When GOP Rep. Steve Stivers announced he would quit Congress just a few months into his sixth term to take a job as the head of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce, he reduced House Republicans’ ranks by one, and created a vacancy in his Columbus-area congressional seat that will be filled via a special election this November.
Stivers is the latest of several business-friendly Republican politicians from Ohio, including Rep. Pat Tiberi and Sen. Rob Portman, to bow out of Washington in recent years, as former President Trump’s influence extends further down the ballot. A former chairman of the NRCC…
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