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Primary naights of the 2022 campaign season. a big victory for j.d. vance. this is the replace to replace rob portman, he was running against a field of five other major candidates. and emanagered as the winner at the end thanks to the endorsement from former president donald trump, it has been viewed as the former president's strength inside the republican party and one of the first people j.d. vance thanked tonight was donald trump. >> i have to absolutely thank the 45th, the president of the united states, donald trump, ladies and gentlemen, one for giving us an example could be. remember 2...

Holdouts here. so bringing those on board will be important. if there are exemptions, extensions, that will weaken the impact that the sanctions are supposed to have. jim? >> and politics supreme here, right? remembering hungary's ties to the putin regime prior to the invasion. do those still survive in some way? anna stewart, thanks so much. politics now, former president trump's endorsement power holding strong so far. at least in big primaries in ohio and indiana last night. ohio, the trump-backed candidate j.d. vance won the gop primary for senate in the first big midterm test of trump's...

Surprise that he offered his praise for the former president last night during his victory speech. take a listen. >> i have absolutely got to thank the 45th, the president of the united states, donald j. trump. they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of donald trump's america first agenda. ladies and gentlemen, it ain't the death of the america first agenda. >> now, he has other big tests ahead, donald trump. this upcoming tuesday in west virginia, he's trying to take an incumbent gop congressman there, and a week beyond that it will be dr. oz that he endorsed in the...

Endorsement still carries considerable weight with at least a plurality of gop voters. jd vance, someone who once called trump a demagog and even privately compared him to hitler, apologized, renounced his previous positions, pursued the endorsement of the former president, got it, and last night won. as jeff zeleny reports, even the former president is relieved by last night's results. >> i have absolutely got to thank the 45th, the president of the united states, donald j. trump. >> the first big bet of the campaign season paid off for donald trump with jd vance crediting a come from behind ...

Candidate j.d. vance in ohio. you see the numbers there. vance is projected to be the winner in the hotly contested republican senate primary. cnn projects he has won that race and the race to replace retiring ohio senator rob portman. vance probably does not win this contest without the trump endorsement. and the former president was one of the first people that vance thanked. >> i have absolutely got to thank the 45th, the president of the united states, donald j. trump, ladies and gentlemen. they wanted to write a story that this campaign would be the death of donald trump's america first a...