{"id":73137,"date":"2026-05-06T09:58:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/vivek-ramaswamy-wins-ohio-gop-primary-setting-up-tight-governor-race\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:58:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T14:58:46","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-wins-ohio-gop-primary-setting-up-tight-governor-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/vivek-ramaswamy-wins-ohio-gop-primary-setting-up-tight-governor-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy wins Ohio GOP primary, setting up tight governor race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump-backed biotech entrepreneur will face Democrat Amy Acton in a competitive November contest<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/may\/05\/donald-trump-iran-ohio-primary-vivek-ramaswamy-casey-putsch-marco-rubio-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/vivek-ramaswamy\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a>, a Republican former presidential candidate, won his primary race for Ohio governor on Tuesday, setting up a closely watched contest in November\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p>The biotech entrepreneur, who was endorsed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and briefly co-led Trump\u2019s so-called \u201cdepartment of government efficiency\u201d (Doge) with Elon Musk at the start of the president\u2019s second term, beat Casey Putsch, the internet personality, to land the nomination.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/may\/06\/vivek-ramaswamy-ohio-gop-primary\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump-backed biotech entrepreneur will face Democrat Amy Acton in a competitive November contest US politics live \u2013 latest updates Vivek Ramaswamy, a Republican former presidential candidate, won his primary race for Ohio governor on Tuesday, setting up a closely watched contest in November\u2019s election. The biotech entrepreneur, who was endorsed by Donald Trump and &#8230; <a title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy wins Ohio GOP primary, setting up tight governor race\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/vivek-ramaswamy-wins-ohio-gop-primary-setting-up-tight-governor-race\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Vivek Ramaswamy wins Ohio GOP primary, setting up tight governor race\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}