Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, a strong ally of JD Vance, has lost the race for Ohio governor to Democrat Amy Acton, handing Democrats a state Trump carried by about 11 points two years ago.
Acton won 50.7 percent compared to Ramaswamy’s 46 percent with 85 percent of the vote counted, according to the Associated Press.
Acton becomes the first woman elected governor of Ohio and its first Jewish governor. Republican Nancy Hollister briefly served as governor by succession, from December 1998 to early January 1999.
She becomes the first Democrat to win the Ohio governorship since 2006.
Acton, a physician, ran Ohio’s Department of Health under Republican
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