JD Vance to Appear With Ron DeSantis at Turning Point Action Rally in Ohio

A day after an Emerson College poll showed J.D. Vance with a three-percentage point lead over Rep. Tim Ryan in the Ohio U.S. Senate race to replace retiring Republican Sen. Rob Portman, the Donald Trump-endorsed candidate will join Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Aug. 19 at a rally in suburban Youngstown.

The event, titled “Unite and Win,” is one of the multiple appearances DeSantis is making on behalf of conservative Republican candidates and Turning Point Action.

Last week in Arizona, DeSantis stumped for Kari Lake, who won the Arizona GOP gubernatorial primary, and Blake Masters, the Republican nominee for U.S. Senate who will face Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly in November.

Before arriving in the Youngstown area for the evening event, DeSantis is scheduled to join Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano in Pittsburgh at 4:30 p.m. on Aug. 19.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, on July 22, 2022. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

“Gov. DeSantis is America’s governor and one of the most popular leaders in the country,” said Turning Point Action founder Charlie Kirk. “He has become the model for a new conservative movement that is willing to stand on principle and to actually fight on behalf of the values of his voters.”

Ohio is a state that Donald Trump won by eight percentage points in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections. Though Ohio has a Republican super-majority in the state legislature, and 12 of the 16 U.S. representatives are Republican, Democrat Sherrod Brown serves as the state’s other U.S. senator.

A former Ohio state senator, Ryan was first elected to the U.S. House in 2003. He mounted an unsuccessful presidential campaign in 2019 before he was elected to his 10th Congressional term.

Ryan decisively