The Ohio primary shows that Trump still has a tight hold on the Republican party | Lloyd Green

JD Vance once pondered if Trump was the next Hitler. Then he kissed Trump's ring - and has been rewarded with the Ohio Republican Senate nomination

On Tuesday, JD Vance won Ohio's Republican nomination for US Senate. After lagging in the polls for months, Vance hit the tape first after garnering Donald Trump's endorsement. Although Vance received under a third of votes cast, more than half of Buckeye state Republicans voted for a candidate who made his personal devotion to Trump a political cornerstone. The Republican party still belongs to 45th president.

By contrast, Matt Dolan, a state senator whose family owns the Cleveland Guardians, the area's Major League Baseball team, finished third with less than a quarter of the vote. Dolan publicly accepted the outcome of the 2020 election. He is the latest in a series of cautionary tales.

Lloyd Green is an attorney in New York. He was opposition research counsel to George HW Bush's 1988 campaign and served in the Department of Justice from 1990 to 1992