It's been a wild three-month race that's garnered international attention. There's the half-brother of Vice President JD Vance, a candidate who campaigned outside the city limits, two raucous debates and a question about a "ridiculous hat."

Cory Bowman, Vance’s half brother, is an evangelical pastor and coffee shop owner. Neither he nor fellow Republican challenger Brian Frank, a procurement professional, have held public office before but said they didn’t want to see the incumbent Democrat’s reelection bid go unchallenged in the heavily Democratic city.