Vice President JD Vance of Ohio backs Vivek Ramaswamy amid attack ad blowback
Vance made an unverified claim that ads call Ramaswamy a murderer, as the campaign spends $4 million on an ad featuring Acton's estranged mother.
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Ohio groups take measures to protect voting during November midterm election
Common Cause Ohio and the NAACP are deploying monitors, lawyers and hotlines after Trump floated sending federal agents to polling places this year.
Husted championed Ohio’s data center boom — and defended the billions in tax breaks that fueled it
Newly surfaced recordings capture Jon Husted praising data centers as a pipeline of jobs and economic growth. His years of support for the industry and its tax incentives preceded a $1.6 billion annual tax-break bill for Ohio and mounting concerns about electricity prices.
Ramaswamy confirms campaign produced attack ad featuring Acton’s estranged mother, launches $4 million blitz
Ramaswamy's campaign confirmed producing the video featuring Amy Acton's mother, who stood by the man charged with raping her daughter at age 12. The campaign is spending millions to promote it despite newly reported court records and condemnation from prominent Republicans.
Gary Click calls Acton’s estranged mother ‘caring’ after she stood by man charged with raping her daughter
The former Fremont pastor, himself investigated last year over separate child sex abuse allegations that police closed without charges, defended the mother attacking Amy Acton’s childhood history. When confronted with the rape case against her husband, Click accused a journalist of a “bait and switch.”
Amy Acton’s mother defended husband accused of raping her daughter at 12. Now she’s in a pro-Ramaswamy attack ad.
Acton’s brother is speaking out after their estranged mother appeared in a political attack accusing his sister of lying about her childhood. He says their mother remained married to the man who sexually abused Acton even after both children were removed from their custody.
Outside groups pour hundreds of millions into Ohio races for governor, U.S. Senate
Republican-aligned super PACs outspend Democrats roughly 2.5 to 1 in the governor's race, while Ohio's Senate contest tops $422 million, AdImpact reports.
Vivek Ramaswamy appears to have violated New York state bar registration rules
Ohio's Republican nominee for governor reportedly listed a West Chester address as his home in a July 2026 New York attorney filing, five years after moving to Columbus and registering to vote there. The conflicting addresses raise potential violations of New York attorney-registration requirements or Ohio voter-residency laws.
GOP-linked super PAC spends $1.58 million boosting socialist, attacking Sherrod Brown
A newly formed political committee reported another $753,000 in advertising spending as it promotes an Ohio Senate candidate who says its campaign materials falsely impersonate him. The money trail leads to Republican consultants tied to Trump and Bernie Moreno.
Husted responds to woman beaten by Trump supporters: ‘There are consequences’ for protesting
Ohio's Republican senator responded to the beating of a woman at a Trump rally held to support his campaign by warning about the consequences of political protest. Five weeks earlier, he declared that political violence "must never be tolerated."
Ramaswamy’s companies used H-1B visas 88 times. Now executives tied to foreign-worker firms are funding his Ohio campaign.
Campaign filings show an Infinite Computer Solutions executive gave nearly $12,000, while Yass and Musk poured $35 million into a pro-Ramaswamy super PAC.
Ramaswamy-linked drug crashes wiped millions from public pension investments, including Ohio teachers’ fund
An examination of federal securities filings traces nearly $7.5 million in stock-price declines across public retirement funds invested in Axovant and Immunovant. Ohio's teachers' pension held shares in both.
Gary Click says he might have voted for Democrat Aaron Jones, calls Republican primary challenger ‘a nut’
In a recorded conversation obtained by TiffinOhio.net, the three-term Republican lawmaker disparaged Eric Watson, a first-time candidate who nearly defeated him in May despite a substantial fundraising disadvantage.
The next act for the No Kings movement: Early voting in the midterms
More than 2,500 events in all 50 states will pair with efforts from Bishop William Barber and the ACLU, while the RNC accuses Democrats of manipulating maps.
Ohio early vote way up compared to 2022 but absentee ballot requests are down
A political scientist says Trump's years of attacks on mail voting, not his recent reversal, explain the drop as Democrats and independents lead early returns.
Jon Husted backed utilities’ land-seizure powers now threatening Ohio farms for data centers
A 2022 Ohio Supreme Court case shows AEP already invoked the 2007 law to claim presumptions favoring condemnation, with a hearing on new Piketon-area lines set for October 27.
Ramaswamy campaign puts convicted child sex offender in TV ad, removes him after reporters expose past
His sexual predator registry photo appears to show the same patriotic shirt Ramaswamy complimented at a county fair before the ad was produced.
Derek Merrin promises ‘Made in Ohio’ jobs while handing out Bangladesh-made campaign shirts
When pressed on the Bangladesh-made shirts, Merrin deflected by calling Kaptur pro-China and pro-Mexico, despite her votes against NAFTA and China trade relations.
Ramaswamy loans campaign $5 million more as Acton outpaces him with donors
Despite trailing in donor fundraising for three straight months, Ramaswamy has now sunk more than $36 million of his own money into the governor's race.
Ohio lawmakers introduce bills to add age limits, regulate electric bikes and electric scooters
Sponsors cite Akron Children's Hospital already topping its 2025 e-bike injury total by July and a fatal Columbus crash as lawmakers push a spring deadline.
