In droves for trump-backed candidates in many cases. brian: i mean the guy, i think everybody trump blessed won. mark meredith joins us now from cincinnati with the details. hey, mark. brian, ainsley and steve. good morning to you guys. overnight j.d. vance declared victory over six other republican hopefuls. this was a bruising primary in the buckeye state. and for vance, this is also a surprising win because not that long ago he was flailing in the polls until he earned the endorsement of former president trump back in mid april. vance was considered a household name but he was not having the money and the financial backing that a lot of the other candidates had early on. that all changed after that endorsement. it was also a little bit of a surprising endorsement it wasn t that long ago that vance was openly critical of trump as well as his agenda. but last night after the results came, in vance was thanking both the president as well as the president s supporters and pledged to