Sheard Brown, the Democratic Party candidate, won the US Senate elections in the state of Ohio, defeating John Husted, the Republican Senator, and two years later, he was re-elected to the Senate. According to the Associated Press, Brown's victory in Ohio is an important achievement for Democrats in their efforts to regain the Senate majority in the last two years of Donald Trump's presidency. John Husted was appointed to the Senate after J. Dee Vance, former Senator from Ohio, became Vice President of the United States.