Ohio graduate student says he’ll make another bid for governor in 2026

COLUMBUS Ohio AP An Ohio State University master s apprentice declared Wednesday that he s making an independent bid for governor in This marks Timothy Grady s second go at the office The -year-old who says he advocates new economic thinking and systemic political change ran what he describes as a largely satirical write-in campaign in He earned the endorsement of performance artist and activist Vermin Supreme and finishing fourth of six candidates with votes This time he s entering a race that includes billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy who is backed by Trump and the state Republican Party Appalachian entrepreneur Heather Hill and Democrat Amy Acton a former state medical director who led Ohio through the early days of the COVID- pandemic Grady disclosed in a news release that he is still not the candidate Ohioans deserve but In the current field I can confidently say I m the best candidate for the job because our toxic politics otherwise keeps good people out A native of northern Ohio s Richland County Grady is working toward a master s of populace administration at the university s John Glenn College of Masses Affairs He in the past few days chaired and led a reorganization of the Ohio chapter of the Forward Party a centrist political movement founded by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang Source