It was a foregone conclusion that Dave Joyce and Michael Rulli, the two Republican congressmen who represent the Mahoning Valley, were going to win reelection. The only questions were: By what margin and how much money would they raise? The quick answer to both is: a lot. Joyce, ...

Despite a lack of unity, Republicans in Trumbull County are riding a historic wave of success. Now the party is looking for stability and that may prove to be a bigger challenge than beating Democrats. The disharmony was evident during Tuesday’s central committee meeting to choose its ...

Remarkably, the Trumbull Republican Party – which can boast of gaining nearly complete control over the executive branch of county government and is making inroads in the judicial branch – is looking for a new chair for the third time in 30 months. If you count two interim chairs, the ...

Gov. Mike DeWine has a big decision to make: Who will he select to replace U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance who will resign to be sworn in as vice president of the United States? Vance’s political career has skyrocketed in a short time. After getting the coveted endorsement from Donald Trump before the ...

Mahoning County Republican Party Chairman Tom McCabe said that years ago he and Mark Munroe, a former party chairman, would routinely get calls from GOP leaders asking if it was possible for a statewide candidate to possibly do better than 35% in the county. “If we got 36% for a candidate, ...

Bernie Moreno, the Republican candidate for U.S. Senate, said, “If I win Mahoning County, the race is over, over. It’s over.” He’s right. Mahoning and Trumbull counties were two Democratic strongholds for 80 years until Republican Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Trump ...