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GOP senator reveals why Trump’s ‘complete and total endorsement’ will be crucial for his midterm race
Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted, who was sworn in as a Senator less than three months ago, spoke to Fox News Digital about receiving the «complete and total» endorsement of President Donald Trump to run again next year.
«When Governor DeWine appointed me to the U.S. Senate, I promised that if I took the job, that I would run to keep the job and then this week, President Trump really gave me a big boost when he announced on True Social that he was endorsing me, that I had his complete and total endorsement,» Husted, who was recently appointed to replace now-Vice President JD Vance in the U.S. Senate, told Fox News Digital.
«He said a lot of really kind things about me,» Husted continued. «And that was a great boost to the work that we’re going to do, because President Trump has been the decisive factor in the last two U.S. Senate races in Ohio.»
Husted must run again next year in a special election to earn the right to serve out the rest of Vance’s term, which runs through 2028.
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President Donald Trump, right, recently endorsed Ohio GOP Sen. Jon Husted’s campaign. (Fox/Getty)
Trump’s endorsement of Vance was widely considered the moment that put him over the top when he won the Ohio Senate seat in 2022. Trump’s endorsement was also a key factor in GOP Sen. Bernie Moreno’s toppling of longtime Dem. Sen. Sherrod Brown in November.
«President Trump has won Ohio three times, and I’ve been a candidate and won statewide four times,» Husted said. «So the combination of my work and President Trump’s endorsement is a big boost to my election prospects.»
Husted told Fox News Digital that «a lot’s happened» since he was sworn into office.
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Then-Ohio Lt. Gov. Jon Husted speaks during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee. (Getty Images)
«I’ve never worked in Washington, but this is really a record pace for the U.S. Senate in getting a president’s confirmations done,» Husted said. «We’ve also got the reconciliation package through both the House and the Senate, which is gonna set forth the process for getting President Trump’s agenda accomplished on preserving tax cuts for working families and small businesses, towards securing the border and deporting illegal immigrant criminals.»
«All of those things are important priorities of the presidents, and we’ve leaned in hard. We’ve spent sometimes into the weekends working to get that agenda accomplished, so President Trump and the Republican team could be successful. And that’s my introduction to the U.S. Senate, and I look forward to continuing to serve.»
It is unclear who Husted will be running against in next year’s election, although some have speculated that Brown, who was defeated by Moreno in November, could be interested.
Husted told Fox News Digital he is not «worried» about who his opponent will be in a race that will be closely watched given the 53-47 GOP majority in the Senate.
«I just take care of my own work and what that means is spending time with the people of the state of Ohio, going to Washington, getting my work done there, and delivering on the promise of the America first agenda which means securing our border, installing common sense values, making sure that men aren’t playing women’s sports, and invading their locker rooms,» Husted said.
«It’s also focused on the economy, doing Made in America, because you can’t do Made in America without Made in Ohio, because we are the heart of it all. We make the things that people need to live and thrive. And if you can put all those things together, a great campaign, work hard, deliver on the policies, that’s good politics and that will result in an election victory.»
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President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on board Air Force One on the way to Miami on Saturday, April 12, 2025. (Pool via AP)
Trump posted on Truth Social last week that Husted is a «wonderful man» that is «doing an incredible job.»
«Jon Husted has my Complete and Total Endorsement — HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!»
Husted spoke to Fox News Digital about what he hopes he and the GOP Senate will continue to accomplish in the next 100 days, which includes the president’s tax package, balancing the budget, restoring fiscal sanity and adding some «predictability» to the tax code.
«I also want to bring my own game to the Senate by showing people the work that we did in regulatory reform in Ohio,» Husted said.
«We eliminated 5 million of 17 million words in the Ohio regulatory code. I want to do that for America. I wanna use the AI tools that we used in Ohio to do regulatory reform at the nation’s capital. If you looked at the federal regulatory code, it would be 35 feet tall if it were a book, and it would take you over three years to read. I wanna cut that down. I wanna make the regulatory code make sense to people so that average Americans can actually use it and understand it. And that will unleash the American spirit of entrepreneurship, save people time and money.»
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Donald Trump has just had the best few weeks of his presidency.
No question. No argument. Period, end of paragraph.
It began with a bold gamble to send pilots to destroy Iran’s nuclear sites.
Then Trump managed to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Iran.
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Meanwhile, as Trump delayed his sky-high tariffs, the stock market hit record highs.
And he won a $16-million settlement from CBS’s parent company in his lawsuit against unfair editing by «60 Minutes.» That means he has now beaten two of the three broadcast networks, having won the same sum from ABC in a suit involving a crucial mistake by George Stephanopoulos.
And after days of pressure and arm-twisting, he managed to pass the Big Beautiful Bill.
President Trump’s been on a serious winning streak these past few weeks – culminating in the passage of his «big, beautiful bill.» (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
Make no mistake, the bill was always going to pass. What were Republicans going to say, never mind, we just tanked the president’s main legislative priority because we didn’t like this or that?
They didn’t need Democratic votes, under so-called reconciliation. And Trump controls the GOP. So its members fell into line.
Now the question is why, through this successful stretch, has Trump continued to draw such negative coverage?
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For starters, many in the media just can’t stand the guy. And this has largely been true since 2015. So anything that helps him must be wrong and must be denigrated.
Even the successful strike on Iran drew only scattered instances of grudging praise, when under any other president there would have been standing ovations.
The press immediately reframed this as a debate over whether the bunker-busting bombs had only set back Iran’s nuclear program by a few months.
The press’ scant praise over Trump’s Iran strikes quickly devolved into debate over how far they really set back Tehran’s nuclear program. (Planet Labs PBC via AP)
In fairness, that’s what the preliminary, classified Intel report leaked to the press said. And there’s nothing wrong with reporting that accurately, even though the assessment was made with low confidence.
But Trump wants reporters for CNN and the New York Times, which broke the story, fired over this, and with an FBI leak probe under way, says he may force journalists to reveal their confidential sources.
Once the White House could no longer blame anonymous sources, there is nothing wrong with quoting a government report – even if if turns out to be wrong.
The cease-fire between Israel and Iran was fine, but that quickly morphed into chatter about why Trump couldn’t pull off an end to the fighting between Israel and Hamas, a far more difficult task.
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Not to mention his freezing of weapons shipments to Ukraine, when despite his «very disappointing» call with Vladimir Putin, who promptly unleashed the biggest drone and missile attack against Kyiv since the illegal invasion of its sovereign neighbor.
Perhaps the president is learning what has been obvious to the rest of us: Putin has no conceivable interest in peace.
Everyone had to report the stock market surge, though not with the enthusiasm of the earlier plunge, and Trump yesterday announced that he’d hit Japan and South Korea, two allies, with a 25 percent hike in tariffs. But they don’t take effect till Aug. 1, so this could just be another negotiating tactic.
There was also next to zero coverage of Trump’s $16 million settlement with Paramount. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
There was almost no television coverage of Trump’s $16 million settlement with Paramount, which is nothing more than the news business protecting its own. If this had been any other kind of company – with the backstory that someone like Shari Redstone needed administration approval to sell the company and pocket $2 billion – the press would have gone haywire.
Now there’s a new twist. Fox’s Charlie Gasparino, writing for the New York Post, reported the Paramount settlement includes a side deal between Trump and for the buyer David Ellison, son of tech mogul Larry Ellison, for him to run $15 to $20 million in advertising supporting causes backed by the president.
And Trump confirmed it.
«We did a deal for about $16 million plus $16 million, or maybe more than that in advertising,» he told reporters.
Paramount denied any knowledge of the side deal.
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The president has also been drawn into a war of words with Elon Musk, calling him a «train wreck» who’s gone «off the rails» in forming a third party and raising the Epstein files again. Musk says the lack of an Epstein client list is the «final straw» – he had once apologized for raising it – and there’s no difference between the Republican and Democratic parties.
But there was one moment, in my view, that was a misstep by Trump.
The president had no need to negotiate with Democrats, who strongly opposed a tax cut tilted toward the wealthy while making deep cuts to Medicaid.
«Every Democrat in Congress voted against the ‘Big, Beautiful Bill…They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country.»
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I don’t believe the overwhelming majority of Democrats hate their country. And that was hardly a unifying message on July 4 weekend. Maybe many in the media hate him and he was just counterpunching. But he didn’t need to go there.
On the other hand, Donald Trump has been getting terrible coverage since 2015, and he’s clearly grown tired of it.
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Personas disfrutando de su tiempo libre de verano frente al río Sena, en París, Francia. Foto XinhuaBurlas en las redes
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Qué se sabe de las inundaciones que arrasaron Texas y dejaron más de 100 muertos, incluidos decenas de niños
Varias inundaciones catastróficas asolaron el centro de Texas durante el fin de semana festivo del 4 de julio y han causado la muerte de al menos 104 personas, entre ellas 28 niños. Hasta el lunes por la noche, 10 campistas y un consejero se encontraban entre los desaparecidos.
En el condado de Kerr, el río Guadalupe creció 6 metros en dos horas el viernes, lo que obligó la evacuación de varios campamentos de verano.
Cientos de equipos de rescate seguían buscando supervivientes el lunes, mientras gran parte del centro de Texas, incluida la región de Hill Country, estaba bajo alerta de inundación.
Esto es lo que sabemos sobre las inundaciones:
Hasta el lunes por la noche, al menos 104 personas habían muerto en el diluvio catastrófico. La mayoría, 84, estaban en el condado de Kerr, una parte de Texas Hill Country al noroeste de San Antonio.
Más de dos decenas de los fallecidos eran menores, entre ellos varias niñas de tan solo 8 años que habían estado en el Campamento Mystic, un lugar de verano a orillas del río Guadalupe con más de 750 asistentes. Dick Eastland, director durante muchos años del Campamento Mystic, también murió tras ser arrastrado, según reportes, mientras intentaba rescatar a las niñas de la crecida de las aguas.
Los funcionarios del condado de Kerr dijeron el lunes que aún no habían podido identificar a los 22 adultos y 10 niñas que aparecieron muertos tras las inundaciones.
Los equipos de emergencia han rescatado a más de 850 personas utilizando helicópteros, caballos, barcos y camiones. A un nadador de rescate de la Guardia Costera se le atribuye haber salvado a 165 personas del Campamento Mystic.
Pero al menos 10 niñas del campamento seguían desaparecidas el lunes por la noche, junto con más de una decena de personas en toda la zona.
Las autoridades dijeron que comenzarían los esfuerzos de recuperación, incluida la limpieza de escombros y la reapertura de carreteras. El domingo, el presidente Trump emitió una declaración de desastre mayor que dirige la ayuda federal a la zona.
En principio, Trump tiene previsto viajar a Texas el viernes, dijo el lunes Karoline Leavitt, secretaria de prensa de la Casa Blanca. La Casa Blanca estaba coordinando con las autoridades locales la visita de Trump para evitar perturbar los esfuerzos de recuperación, dijo Leavitt.
A primera hora de la tarde del jueves, el Servicio Meteorológico Nacional emitió una alerta de inundación general para el centro-sur de Texas, incluido el condado de Kerr. Cuando los ríos de la región empezaron a crecer el viernes por la mañana debido a las fuertes lluvias, el organismo aumentó el nivel de sus advertencias.
La alerta más urgente, enviada poco después de las 4 a. m., advertía de una “situación especialmente peligrosa” e instaba a los residentes y campistas a buscar terrenos más elevados. En unos 90 minutos, el río Guadalupe se había desbordado de un metro hasta 10 metros, según un indicador fluvial cerca de la ciudad de Comfort, Texas.
El aguacero continuó durante el fin de semana, mientras los equipos de respuesta de emergencia buscaban sobrevivientes.
Las inundaciones son una amenaza histórica en el centro de Texas, una zona a la que a menudo se denomina el “callejón de las inundaciones repentinas”, y la cuenca del río Guadalupe en particular es una de las regiones más peligrosas para este tipo de fenómeno. El cambio climático también ha intensificado y aumentado la frecuencia del tiempo extremo.
Entonces, ¿por qué el Servicio Meteorológico no envió antes su alerta urgente? Algunos expertos afirman que la escasez de personal de la agencia puede haber dificultado la capacidad de los meteorólogos para coordinar las respuestas con las oficinas locales de gestión de emergencias.
El senador Chuck Schumer, el principal demócrata del Senado estadounidense, pidió el lunes al inspector general en funciones del Departamento de Comercio que investigara si los recortes y la escasez de personal del Servicio Meteorológico habían contribuido al elevado número de víctimas mortales en Texas.
Por otra parte, los funcionarios del condado de Kerr contemplaron en su día la posibilidad de instalar un sistema de alerta de inundaciones a lo largo del río Guadalupe, pero finalmente rechazaron la idea por considerarla demasiado cara. Por eso, cuando la catastrófica crecida de las aguas se produjo el fin de semana, no hubo sirenas ni monitores de inundación temprana. Las alertas de texto llegaron tarde para algunos residentes y otros las desestimaron o no las vieron.
Aunque las autoridades no han hecho pública la lista completa de víctimas, algunas de ellas han sido identificadas por sus familiares.
Entre las víctimas se encuentran Jeff Wilson, profesor de secundaria de los suburbios de Houston desde hace muchos años, que estaba acampado cerca del río Guadalupe con su esposa; Tanya Burwick, de 62 años, que conducía hacia su trabajo en San Angelo cuando su vehículo quedó atrapado por la crecida de las aguas; y Blair y Brooke Harber, dos jóvenes hermanas que se alojaban en una cabaña junto al Guadalupe cuando la caseta fue arrastrada por las aguas.
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