid epidemic, and ensuring election integrity.
Ryan, who represents the Buckeye State’s 13th Congressional District, has served in the House of Representatives since 2003.
