Vivek Ramaswamy pushed Ohio Republicans to put photo ID for voters into the state constitution, and it's on the November ballot. In 2024, Rhode Island election officials found dead residents' names on the nomination papers his presidential campaign submitted, and his campaign confirmed a hired signature-gatherer had forged them on purpose.
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Ramaswamy's ad has Acton's estranged mother call her a liar about her childhood. Court records show the mother's husband was charged with raping Acton and the children were taken from them. After the backlash, Ramaswamy put $4 million behind it.
Vivek Ramaswamy says that as governor he would change Ohio law so 18- to 20-year-olds can buy handguns. He also dismisses the red flag laws and background checks most gun owners support, in a state where guns were the leading cause of death for kids in 2024.
Konstantin Sokolov gave to Trump's White House ballroom days before his company asked Treasury for a license to get around Russia sanctions. He got it in 10 weeks, used it to buy a copper mine from a sanctioned Russian bank, and was put in charge of $201 million in State Department money. FEC records show he also gave to committees raising money for Susan Collins, Pete Ricketts, Dan Sullivan, Vivek Ramaswamy and six more Republicans on this site.
Billionaire Glenn Dubin, whom an Epstein accuser named under oath, gave $6,600 to Vivek Ramaswamy's presidential campaign and $100,000 to the super PAC backing it. When Fox News reported it, Ramaswamy's campaign said it would give away the $6,600. The super PAC kept the $100,000 — and when it shut down, it sent its last $116,816 to the committee that is now V-PAC, the super PAC backing Ramaswamy for Ohio governor.
Vivek Ramaswamy's new ad uses a prostate-cancer patient to defend his drug-company record. Cleveland.com's fact-check found three claims in it are lies: the patient is talking about a different drug than the one Acton criticized, Big Pharma didn't pass on it, and Ramaswamy's company sold out before it ever reached patients.
V-PAC, the $42 million super PAC funded mostly by billionaires to elect Vivek Ramaswamy, mailed Ohio voters a flyer whose lead claim about Amy Acton is false. Its spokesman called it a 'typo.'
Ramaswamy appeared at Liberty Valley Church in Northfield last December and again in May, alongside a pastor who compared COVID rules to Nazi Germany and whose members protested outside a Jewish lawmaker's home. The Ohio Jewish Caucus says he 'should not remain silent.'
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Max Miller is under House Ethics investigation for domestic violence, after his ex-wife accused him of throwing scalding water on her, putting a gun to her head, and breaking their toddler's collarbone.
In December 2019, as his company closed a $3 billion deal, Vivek Ramaswamy bought a $420,000 house in West Chester Township and registered to vote in Ohio. Tax experts told Forbes the timing likely saved him about $12 million. Now he wants to abolish Ohio's capital gains tax.
Strive, the firm Ramaswamy co-founded in Columbus, moved its headquarters to Dallas. He told a Teamsters podcast he was 'just a shareholder.' An August 2025 SEC filing says he and an affiliated trust controlled all of Strive's Class A voting stock.
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Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican running for governor of Ohio, was caught on tape saying he doesn't like the existence of Social Security and Medicaid payments.
A newly surfaced clip shows the Republican nominee for Ohio governor saying he doesn't 'like the existence' of Social Security and Medicaid payments. It fits a record: he agreed Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes and has pitched investing Social Security money in the stock market.
Updated October 15: David Rouzer skipped a UNC Wilmington forum and Russell Fry backed out of an NAACP forum six hours before it started; Tom Cotton's only agreed debate fell through. October 12: Keith Self, asked on national TV whether he would debate, called the district 'my seat.' October 10: Cliff Bentz declined four debate invitations because accepting would make his opponent look 'credible,' Jim Pillen called debates 'theater,' and Julie Fedorchak pulled out of North Dakota's public TV debate. Earlier: Jeff Hurd declined televised debate invitations and agreed to one 30-minute session before a friendly audience instead. John McGuire says he'll debate when his opponent apologizes for raising a BlackRock sale the disclosure records in his wife's retirement account. They join fourteen Republicans we have already documented ducking the one event they can't script.
Ramaswamy's own Ohio ethics filing lists stock in the companies that make the chips, run the servers and own the land behind the data center boom. As governor he'd appoint the boards that hand out their tax breaks and approve their power plants. Asked whether he'd sell, he didn't answer.
Ramaswamy said it was legitimate to ask whether federal agents were aboard the 9/11 planes, and admitted he had no evidence. When the quote made news he said it was wrong. CNN's fact-checker reviewed the audio and found the only thing left out was a five-word fragment.
Casey Putsch spent the Republican primary saying 'Vivek won't debate me.' There was no GOP gubernatorial debate. The Libertarian nominee says he is still waiting for a commitment too.
The Sports Betting Alliance gave $650,000 to the super PAC electing Ramaswamy. Two bills to legalize online casino gambling are pending in Columbus. A reporter asked him directly. He would not answer.
Judge Julien Xavier Neals refused on Aug. 25 to dismiss Joyce Rosely's whistleblower claim against Ramaswamy personally. She says he demanded she violate securities laws, heard her objections, and helped fire her. A second former Strive employee alleged the same thing.
Ramaswamy is running for Ohio governor on taking the state's school-choice programs "to the next level." His official biography credits a teacher at his "Greater Cincinnati public school" and reduces St. Xavier — the private Jesuit school he attended grades nine through twelve — to "his Cincinnati high school."
Leaked audio published August 26 catches Ohio's Republican nominee for governor backing Miller 'up and down the ticket' — three weeks after two Republican senators told him to resign, and days after Miller's own former father-in-law said he should not serve in the House.
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Campaign finance records show Ramaswamy paid nearly $560,000 to V Leasing LLC, whose listed address is a house he owns. A nonprofit watchdog says that if he reimburses himself for the $25 million he loaned his campaign, he will be using donors' money to pay himself.
Justin Salsburey pleaded guilty August 13 to a fentanyl and meth conspiracy run out of a Bellefontaine house. Ramaswamy's campaign kept paying his security firm for three weeks after the arrest — including $2,000 four days after publicly cutting ties.
Vivek Ramaswamy bought a discarded Alzheimer's drug for $5 million, put his mother on the payroll to reanalyze the failed trial data, and raised $315 million. Twenty days before the drug failed again, SoftBank put $1.1 billion of new equity into the parent company. A California teachers' pension fund lost more than $1 million.
Ramaswamy holds a $71 million stake in Strive, a leveraged bitcoin company that lost $257.6 million last quarter. He calls House Bill 18 'thoughtful & powerful' — and its pension language has no cap at all. Ohio's five retirement systems hold $284 billion.
A super PAC backing Vivek Ramaswamy spent $8.2 million in one month attacking his opponent. Five out-of-state donors put up 88 cents of every dollar — and $10 million of the Ohio spending shows up in the state's public database with the purpose field left blank.
Cleveland.com says both of his opponents had already released platforms while Ramaswamy relied on attack ads — until it refused to stop asking. He has never held elected office.
Ohio's electric bills are up 53% since 2021. Ramaswamy says data centers will make power free for nearby homes — a promise that runs entirely through regulators the governor appoints. Energy PACs gave him $97,468 this year, and the money roughly doubled after a watchdog flagged it.
Equality Ohio's 2026 scorecard rates Ramaswamy as having a 'poor record and likely to harm LGBTQ+ civil rights.' His record includes calling transgender identity a 'mental health disorder' and touting endorsements from the authors of Ohio's anti-trans laws.
A new analysis puts a number on Ramaswamy's promise to roll property taxes back to pre-pandemic levels: $4 billion a year in his first budget, $6.6 billion a year in his second. His plan to pay for it is growing Ohio's population by 26%.
Ramaswamy singled out four Ohio public universities as struggling and said the state shouldn't fund 'subpar' schools. After bipartisan backlash, he's pretending he never said it.
Vivek Ramaswamy is spending $10 million on ads blaming Amy Acton for Ohio's COVID rules. Cleveland.com found they overstate her part in calling off the 2020 primary — and skip his own pandemic advocacy entirely.
DOGE's charter expired on July 4, 2026. It promised $2 trillion in savings, delivered chaos and a claimed $215 billion, and its co-founder Vivek Ramaswamy bailed early — to run for Governor of Ohio.
Asked point-blank by the Wall Street Journal if he'd push so-called 'right-to-work' in Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy dodged — and wouldn't say no to a policy that lowers wages and weakens unions.
Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor has hidden more than half a million dollars in spending behind lump-sum monthly credit card payments — in a state where Republicans just gutted the independent watchdog.
Ramaswamy wants to wipe out Ohio's capital gains tax. Applied to the gains on his own released tax returns, today's rate works out to roughly $5.8 million — while repeal would cost Ohio's schools and hospitals hundreds of millions a year.
