Young white voters in Ohio swung roughly 55 points toward Democrats between the 2024 and 2026 elections, moving from backing President Donald Trump by 11 points to favoring Democrat Amy Acton over Republican Vivek Ramaswamy by 44 points, according to exit polling cited by CNN.
\n\nAmong white voters aged 18 to 29, Trump won Ohio 55% to Kamala Harris’s 44% in 2024. Two years later, the same group broke the other way. Acton took 70% of them on Tuesday against Ramaswamy’s 26%, exit poll data showed. The former state health director won the governorship outright. No Democrat had carried the office in Ohio since 2006.
\n\nMonths before the result, Ramaswamy had brushed aside Democrat hopes of turning the state blue. “It’s going to remain a pipe dream on their part,” the former presidential candidate said after winning the Republican primary in May.
\n\nThe Trump-backed entrepreneur entered the race as the favorite, and President Trump, who carried Ohio three times, campaigned for him and called Acton “a radical left lunatic” at an October rally in Youngstown.
\n\nRamaswamy had poured $10 million into an advertising blitz in the spring that his campaign said would run through Election Day, yet he trailed Acton…
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