The Republican nomination for Senate in Ohio is heating up, with candidates Mike Gibbons and J.D. Vance hitting the road for competing statewide campaign swings.

Gibbons launched a statewide bus tour in the first week of the year, visiting 14 communities in a custom blue and yellow bus emblazoned with “Gibbons U.S. Senate.” On Tuesday, Gibbons was in Dublin, near the state capital of Columbus in central Ohio, and on Friday, he is scheduled to be in Maineville, a village northeast of Cincinnati, for a rally with Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. Gibbons plans to continue crisscrossing Ohio at least through mid-February.