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Former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, speaks during a U.S. Senate debate with Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, on Oct. 26, 2018. (AP Photo | Gary Landers, Pool)
COLUMBUS (AP) A former four-term congressman from Northeast Ohio plans to take on Gov. Mike DeWine in next year’s Republican primary.
Former U.S. Rep. Jim Renacci, 62, a businessman and former Wadsworth mayor who served in Congress from 2011 to 2019, announced his bid for the GOP nomination Wednesday on WTAM 1100 and on his website.
He is the first serious Republican challenger to the expected re-election bid of DeWine, a former state attorney general, U.S. senator and lieutenant governor. Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley is running as a Democrat.