An armed assailant lunged at the Democratic candidate for Ohio governor, Amy Acton, on Sunday (September 6, 2026) during a campaign stop at the Canfield Fair, injuring several people, campaign officials said.
That includes the 2017 shooting at a Republican congressional baseball team practice in Alexandria, Virginia; the 2022 hammer assault on the husband of Democratic then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California; the 2024 assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania rally during his presidential campaign as well as another on the President at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April; and the assassinations last year of a Democratic Minnesota state lawmaker and her husband and of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk in Utah. Ms. “Dr. The attempted attack is the latest political violence to roil the United States. Ms. Acton is facing Republican Vivek Ramaswamy, who has parlayed his national name recognition, tech industry connections and alliance with President Donald Trump into a record fundraising haul that he is tapping for advertising spots aimed at the November election. He is using campaign rallies and advertising to criticise Ms. Acton. Mr. The country has seen a rise in political violence over the past decade.
The suspect knocked volunteers to the ground and was arrested with “multiple weapons,” Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman Chris Anderson said in a statement. Acton, the state’s former public health director, was not injured, but her campaign officials said multiple people were hurt. Acton will always stand up to the chaos, hate and vitriol that pits us against one another,” said Addie Bullock, communications director for the campaign.
And the Ohio gubernatorial race is one of the most high-profile races this year as the campaigns enter the final six weeks of campaigning before the election in November. Ramaswamy’s campaign called the incident on Sunday unacceptable.
