Just as Mark Twain suggested that reports of his death were premature, reports about a blue tsunami may be that way too. But both The Plain Dealer in Cleveland and The Blade in Toledo endorsed Dr. Amy Acton for governor of Ohio today, Sunday, October 25, 2026.
It might be the very day the MAGA movement died, right here in Northeast/ Northwest Ohio; the day two legacy newspapers, one just months from death’s door, for the first time in at least years if not decades, endorsed the Democrat running for Ohio governor.
The attack ad produced by Acton’s opponent, Vivek Ramaswamy, and featuring Acton’s mother calling her sexually abused daughter a liar, might well be the last nail in the MAGA movement’s red and gold coffin. After he paraded the woman, who stayed married to her 12-year-old’s abuser and never saw her daughter again, Ramaswamy doubled-down, and spent $4 million broadcasting the ad in these closing days of the Midterm campaign.
Perhaps Ramaswamy, Vice President J.D. Vance and President Donald J. Trump, will be all the MAGA that’s left, two mindless gnomes seeking the approval of the pedophile-and-chief. Ramaswamy, particularly, thought he was a big deal but turned out to be just another MAGA pedophile protector.
Is MAGA dead? Let’s hope it is. Personally, I voted a blue, blue ballot with the exception of two local offices. We might even see a blue wave sweep Democrats Easton Retzke and Mindy Kayl into the 89th House District seat, and Erie County commissioner’s race.
It’s worth noting that both the digital platforms for The Plain Dealer and The Blade posted their endorsements of Acton behind a paywall. Stay Tuned Sandusky has developed and published nearly 100 local news stories at its Best-Ever Local Election guide in the last 30 days, with none of them behind a paywall.
Here is the only part of the Blade endorsement I could scrape away from the hidden endorsement:
“Democratic nominee Amy Acton brings a proven track record of crisis management and institutional leadership to the statehouse,” The Blade editorial board wrote in the opening of the editorial, headlined, “Make a steady course with Acton.’