Trump's Appearance in Ohio Underscores All the Reasons the GOP Is Unpopular Will the president's steadfast support of data centers cost Ohio Republicans a victory? President Donald Trump speaks during a midterm election rally, Saturday, Oct. 3, 2026, in Vandalia, Ohio. Get your news from a source that's not owned and controlled by oligarchs. On Saturday, President Donald Trump hosted a campaign rally for Ohio senatorial and gubernatorial candidates, John Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy. As part of his campaign to revive GOP turnout and avoid what is widely predicted to be a Democratic sweep, he appeared in Ohio following weekend visits to Texas, Oklahoma, and Alabama.

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Trump's third visit to the battleground state comes just one day after his election integrity joint press conference with House Speaker Mike Johnson. Following Iran's attack on Israel, former President Trump shared a heated message to those in attendance at his rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday, vowing it should not have happened. "Before going any further, I want to say God bless the people of Israel. That's because we show great weakness," Trump said to open his speech. "The weakness that we've shown is unbelievable, and it would not have happened if we were in office. They know that, and everybody knows that."

Bernie Moreno, a Republican U.S. Senate candidate from Ohio, discusses the GOP's eagerness to retake the Senate in November, the illegal immigration crisis and Nikki Haley's refusal to drop out of the primary race. Republican Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno is blasting the Associated Press after a story published days before the primary election linking him to an adult online dating site, which a former intern has taken credit for creating, was called into question by the dating site's founder. On Friday, a post on X from one of the founders of the online site Adult Friend Finder, who says he wrote "most of the early code," seemingly rejected a key aspect of an Associated Press report days earlier that suggested "geolocation data," which is commonly understood as involving an IP address or GPS, linked the account to the area of a Moreno family home. "I reviewed all the available information and it showed that the account had only a single visit, no activity, no profile photo, consistent with a prank or someone just checking out the site," Andrew Conru, the engineer who founded Adult Friend Finder, wrote on social media. "The AP report seeming to claim that the available data proves the account was created in Florida is inaccurate, as location information is manually entered during the signup (sic) process. In reality, there appears to be no public geolocation data tied to the account."