Vance: “We just got a great chance to govern, and I promise to try to use it. To all my friends who are going to be at the Statehouse and in the state capitol, we need better leadership in Washington, and that’s what I promise to fight for every day.”
But even Glenn, a national hero as the first American to orbit the Earth, ran for the office twice before eventually winning.
Vance won a crowded and nasty Republican primary in May, defeating five other major candidates. He did so with a major boost from Trump, who gave him a late endorsement, and with $15 million he got from Peter Thiel, the billionaire tech investor for whom Vance used to work. But even in defeat, Ryan could get credit for forcing national Republicans to spend tens of millions of dollars defending a Republican-held seat that wasn’t expected to be competitive. While votes are still being counted, he looks likely to outrun Nan Whaley, the Democratic candidate for governor, by around 10 percentage points.
Ryan used his fundraising advantage to flood TV airwaves over the summer, attempting to brand himself as a political independent and define Vance as a phony. On the Republican side, the race likely is going to get caught up in the party’s internal power struggle between McConnell and Trump.
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