By CatholicVote | Created at 2025-01-11 00:36:44 | Updated at 2025-01-11 02:57:18
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CV NEWS FEED // Friday at midnight, Vice-President-elect JD Vance resigned from his office as senator – a position to which he was elected in 2022. Vance is set to take the oath of office as vice president January 20th – a week from this coming Monday.
“I hereby resign my office as a United States Senator from the State of Ohio, effective January 10, 2025,” Vance wrote in a Thursday letter addressed to Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. DeWine is now responsible for appointing Vance’s successor.
“As I prepare to assume my duties as Vice President of the United States, I would like to express that it has been a tremendous honor and privilege to serve the people of Ohio in the Senate over the past two years,” added Vance, a Catholic who converted to the faith in 2019.
JD Vance had officially resigned his office as Senator from the State of Ohio in preparation to assume his duties as the next Vice President of the United States of America.
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After submitting his resignation, the incoming vice president immediately received messages of support and gratitude from his former colleagues.
Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) that he will “really miss having” Vance “as a colleague.”
“Over the last two years, he’s become a dear friend and trusted ally,” Lee noted. “But the Senate’s loss is also the Senate’s gain, as he is about to become the president of the Senate—a job that belongs to the vice president.”
Vance replied on X that the “Feeling is mutual!”
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-WY, who was recently elected to his leadership post as the Senate’s second-highest-ranking Republican, wrote to Vance: “You’re a great soldier, a great Senator, a great friend, and you’ll be a great Vice President.”
“Thank you for dedicating your life to serving our country,” he added in his X post.
DeWine, a Catholic, is expected to appoint a replacement for Vance soon. Republican Lt. Gov. Jon Husted is widely considered to be the favorite to succeed Vance in the upper chamber.
As of Friday evening, leading prediction website Polymarket showed Husted with a 65% chance of becoming Ohio’s next Senator.
The only other person with more than a 2% chance was former Ohio Republican Party Chairwoman Jane Timken, whom Polymarket showed to have a 16% chance of receiving the appointment. Husted and Timken are both Catholic.
In the meantime, recently-elected Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-OH, who unseated his Democratic predecessor in November, is Ohio’s sole U.S. Senator.
