{"id":78356,"date":"2026-09-06T17:55:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/assailant-lunged-at-democratic-candidate-for-ohio-governor-campaign-says\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:55:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T22:55:39","slug":"assailant-lunged-at-democratic-candidate-for-ohio-governor-campaign-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/assailant-lunged-at-democratic-candidate-for-ohio-governor-campaign-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, campaign says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Team says armed suspect attacked Amy Acton during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people<\/p>\n<p>Amy Acton, Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, was the target of an attack on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, campaign officials said. Several people were injured when the armed assailant lunged at Acton.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground before he was arrested and was \u201cdiscovered to have weapons\u201d, Mahoning county Democratic party chairperson Chris Anderson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/christopher.anderson.1291\/posts\/pfbid02cQ7BLtAqPGQLxfeMFhKkT7FizyBcfkBcv2VLFwCm42ThbbyHA31cZGUqs6fwGgxkl\">said in a statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/sep\/06\/amy-acton-ohio-governor-candidate-attack\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team says armed suspect attacked Amy Acton during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people Amy Acton, Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, was the target of an attack on Sunday during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, campaign officials said. Several people were injured when the armed assailant lunged at Acton. &#8230; <a title=\"Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, campaign says\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/06\/assailant-lunged-at-democratic-candidate-for-ohio-governor-campaign-says\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Assailant lunged at Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, campaign says\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78356","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=78356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}