For months, Vivek Ramaswamy has tried to make the Ohio governor’s race about affordability, taxes, crime and Amy Acton’s record during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A federal judge just handed Democrats a very different closing argument.
On Aug. 25, U.S. District Judge Julien Xavier Neals refused to dismiss the central whistleblower claims brought by former Strive Asset Management executive Joyce Rosely, who alleges Ramaswamy demanded that employees violate securities laws, received their repeated objections and participated in firing her afterward.
Ramaswamy and Strive deny the allegations.
But politically, the timing could hardly be worse.
The Republican nominee is heading into the final stretch of a race that has settled into a statistical dead heat, while Democratic groups are already spending heavily to portray his business career not as the qualification he says it is, but as evidence that he cannot be trusted.
Now a federal court has ensured that one of the most serious disputes from that business career will remain alive while Ohioans are deciding who should run the state.
Ramaswamy is not entering the fall with a commanding Republican advantage.
The latest public polling has repeatedly shown the race within a few points. A mid-August Wedgewood Polls survey had Democrat Amy Acton ahead 47% to 46%, while a Fox News survey conducted around the same period had Ramaswamy ahead 50% to 48%. A July Siena College survey found...
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