Former biotech CEO and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has gobbled up lots of media attention in recent weeks ahead of his long-anticipated 2026 run for Ohio governor, which he is expected to announce in the coming days after he parted ways last month with the Trump administration’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

He’s enjoyed front-runner status in the media before formally launching his campaign for term-limited Republican Governor Mike DeWine’s seat, with a pro-Ramaswamy group releasing a poll last month that showed the former presidential candidate winning the support of a majority of Republican primary voters and leading his closest competitor, Attorney General Dave Yost, by 34 points. (In that poll, Yost had the support of 18 percent of GOP primary voters, with 27 percent of voters remaining undecided and two other prospective candidates — state Treasurer Robert Sprague (2 percent) and 2022 lieutenant governor candidate Jeremiah Workman (1 percent) — hardly registering in the survey.)

But

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