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Many of these candidates are younger and likely to make it to Congress — and if more of them win elsewhere this year, this cycle could represent something of a bridge to Trumpism, even post-Trump. They are examples of the potentially lasting effects of how Trump has changed GOP politics.

With only about three weeks to go before Tuesday's election, Donald Trump pulled J.D. Vance of Middletown out of the middle of the pack of GOP senate candidates and dragged him across the finish line.

The former president endorsed Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose ahead of Ohio's Tuesday primaries. LaRose told NPR in January that candidates not conceding was a "really dangerous thing."

Their mutual friend, billionaire Peter Thiel, might have had something to do with it.

Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance got the announcement that most of his rivals had been seeking — an endorsement from former President Donald Trump. But some conservatives say they won’t vote for Vance and are now threatening they won’t back Trump either.

Trump made the announcement in a written statement Friday afternoon. He emphasized the importance for Republicans to win in November's midterm elections saying it would deliver a "devastating rebuke" of President Joe Biden's time in office. He also acknowledged the previous comments and criticisms Vance had made about him.

Former President Donald Trump is coming to Delaware County for a rally later this month. Will he endorse a candidate in Ohio's bare-knuckled GOP Senate primary?

For years, Mitch McConnell converted Donald Trump's heat to power the conservative agenda. Now he needs to again harness that insurgent energy, a challenge when Trump's heat is directed at him.

The former president blasted Republicans who have crossed him and kept up repeated election lies in an NPR interview. "The facts show that it was President Biden who won fair and square," said Trey Grayson, who used to run elections as the Republican secretary of state in Kentucky. "It wasn't rigged."

On Cincinnati Edition Wednesday, the Political Junkie Ken Rudin is with us for the full hour to talk all things national politics.