Far from the genteel style and relatively moderate politics Ohioans have seen for years from Republicans like George Voinovich, Mike DeWine and Rob Portman, Vance ran this year as a populist, right-wing culture warrior.
Republican Senate candidate JD Vance speaks to his supporters during an election night watch party, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in Cincinnati. COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Now just a step away from the U.S. Senate, J.D. Vance’s victory in last week’s Republican primary marks a sea change for the state GOP in the post-Trump era.
Shedding his former persona as an anti-Trump conservative commentator, Vance while on the campaign trail leaned into hot-button cultural fights over illegal immigration and racial and gender identity, describing the “childless cat ladies” and “groomers” he said dominated the Democratic Party. In doing so, he vowed to use the power of the government to punish “woke” elements in government, business and academia. And he embraced lies about the 2020 presidential election while inviting Georgia Rep.
Ohio native and University of Virginia political analyst Kyle Kondik said stylistically, Vance campaigned in a way that clearly was dramatically different than his predecessors, aligning more with the Republican Party’s modern, pugilistic “talk radio wing” that’s interested in “owning the libs” and generally being loud.
Besides Vance, several other Trumpy candidates won in Ohio’s primary election last week. Madison Gesiotto Gilbert, a Trump-backed candidate, finished on top in the GOP primary for Ohio’s 13th congressional district, as did J.R. Majewski, who became famous for painting Trump’s campaign logo on his lawn, along with symbols associated with the QAnon conspiracy movement, got the GOP nomination in Ohio’s 9th Congressional District after Trump shouted him out at his Ohio political rally.
“I find him to be a very measured guy. I think he’ll evaluate the pros and cons of every issue and decide where to go from there,” Kvamme said.
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