Former football coach in Ohio, and now lieutenant Jim Tressel, on the left, with the Republican Governor Ohio Mike Dewine, on the right. (Photo provided by the Ohio Governor’s office.)
Governor Ohio Jim Tressel announced on X on Friday afternoon that after many “significant thinking and prayer” will not be part of the 2026 race for the Governor of Buckeye.
“It was an extraordinary honor of life for Ellen and me to serve alongside the governor Mike Dewine and the first lady Fran Dewine,” wrote Tressel in The Post. “After considerable thinking and prayer, we decided not to run for a governor in 2026.”
Tressel said that he would focus the rest of his term on devoting full attention to educational problems and labor in Ohio.
Tressela’s decision opens a simpler path through the basic GOP for Vivek Ramaswama, who won Nomination of the party party party Ohio For the governor in May.
At the moment he is on the right track to face the democrat of Amy Acton in the universal elections in November next year.
Earlier this summer, Ramasw, he sat down with John Kosich from News 5 about his vision Ohio in 2026 and later.
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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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