Ohio Sen. Michael Rulli speaks with colleagues at the Ohio State House Senate Chambers in Columbus, Ohio, on February 28.
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Michael Rulli will win the Republican primaries for the regular election and the special election in Ohio’s 6th Congressional District, CNN projects, putting the state senator in pole position to succeed former GOP Rep. Bill Johnson.
Earlier this year, Johnson vacated the deep-red seat, which stretches along Ohio’s eastern border with West Virginia and Pennsylvania, to take a job as president of Youngstown State University.
