{"id":27308,"date":"2025-01-10T10:00:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2025\/01\/10\/vance-to-resign-from-us-senate-ahead-of-his-inauguration-as-vice-president\/"},"modified":"2025-01-10T10:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T15:00:05","slug":"vance-to-resign-from-us-senate-ahead-of-his-inauguration-as-vice-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2025\/01\/10\/vance-to-resign-from-us-senate-ahead-of-his-inauguration-as-vice-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance to resign from US Senate ahead of his inauguration\u00a0as vice president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>washington \u2014\u00a0Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance said Thursday that he would resign from his U.S. Senate seat from Ohio at midnight ahead of his inauguration later this month. President-elect Donald Trump and Vance defeated the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in the Nov. 5 U.S. election. Vance&#8217;s Senate seat will be filled by a person appointed by Ohio Republican Governor Mike DeWine. The replacement will serve until a special election is held in November 2026. The winner of that election will finish the remainder of Vance&#8217;s Senate term, which ends in January 2029. In his resignation letter to the Ohio governor, Vance wrote that &#8220;it has been a tremendous honor and privilege to serve the people of Ohio in the Senate over the past two years.&#8221; Republicans won a narrow majority in both the Senate and the House of Representatives in the November elections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>washington \u2014\u00a0Republican Vice President-elect JD Vance said Thursday that he would resign from his U.S. Senate seat from Ohio at midnight ahead of his inauguration later this month. President-elect Donald Trump and Vance defeated the Democratic presidential candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris, and her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, in the Nov. 5 U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":27309,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27308\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}