Former football coach Ohio State University, Jim Tressel, will become the second command. This not only shakes the current composition, but can radically change what is happening in the Governor’s Governor 2026.
Ohio is to have a fresh lieutenant governor with a surprise on Monday.
Tressel is someone who the governor respects – and trusts.
“If something happens to me, it can come in and become a governor of that day,” said Dewine during a press conference. “It would be trouble -free and he would be able to take control.”
And Dewine can be fishing for Tressel to be his successor.
For years, it has been speculated that Tressel will run for the governor. The former coach focuses on being a lieutenant governor, he said during a press conference.
“I promised for 699 days … I will even have goals and loneliness of focus – to meet the needs presented by the governor,” said Tressel.
The Republican Bob Clegg strategist said that Tressel already has several key advantages of winning the state if he is running for a governor when Dewine is narrow in 2026.
“He also chose someone who has about 95% of the Ohio name identifier, which is very rare,” said Clegg. “And Jim Tressel cannot have a better picture here in the state of Ohio.”
Identification of the name refers to the number of voters who already know you in advance.
Currently, the names considered by dozens of political people from the external for the governor are prosecutor general Dave Yost and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswama.
“It’s my heart, my home,” Yost said in its offer. “I work for Ohio residents and I love my bosses. Since I get up in the morning until I go to sleep at night, I think about them and our future. “
Yost is also a long -term politician, starting with backstage, and then working as an auditor of Delaware, and then the prosecutor. Before he became AG, he was a state auditor.
Would he be the implementation of the government department Vivek Ramaswama showed interest in applying for the governor. He has not submitted any forms so far.
We talked to Ramaswajem just before the announcement of his appointment to Trump’s administration.
“There is no reason why Ohio’s state cannot be a leading country in the country to start and develop a new business to bring a young family and raise them,” said Ramaswama.
According to the day on which Trump was sworn in to the office, the technology tycoon Elon Musk allegedly helped to throw a collaborator out of work, according to Report with Politico. In the article by Ramaswa, he “irritated” part of the inner circle of Trump. The publication said that his team now says that his departure is caused by his upcoming announcement to the governor.
Treasurer Ohio, Robert Sportue, previously changed his documents to indicate that he was running for the governor, but quickly moved to escape for the secretary of state. In the film he supported Ramaswama for the governor. Sec. Stan Frank Larose also supported Ramasw, his executive colleague Yost.
But why should Dewine weigh? We talked about it with two dozen political people from outside.
Dewine’s dilemma
The expansive majority of the strategists we talked to argued that the governor was in a sticky situation.
Let’s change until the beginning of 2024. The former lieutenant Jon Husted was a leader who became the governor in 2026. Due to the credibility of President JD Vance, who must give up his American Senate headquarters, Dewine was supposed to find a deputy.
The way it looks like now is a high probability that Ramaswie is a governor, every strategist we talked to in the last two days.
Dewine-which has repeatedly avoided talking about Ramaswama and sometimes turned his eyes to the mention of his name-a 39-year-old businessman differs dramatically when it comes to politics.
The couple differ from Covid-19, transgender healthcare, uprising on January 6, facilitate for Ukraine and many others.
Probably the governor is probably worried, according to strategists, is Ramaswamy’s position on education. Not only does the Education Department want to close, but some Republicans are afraid that he will end some programs that the governor worked in the entire governor’s career to facilitate – such as free books for children, focusing on mental health, and fully finance public schools.
Dewine is subtle and spends most of his time to go through a state of school. Some strategists wondered if Ramaswa would actually do the work, which the governor is currently doing.
He is worried that Yost does not want enough money, Dewine throws a hail of Mary, some strategists said.
Unlike previous stories about who the US Senate would be, two dozens of politicians were almost evenly divided into whether Tressel was considered an actual option for 2026.
Clegg said that recognizing the name can save millions of dollars to raise funds, that Tressel will have to compete with Ramaswama; However, he mentioned his age as a negative factor. He added that usually people do not run in the national office as a 74-year-old.
There is also a debate on the frontal race compared to the three -sided race with Ramaswama and Yost. Can Tressel steal enough voters from each of the two candidates to win?
“I think it can cross this Trump bridge better than the governor,” said Clegg.
There is also an argument that Ramaswama may not even remain in the race, according to strategists.
In an interview with Fox News, President Donald Trump refused to support Vance as his successor. Clegg, however, did not consider this as negative for Vance.
“When he does support, he wants to make sure that he will stick to and that it will be the right support,” said the strategist.
He added that Ramaswama saw it as an opening of presidential candidacy.
We reached the Ramaswamy team, but we didn’t hear.
But when it comes to obtaining this desirable support from the president, Clegg believes that Tressel can catch him as a governor.
“He wants to choose the winner and loves football – we know about it,” Clegga laughed. “He would love Jim Tressel.”
For now, Tressel must focus on confirmation by the legislator.
“This is a very popular choice,” said House finance chairman Brian Stewart, R-Ashville on Tuesday, supporting the question about the governor’s race.
Legislative leaders say that Tressel will probably be approved this week.
This article was Originally published on News5Cleveland.com and is published at the Ohio Capital Journal on the basis of a content division agreement. Unlike other OCJ articles, it is not available for free publication by other information service, because it is owned by WSPs at Cleveland.
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