Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy holds big cash lead over Democrat Amy Acton after $25 million loan

By: Nick Evans, Reilly Ackermann

Outlets: Ohio Capital Journal

Published: April 27, 2026

Words: 1,135

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago


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Democratic candidate for governor Amy Acton raised $5.2 million during the first quarter of this year, and since joining the race for governor, she’s cleared $10 million, according to recently released campaign finance reports.

It’s an historic sum for the physician who led Ohio’s health department during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her campaign noted no previous Democratic hopeful has raised so much at this point in the calendar.

That announcement, which revised a previous quarterly fundraising …

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