2028 United States Senate election in Ohio (Mikadar's Scenario)

The 2028 United States Senate election in Ohio was held on November 7, 2028, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Ohio, concurrently with the 2028 U.S. presidential election, as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican Senator J. D. Vance defeated Democratic U.S. Representative Emilia Sykes for a second term in office.

In the Republican primary, Vance was easily re-nominated with only marginal opposition. Sykes, who represented Ohio's 13th district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2023 to 2025 and again from 2027 to 2029, emerged victorious out of competitive Democratic primary.

Running on a economically populist platform manifested by sponsoring Industry Protection and Development Act of 2025 as well as promise to move forward with outlawing pornography in the country, Vance won re-election by 23 points, earning highest raw vote total in state history, outperforming Ron DeSantis in presidential race by 5 percentage points. On the Democratic side, Sykes based her campaign on agressive attacks on Vance for his anti-abortion and isolationist views, which according to many Analysts, combined with low DSCC funding, cost her many of moderate voters.