Cory Bowman, Vice President J.D. Vance’s younger half-brother, is running for mayor of Cincinnati as a Republican this November, he told The Enquirer.

Bowman, pastor of a nondenominational Christian church in the city for the past four years, needs to turn in a petition with 500 signatures by Feb. 20 to qualify, according to the report published Tuesday. None of the candidates so far have qualified, according to the report.

Eight people, including sitting Democrat Mayor Aftab Pureval, have pulled petitions to run. No Republican has run for Cincinnati mayor since 2009, according to the report, when sitting Rep. Brad Wenstrup, R-Ohio, lost by 16 points to a Democrat incumbent.

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