Good morning. Welcome, Axios, today. It's Wednesday, the 4th of May. I'm Nile Bnooth.

Here's what we're watching today. Activists and lawmakers ready their plans on abortion,

plus distrust of Asian-Americans on the rise in the US. But first, today's one-bing thing.

Ohio delivers a new face for the Trump brand.

The results from the 2022 Ohio and Indian are primaries are in. And in a closely watched

Ohio Senate race, Hillbilly-Eligi-Author, JD Vance, has emerged from a crowded Republican field

as the GOP candidate. But how much evidence is this? A former President Trump's power

headed into the fall? Axios' Lachlan Marquet joins us now with what he's thinking about all of this.

Hey, Lachlan. Hey, how you doing? Lachlan, even though former President Trump

endorsed JD Vance pretty late in the game, how much is this outcome about the former President?

Yeah, it's hard to separate any Republican primary contest from Donald Trump right now.

He's the proverbial elephant in the room. So there have been questions about the enduring

power of his endorsement. And like you say, he got into this one late. But he will undoubtedly

be trumpeting it as a victory, as will his allies. And, you know, it's not just that his candidate,

JD Vance, prevailed, but also that the one candidate who is seen as sort of the standard

bearer for Republican Trump critics or, you know, anti-Trump or post-Trump people,

uh, State Senator Matt Dolan, looks to be fairing not particularly well,

a disappointing showing for him. What other impacts does JD Vance's win

have on the Republican party in its message right now?

Well, just ideologically, he's not in the mold of the traditional sort of post-Ragan,

Bush era, Romney era, Republican. He's a much more populist candidate to take a particularly

high profile recent event on the Warren, Ukraine. He broke in a very big way from a lot of Republicans,

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