{"id":2655422,"date":"2026-09-06T17:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amy-acton-attacked-by-armed-individual-at-campaign-stop-in-ohio\/"},"modified":"2026-09-06T17:45:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-06T21:45:27","slug":"amy-acton-attacked-by-armed-individual-at-campaign-stop-in-ohio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amy-acton-attacked-by-armed-individual-at-campaign-stop-in-ohio\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Acton attacked by &#8216;armed individual&#8217; at campaign stop in Ohio"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famy-acton-attacked-by-armed-individual-at-campaign-stop-in-ohio%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2655422&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>An armed individual attacked Ohio Democratic gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton during a campaign event near youngstown, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/afghan-iranian-authorities-probe-fuel-tank-say-terror-attack-possible\/\" title=\"Afghan, Iranian authorities probe fuel tank, say terror attack \u2018possible\u2019\">injuring multiple people<\/a>. The attacker lunged at Dr. Acton at the Canfield Fair, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/armed-student-shot-and-killed-before-entering-wisconsin-school-police\/\" title=\"Student with weapon fatally shot by police outside Wisconsin school\">law enforcement quickly responded<\/a>, apprehending the suspect who was armed with multiple weapons. The extent of injuries remains unclear. The incident has been condemned, with authorities emphasizing that violence has no place in Ohio.additional details and related political updates are available through linked articles.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An armed individual attacked <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ohio\/\">Ohio<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/democratic-party\/\">Democratic<\/a> gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton and injured multiple people at a campaign event on Sunday near Youngstown, according to her campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile attending the Canfield Fair, an armed individual lunged at Dr. Acton, injuring multiple people,\u201d communications director Addie Bullock said in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/actonforgovernor.com\/acton-campaign-statement-on-incident-at-canfield-fair\/\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cDr. Acton and Eric are grateful for the swift and decisive action of law enforcement and are praying for the recovery of those injured. This kind of violence has no place in Ohio. 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ACTION MATCHUP FOR OHIO GOVERNOR<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is unclear how many people have been injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>This is a breaking news story that will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Armed attacker injures multiple at Ohio campaign event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3238,"featured_media":2655423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26126785924412.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[80319,50296,85225,42803,34722],"class_list":["post-2655422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-amy-acton","tag-armed-attack","tag-campaign-violence-2","tag-ohio-politics","tag-security-concerns"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AP26126785924412.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655422"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2655426,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655422\/revisions\/2655426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2655423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}