The Associated Press has declared Amy Acton the winner of the Democratic nomination for governor of Ohio, while Vivek Ramaswamy has secured the Republican nod. In the Senate race, NBC News has called Sherrod Brown the winner for the Democrats, though we’re still waiting on the AP’s official blessing. Brown, who lost re-election in 2024, now gets a rematch against Republican incumbent Jon Husted. Every statewide executive office in Ohio is up for grabs due to term limits, because apparently term limits are the only things politicians respect.
Meanwhile, Indiana voters are also at the polls, with Donald Trump posting on Truth Social to cheer on his endorsed candidates and mock the Republican state senators who dared to oppose his redistricting push. Outside groups have spent over $8 million targeting incumbents there, because nothing says democracy like anonymous cash from super-PACs. In state senate district 23, Trump-endorsed Paula Copenhaver is taking on incumbent Spencer Deery, who has a massive fundraising lead ($500,000 to $15,000), but outside groups have spent over $2 million in ads for Copenhaver. In district 1, Trump’s pick Trevor de Vries raised just over $30,000, while incumbent Dan Dernulc has over $200,000. AdImpact reports over $200,000 in outside spending to help Trump’s opponent.
In Tennessee, human rights activist Martin Luther King III sent a letter to legislative leaders expressing “grave concern” over plans to divide Memphis’ congressional representation, joining a chorus of pushback against the special session called to redraw maps after a supreme court ruling. “Do not take this nation back to the days of Jim Crow,” he wrote. Meanwhile, protests outside the state capitol in Nashville saw demonstrators shouting “hands off Memphis” as the Republican-controlled assembly eyes a map that could dissolve the only Democratic district in the state.
In Florida, Palm Beach International Airport will officially be renamed after Donald Trump, after county commissioners approved the transition on Tuesday. The new logo features a gold eagle holding two olive branches, presumably because nothing says peace like naming an airport after a man who never concedes a loss. Eric Trump called it “an incredible honor,” which is one way to describe it.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended spiking gas prices - now averaging $4.50 a gallon, the highest in four years - by saying other countries are suffering “big time” and the US is “very fortunate.” Rubio added, “Even though that’s not welcome news to Americans that are paying more at the pump,” which is the diplomatic equivalent of saying “sorry your wallet is on fire.”
President Trump declined to specify what Iran would have to do to violate the ceasefire after recent exchanges of fire in the Strait of Hormuz, saying, “They know what to do, or what not to do more importantly.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth insisted Project Freedom has given the US control of the strait, despite Iran claiming the opposite and thousands of cargo ships remaining stranded.
The US Education Department is investigating one of the country’s largest women’s colleges over its admittance of transgender women, continuing the administration’s assault on trans people. The office of civil rights announced the probe on Monday, claiming the Massachusetts college could be violating federal law by allowing “biological males into women’s intimate spaces.”
And finally, Senate committees have released text for a reconciliation package allocating over $70 billion for immigration enforcement through the remainder of Trump’s term, plus $1 billion for Secret Service security upgrades for Trump’s White House ballroom project. Because nothing says fiscal conservatism like a billion-dollar ballroom.