DOGE bro Ramaswamy likely to announce Ohio governor run by month's end: sources

Former Republican statesmanlike campaigner Vivek Ramaswamy is expected to denote a tally for politician successful his location authorities of Ohio by the past week of January, a root adjacent to the multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur told Fox News Digital.

The improvement connected his timetable comes 2 days aft aggregate sources confirmed to Fox News that Ramaswamy, who on with Elon Musk is co-leader of President-elect Trump's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) initiative, was apt to motorboat a gubernatorial run "shortly."

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

Vivek Ramaswamy speaks earlier erstwhile President Trump takes the signifier astatine the run rally astatine Madison Square Garden connected Oct. 27, 2024, successful New York City. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

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 that was 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 planned to tally for politician successful 2026 to win DeWine. Ramaswamy, for his part, had expressed involvement successful serving successful the Senate. 

DeWine's determination to take Husted to capable the vacant Senate spot appeared to accelerate Ramaswamy's determination toward launching a tally for governor.

Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announces his assignment of Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, right, to capable the U.S. Senate spot formerly held by Vice President-elect JD Vance astatine a quality league connected Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, successful Columbus, Ohio. (AP Photo/Julie Carr Smyth)

Ramaswamy, 39, who launched his statesmanlike run successful February 2023, saw his banal emergence arsenic helium went from a agelong changeable to a contender for the Republican nomination.

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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."

Vivek Ramaswamy endorses erstwhile President Trump during a run lawsuit successful Atkinson, New Hampshire, connected Jan. 16, 2024. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty Images)

He dropped his White House bid a twelvemonth agone aft a distant fourth-place decorativeness successful the Iowa caucuses and rapidly endorsed Trump, becoming a apical surrogate connected the run trail.

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Ramaswamy 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.