DOGE co-leader Ramaswamy planning 2026 run for governor in Ohio: sources

Vivek Ramaswamy, the multi-millionaire biotech entrepreneur and erstwhile Republican statesmanlike candidate, plans to motorboat a bid for Ohio governor, aggregate sources corroborate to Fox News Digital.

The sources adhd that Ramaswamy, who on with Elon Musk is co-leader of President-elect Donald Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, is expected to marque an announcement connected a gubernatorial tally "shortly."

"Vivek’s basal program remains [the] same: to get accomplishments astatine DOGE and past denote a tally for politician shortly," said an Ohio operative acquainted with Ramaswamy’s reasoning who asked to stay anonymous to talk much freely, told Fox News connected Friday.

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Current Ohio Republican Gov. Mike DeWine is term-limited and cannot question re-election successful 2026.

DeWine connected Friday announced that Lt. Gov. Jon Husted would capable the U.S. Senate spot held by former Sen. JD Vance until earlier this month, erstwhile the vice president-elect stepped down up of Monday's inauguration.

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Before the Senate announcement, Husted had agelong planned to tally for politician successful 2026 to win DeWine.

The now-39-year-old Ramaswamy, who launched his statesmanlike run successful February 2023, saw his banal emergence arsenic helium went from a long-shot to a contender for the Republican nomination.

Ramaswamy campaigned connected what helium called an "America First 2.0" docket and was 1 of Trump's biggest supporters successful the tract of rivals, calling Trump the "most palmy president successful our century."

He dropped his White House bid a twelvemonth agone aft a distant decorativeness successful the Iowa caucuses. Ramaswamy rapidly endorsed Trump and became a apical surrogate connected the run trail.

Ramaswamy, an Ohio native, was named on with Musk, the world's richest person, to pb DOGE, successful an announcement successful November by Trump.

Ohio, which was erstwhile a apical wide predetermination battleground, has shifted reddish implicit the past decennary arsenic Republicans person dominated statewide elections.