During his 32-day midterm tour across the nation, the president is including two stops in Ohio before the midterm elections on Nov. 3. His first stop was this past Saturday in Vandalia Ohio, where he rallied voters to support U.S. Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidate for governor.
After winning Ohio in 2016 and in 2024, President Trump told the rally to pretend his name is on the ballot Nov. 3.
“When I run, we win,” he told rallygoers.
Trump's second visit to Ohio is scheduled for Oct. 12 in Youngstown.
John Stover, president of Ohio Value Voters, told American Family News the rally was a huge success and will help Husted and Ramaswamy in coming weeks.
“I'm certainly hopeful the American people don't have that short of a memory,” he said, “to realize just what we were under the Democrat leadership in the House and Senate, and having Joe Biden as our president."
Sen. Husted was Ohio’s lieutenant governor when Gov. Mike DeWine appointed him to replace Vice President J.D. Vance in the Senate. Now a freshman senator, Husted is facing a credible Democrat opponent, Sherrod Brown. Brown is a former three-term U.S. senator who lost his re-election bid in 2024 to Bernie Moreno.
In the race for Ohio governor, Gov. DeWine is term-limited which set up the November election between Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton.
Regarding that race for governor, Stover said Acton is refusing to debate Ramaswamy over her role as director of the Ohio Department of Health during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“She knows she has a record that is not going to sit well with the Ohio voters,” he insisted. “She knows that. She can't handle it. And that's why she does not want to debate him."
According to a Sept. 9 Washington Examiner article, former health department employees described Acton as an erratic and difficult boss who was prone to emotional outbursts. The article quoted five current and former state employees who said she struggled to handle that job, and was once found curled into a ball crying before a press conference.
Stover, who read the Examiner story, said Acton was described in the article as a woman “not fit to serve” as governor.
