After his crushing Ohio gubernatorial loss, what’s next for Vivek Ramaswamy?

Ramaswamy would have been the third Indian American governor of a U.S. state after fellow Republicans Bobby Jindal and Nikki Haley.

Nov 06, 2026

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Vivek Ramaswamy’s loss to Amy Acton in the race for Ohio governor that saw him weaponize her childhood trauma in a widely rebuked ad now leaves his political future anything but certain.

By the numbers

Acton beat Ramaswamy in Tuesday’s race with 2,404,178 votes to 2,039,730 (52.3% to 44.4%), as per the Secretary o…

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