Vice President JD Vance warned voters during his final midterm rally in Ohio on Monday that Somali communities are coordinating to flood the polls and drown out the votes of Americans.
Vance urged people to vote for Vivek Ramaswamy for governor.
Standing alongside Ramaswamy at the Eugene F. Kranz Toledo Express Airport rally, Vance said he had seen a story in the last couple of days about the effort and framed the choice as one about whether American elections will belong to American citizens.
"Now, I saw a story, just in the last couple of days, that there are illegal communities of illegal immigrant Somalis who are coordinating to flood the polls and drown out your vote," Vance told the crowd.
"Well, I happen to believe that we want American elections to belong to American citizens. Send a message by voting for Vivek for governor!"
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🇺🇸🇸🇴 Vance WARNED about illegal Somali communities coordinating to flood the polls and drown out citizens’ votes
— Mario Nawfal (@MarioNawfal) November 2, 2026
He said he saw a story claiming these groups are organizing to overwhelm American voters, then called for elections that belong to citizens.
After everything that…
Vance's warning arrived shortly after The Gateway Pundit reported on Ohio Democrat State Representative Ismail Mohamed, a Somali-born lawmaker, who has endorsed Ramaswamy's opponent Amy Acton.
In subtitled clips, Mohamed told Somali audiences that the community's aim is a united front to lobby for Somalia, referenced a network of Somali elected officials including Rep. Ilhan Omar, and urged support for Acton while describing Vivek's backers as "the MAGA crowd, Trump's crowd, the racist crowd."
"Our aim is a united front to lobby for Somalia" - Rep Ismail Mohamed
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 1, 2026
He just endorsed Amy Acton. https://t.co/0iv3KEKcmj pic.twitter.com/laY4vzrPou
Central Ohio currently hosts the second-largest Somali community in the country after Minneapolis, with estimates of nearly 70,000 Somali migrants living in the region, according to a report from Breitbart News.
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