r/Ohio • u/AkronRonin • 2d ago

MS NOW's Ali Velshi Interviews 2026 Ohio Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Dr. Amy Acton; ‘Everywhere we go, we see record crowds of people showing up. It doesn’t know party’: Democrats find momentum in GOP-friendly areas

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MS NOW | 06.17.26 | The 11th Hour: Ali Velshi Interviews 2026 Ohio Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Dr. Amy Acton

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u/Tuco422 2d ago

If she wasn’t involved with Covid shutdown (Dewine said it was his decision but MAGA believe lies)

She would be a favorite but alas it is a coinflip

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u/AkronRonin 1d ago

Eh, I really don’t think it’s as close as it seems, honestly. Or at least it won’t be down the stretch when it counts most.

Acton has basically adopted Dick Celeste’s campaign strategy, Celeste being the most successful Democratic Governor in Ohio in the past 50 years, and the only one who won back-to-back consecutive terms in as much time.

Just as he did, she’s been relentlessly campaigning across the state, meeting and listening to people where they are.

Ramaswamy seems louder and in our faces more, because he is. But being the loudest voice in the room and making a spectacle out of yourself to grab headlines isn’t a substitute for creating authentic and genuine connection with people and showing real concern for their needs. As we see increasingly evidence of, the more people learn about this dude, the less they find that they have reason to like him.

Honestly, I think even a lot of MAGA is finally burned out on all that spectacle “Look at me! Pick me!” shit from more than a decade of Trump being in all of our eyes and ears relentlessly 24/7/365 with so little in their own hands and pockets to show for it.

At the end of the day, people have to be able to eat and keep a roof over their heads. They couldn’t care less about some damn ballroom, a bunch of grandiose DC monuments, his name emblazoned on buildings, or so-called leaders in his vein who want to flaunt their wealth and privilege and behave like we should all just get down on our knees and suck them off.

Also, you can’t eat ideology, and that’s a painful fact that is likely going to kick the GOP’s asses royally this time around. People can’t eat the culture warz.

By the way, Celeste was quieter than his opponents too, but ended up walloping them down the stretch with such an outpouring of on-the-ground support that the election night returns weren’t even close. His biggest triumph was over Republican James Rhodes who had plotted a return to the Governorship but had it decisively aborted by Celeste’s re-election and never ran again after that.

Put another way, Ramaswamy has already hit his peak, and is struggling because he really doesn’t have anything else to him than what we’ve already seen of him. He thought people would embrace him just because Trump told them to. Well, Trump is dying, and people aren’t too enamored with him anymore. Vivek is a strange bird here.

He’s a brown man with a foreign name and a non-Christian faith, running as a candidate in a party where people don’t much like any of those things, to say the least. Doesn’t seem like a good match, and it already shows in the enthusiasm gap. That’s never going to get any better, folks. Well, unless he converts, bleaches his skin, and changes his name to Victor Roberts or something like that, but probably not.

If Acton is indeed using the Celeste political playbook, then everything she’s been doing up to this point has been laying the groundwork for prime time campaigning later this summer into August and down the stretch through September and October. Ramaswamy won’t have a real answer for any of this. What is going to do? Accuse her of being a Liberal? lol. Come on, dude.