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冲突与气候灾难交织 全球近9000万难民面临极端气候威胁

发布/2026年11月6日 08:49

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孟加拉国科克斯巴扎尔一个难民营的罗兴亚难民儿童边走边吃冰淇淋消暑。联合国难民署发表报告指出，全球有近9000万难民生活在受气候变化威胁的脆弱国家。 （路透社）

联合国难民署（UNHCR）星期五（11月6日）发表最新报告指出，全球有近9000万被迫流离失所的人生活在那些日益面临气候相关干旱、洪水和极端高温威胁的国家。

据路透社报道，全球近四分之三的难民与流离失所者栖身在阿富汗、孟加拉等极度脆弱的气候高风险区，战乱冲突、被迫离家与气候危机正在全球范围内紧密交织。

报告列举苏丹难民在乍得东部法查纳（Farchana）难民安置点的艰难处境。一名在2023年6月逃离北达尔富尔州法希尔战火的苏丹妇女申诉，随着酷热天气不断加剧，安置点附近的季节性河床相继干涸，她有时长达一周无法取得安全饮用水，被迫徒步前往更遥远的地方寻找替代水源。

联合国难民署进一步警告，气候变化也严重阻碍流离失所者重返家园的进程。今年上半年，超过三分之二的返乡难民重回的是饱受极端气候灾害威胁的家园，导致他们陷入再度流离失所的恶性循环。

联合国难民署为此敦促即将出席COP31气候峰会的各国政府与金融机构大幅提高气候适应资金，以协助极度脆弱的受难群体在气候危机中求存。

联合国难民署负责行动事务的助理高级专员加西亚（Anton Leis Garcia）说：“在脆弱和受流离失所影响的地区，气候适应已是关乎生死存亡的问题。我们必须确保气候资金能够真正流入有最迫切需要的基层社区。”

联合国星期三（4日）公布的另一份报告显示，尽管全球极端天气事件愈发频繁和致命，但富裕国家目前向发展中国家提供的气候适应资金，仍远低于每年所需的3050亿美元（约3900亿新元），资金缺口极其严重。

冲突与气候灾难交织 全球近9000万难民面临极端气候威胁

2026年11月6日 08:49

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孟加拉国科克斯巴扎尔一个难民营的罗兴亚难民儿童边走边吃冰淇淋消暑。联合国难民署发表报告指出，全球有近9000万难民生活在受气候变化威胁的脆弱国家。 （路透社）

联合国难民署（UNHCR）星期五（11月6日）发表最新报告指出，全球有近9000万被迫流离失所的人生活在那些日益面临气候相关干旱、洪水和极端高温威胁的国家。

据路透社报道，全球近四分之三的难民与流离失所者栖身在阿富汗、孟加拉等极度脆弱的气候高风险区，战乱冲突、被迫离家与气候危机正在全球范围内紧密交织。

报告列举苏丹难民在乍得东部法查纳（Farchana）难民安置点的艰难处境。一名在2023年6月逃离北达尔富尔州法希尔战火的苏丹妇女申诉，随着酷热天气不断加剧，安置点附近的季节性河床相继干涸，她有时长达一周无法取得安全饮用水，被迫徒步前往更遥远的地方寻找替代水源。

联合国难民署进一步警告，气候变化也严重阻碍流离失所者重返家园的进程。今年上半年，超过三分之二的返乡难民重回的是饱受极端气候灾害威胁的家园，导致他们陷入再度流离失所的恶性循环。

联合国难民署为此敦促即将出席COP31气候峰会的各国政府与金融机构大幅提高气候适应资金，以协助极度脆弱的受难群体在气候危机中求存。

联合国难民署负责行动事务的助理高级专员加西亚（Anton Leis Garcia）说：“在脆弱和受流离失所影响的地区，气候适应已是关乎生死存亡的问题。我们必须确保气候资金能够真正流入有最迫切需要的基层社区。”

联合国星期三（4日）公布的另一份报告显示，尽管全球极端天气事件愈发频繁和致命，但富裕国家目前向发展中国家提供的气候适应资金，仍远低于每年所需的3050亿美元（约3900亿新元），资金缺口极其严重。

日本9月名义工资增长4.6% 创近30年最大增幅

发布/2026年11月6日 09:17

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日本9月份名义工资同比大幅攀升4.6%。 （路透社）

日本卫生劳动部星期五（11月6日）公布的最新数据显示，9月份名义工资同比大幅攀升4.6%，创下近30年的最大增幅。

强劲的薪金增长数据进一步印证日本正逐步摆脱长达数十年的通缩与工资停滞怪圈。市场普遍预期，这将为日本中央银行于12月上调基准利率铺平道路。

据彭博社报道，官方统计显示，日本9月份基本工资增长3.7%；在剔除花红、加班费及样本扭曲因素后，全职员工的工资更录得3.1%的创纪录涨幅。此外，扣除房租影响后的实际现金收入同比增2.2%，较8月份修正后的1.6%增幅进一步提速，远超经济师此前预估的1.3%。

这一薪金加速势头恰逢日本工会组织在筹备明年春季年度劳资谈判的关键节点。日本工会总联合会已在上个月呼吁成员在即将到来的谈判中争取约6%的加薪幅度，目标较今年更为进取。工会已连续三年争取到逾5%的加薪幅度，显示加薪正成为日本社会的常态。

稳步的工资增长是日本央行研判货币政策转向的核心前提。彭博社最新调查显示，逾80%受访经济师预计日本央行会在12月18日的货币政策会议上加息。

持续的用工荒虽然推高了整体工资，但对抵御风险能力较弱的中小企业构成严峻考验。东京商工调查（Tokyo Shoko Research）上月发布的报告披露，今年上半财年，日本因劳动力短缺引发的企业破产案例达到创纪录的240起，其中超过半数的破产企业直指劳动力成本激增为主要推手。

美股暴跌蔓延日韩 日经挫逾5% 韩股暴跌8.5%熔断

发布/2026年11月6日 09:28

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美国科技股星期四的暴跌潮，星期五蔓延到日韩股市。 （路透社）

[美国中期选举]结果引发的[美国科技股抛售潮]星期五（11月6日）蔓延至[亚洲市场]，日本与韩国股市早盘双双暴跌。东京日经225指数早盘重挫5.1%；韩国综合股价指数更是断崖式跳水8.5%，触发熔断机制，导致首尔股市紧急暂停交易20分钟。

纳斯达克综合指数星期四收盘暴跌5.5%，市值单日蒸发约2.5万亿美元（约3.2万亿新元）；包括苹果、英伟达与特斯拉在内的“科技七巨头”，单日市值累计损失高达1万亿美元。

据法新社报道，这股科技抛售潮对高度依赖[人工智能（AI）]供应链的日韩半导体制造商造成重创。在韩国，生产用于驱动AI工具的高端内存晶片制造商首当其冲：三星电子股价暴跌近10%，SK海力士重挫超过11%。日本晶片相关类股同样未能幸免，东京电子股价大跌约9%，铠侠控股（Kioxia）狂泻13%。

日本网络券商Monex在分析报告中说：“继民主党在中期选举大胜后，市场对AI相关技术监管趋严的担忧引发了（美国）市场的广泛抛售，科技股首当其冲，导致美国三大指数全线下挫。”

全球投资者在星期二（3日）美国中期选举初步揭晓时，一度对民主党击溃特朗普领导的共和党报以热烈掌声，但随后市场情绪急转直下。投资者担忧，华盛顿的权力洗牌将沉重打击被视为经济增长核心引擎的关键AI投资。

Trump’s 250-foot arch wins approval from planning commission stacked with allies

November 5, 2026 / 10:42 PM EST / CBS News

Washington— The National Capital Planning Commission voted Thursday to approve plans for President Trump’s 250-foot triumphal arch, giving the final go-ahead for the monument that’s set to be constructed between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

The NCPC, which acts as the federal government’s planning agency for the region and is stacked with Trump allies, voted 8-4 to greenlight the project after almost 9 hours of public comments from members of Congress, veterans, architects and Washington, D.C., and Virginia residents.

It’s unclear how soon construction of the arch could start, though the Justice Department said in a court filing last month that it could begin as soon as Thursday. A court challenge in Washington could delay the Trump administration’s plans.

In a separate filing Wednesday night, the Trump administration said that a construction company “may be — but is not necessarily — arranging off-site preparations for construction mobilization in anticipation of permit approval” at the site.

Ahead of the meeting, the NCPC’s executive director, Mark Paoletta, recommended approval of the final site and building plans for the structure, which is supposed to celebrate 250 years of American independence.

Paoletta, the top lawyer at the Office of Management and Budget, heralded Mr. Trump’s “historic vision” for the structure and said it would be the “grandest arch ever built by mankind.”

But California Rep. Jared Huffman, the top Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, said during the hearing that the arch is “illegal” and would “disrupt the solemn connection” between the Lincoln Memorial and Arlington National Cemetery.

“This arch would dishonor America, our ideals, and our laws,” Huffman said during remarks to the planning commission, adding that Congress is the appropriate body for debating the proposed monument.

One Marine veteran who spoke in opposition to the proposal, Jimi Shaughnessy, said “a dominating arch with a carnival-like atmosphere of tourists, food trucks and buses is abhorrent and insulting to those who gave all and to their families.”

“Instead of focusing on the issues facing military families, this administration is intent on spending taxpayer dollars to site, plan, and design a monument no one asked for, and are content with bypassing any laws or regulations that may prevent them from breaking ground,” he said.

The arch itself will be 166 feet tall and topped with “three gilded figures” — a gold, winged female figure flanked by a gold flying eagle on each side — bringing its overall height to 250 feet, according to documents filed with the NCPC. The structure will sit close to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, though the Federal Aviation Administration determined it will pose “no hazard to air navigation,” with a “condition for safety lighting that includes a non-standard eternal flame and continuous floodlighting.”

The arch will also feature an observation deck, and the Trump administration has estimated that it could draw between 2,000 and 22,400 visitors each day.

It’s expected to take three years to build the arch, which will be located in the center of what is called Memorial Circle, across the Potomac from the Lincoln Memorial. It’s unclear how much the project will cost, and who will foot the bill.

Mr. Trump said in September that his “Triumphal Arch” would be a “top grade Military Complex” and house drones and sniper ammunition. But the documents from the NCPC do not include the military usage

Lawyers for the Justice Department declined to provide more details about the national security features in an October hearing.

The commission received more than 1,300 public comments about the project, most of which were in opposition, it said.

The NCPC’s approval comes as a federal judge is weighing whether to temporarily block construction of the arch. A group of Vietnam War veterans, as well as the Commonwealth of Virginia and the city of Washington, D.C., have filed lawsuits arguing that the Trump administration is acting without congressional authorization and is not complying with the required procedures to construct the monument.

In an order Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan required the government to provide her notice within one hour of any NCPC vote and a thirty-minute notice to any preparation for construction of the arch to give her time to issue a decision on whether to block construction.

In a hearing last month, Chutkan said the most important issue for her is whether the Vietnam War veterans had the legal right to sue. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court found that a group of plaintiffs who brought a similar suit to block the White House ballroom construction likely did not have legal standing to challenge the project.

In court filings, the Justice Department called the plaintiffs’ motions “breathless” and urged Chutkan to follow the Supreme Court’s decision in the White House ballroom case, but attorneys for the groups of plaintiffs argued that their legal arguments were different than the ballroom case and urged Chutkan to halt the arch’s construction.

Two of the plaintiffs, Vietnam veterans Michael Lemmon and Shaun Byrnes, told Chutkan in a hearing last month that the arch construction would impact their experience when visiting graves at Arlington National Cemetery, and said they would be harmed by the arch’s size and purpose.

In a separate suit brought in late October, Virginia and the District of Columbia sued, and the case was assigned to Chutkan, who had heard arguments the day before from the Vietnam veterans group. The state’s attorneys general argued that “as soon as Defendants break ground on this project, they will inflict irreparable harm” on them because “the Arch project will inevitably snarl traffic between the jurisdictions, produce pollution and stormwater runoff in the Potomac, interfere with emergency services, and pose numerous other challenges.”

美股暴跌蔓延日韩 日经挫逾5% 韩股暴跌8.5%熔断

发布/2026年11月6日 09:28

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美国科技股星期四的暴跌潮，星期五蔓延到日韩股市。 （路透社）

美国中期选举结果引发的美国科技股抛售潮星期五（11月6日）蔓延至亚洲市场，日本与韩国股市早盘双双暴跌。东京日经225指数早盘重挫5.1%；韩国综合股价指数更是断崖式跳水8.5%，触发熔断机制，导致首尔股市紧急暂停交易20分钟。

纳斯达克综合指数星期四收盘暴跌5.5%，市值单日蒸发约2.5万亿美元（约3.2万亿新元）；包括苹果、英伟达与特斯拉在内的“科技七巨头”，单日市值累计损失高达1万亿美元。

据法新社报道，这股科技抛售潮对高度依赖人工智能（AI）供应链的日韩半导体制造商造成重创。在韩国，生产用于驱动AI工具的高端内存晶片制造商首当其冲：三星电子股价暴跌近10%，SK海力士重挫超过11%。日本晶片相关类股同样未能幸免，东京电子股价大跌约9%，铠侠控股（Kioxia）狂泻13%。

日本网络券商Monex在分析报告中说：“继民主党在中期选举大胜后，市场对AI相关技术监管趋严的担忧引发了（美国）市场的广泛抛售，科技股首当其冲，导致美国三大指数全线下挫。”

全球投资者在星期二（3日）美国中期选举初步揭晓时，一度对民主党击溃特朗普领导的共和党报以热烈掌声，但随后市场情绪急转直下。投资者担忧，华盛顿的权力洗牌将沉重打击被视为经济增长核心引擎的关键AI投资。

Democrat who flipped GOP House seat on her mission to ‘push the corruption out of the system’

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By Jake Tapper, CNN
Published 6:22 PM EST, Thu November 5, 2026

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Democrat who flipped GOP House seat on her mission to ‘push the corruption out of the system’

The Lead

Congresswoman-elect Paige Cognetti joins The Lead.

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Democrats’ House majority is trending toward historic

2026-11-05T20:47:48.417Z

The 2026 midterm elections have clearly been very good for Democrats across the board. But their House majority is trending toward historic numbers.

CNN is projecting that Democrats have won more than 250 House seats, with a net gain of around 40 seats. And they could hit or even exceed 260 total seats by the time all is said and done.

That would give them around an 85-seat majority and make it the biggest Democratic majority since the early 1990s — the tail end of decades of Democratic domination of the House.

After flipping more seats on Thursday afternoon, Democrats have won or hold leads in 259 districts. If those margins hold, Republicans would end up with 174 (two Louisiana races are headed to runoffs).

Democrats lead by around a point or less in six districts: South Carolina’s 1st, Colorado’s 4th, Florida’s 9th, Minnesota’s 1st, North Carolina’s 5th and Tennessee’s 4th.

If Democrats get to 260 seats, it would be their biggest House majority since 1991-93, when they had 267. They had 258 seats in the following Congress and 257 after former President Barack Obama’s big win in 2008 swept Democrats into power.

By winning more than 250 seats, Democrats’ House majority is already bigger than any Republican House majority since the Great Depression. (The GOP’s high watermark since then was 247 seats after the 2014 election). If they won 260, it would mean Democrats have won 60% of the available House seats.

That’s compared to winning between 54% and 56% of the Senate (depending upon how the last two races in Alaska and Mississippi shake out).

It looks as though Democrats will have gained somewhere around 50 seats by the time all races are settled.

If they win the 259 seats where they’re currently ahead, it would be a net gain of 44 seats.

That would be the third-largest gain in the past half-century, behind 2010 (Republicans gained 63 seats) and 1994 (Republicans gained 54).

It would also surpass Democrats’ biggest recent midterms: the 2018 election (41 seats) and the 2006 election (31 seats).

But drilling into the details, the number of seats flipped might be even more significant than all of those.

The GOP flipped so many seats in 2010 in large part because Democrats had such a big majority after the 2008 election. That meant Republicans had lots of low-hanging fruit in conservative-leaning territory to go after.

Republicans were also chipping away at a nearly 260-seat Democratic majority in the 1994 election.

By contrast, the 2026 election began with nearly an even split in the House: Republicans at 220 districts to Democrats’ 215. Democrats were also contending with the fact that Republicans redrew several of their maps to give themselves more conservative-leaning territory (it didn’t work).

The other big metric here is the popular vote. Currently, Democrats lead by about 12 percentage points — a margin which could grow in the coming days as more votes are reported, especially from western, Democratic-leaning states.

There are some caveats with that. It’s skewed somewhat by the fact that California’s top-two primary system means that a handful of races are Republicans-versus-Republican and Democrat-versus-Democrat — rather than having all 435 districts include votes for both major parties.

But it’s still overall a good measure.

This will mark only the second time since 1982 that a party won the House popular vote by double digits — with the other one being the Obama election of 2008 (an 11-point Democratic margin), according to data from the Brookings Institution.

And the last time either party won the House popular vote by at least 13 points was in the post-Watergate election of 1976.

Ex-Alaska lawmaker details mystery recruiter as FBI, Congress widen ‘Decoy Dan’ scrutiny

November 5, 2026 4:32pm EST / Fox News

A former Alaska Republican lawmaker told Fox News Digital the FBI interviewed him after an apparent Democratic political operative allegedly posed as a conservative recruiter and tried to persuade him to enter the state’s U.S. Senate race amid an intensifying congressional investigation into the controversial “Decoy Dan Sullivan” ballot scheme.

The allegations raise questions about potential federal criminal liability. Article III Project attorney Will Chamberlain argued that a coordinated effort to deceive voters about a candidate’s identity could violate 18 U.S.C. § 241, the federal conspiracy-against-rights statute.

The revelations come after former campaign staff for Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola spoke to the New York Times about their knowledge of a reported scheme to stack Alaska’s four-person ballot with other “Dan Sullivans” to help siphon votes from incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan.

MARY PELTOLA’S CAMPAIGN, DEMS BACKED COVERT SCHEME TO FIELD SPOILER CANDIDATES IN ALASKA SENATE RACE: REPORT

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Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and former Rep. Mary Peltola, D-Alaska.(Andrew Harnik/Getty Images; Nathaniel Wilder/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The ballot ultimately included Peltola, incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, Republican Gerald Heikes and retired Petersburg teacher Dan J. Sullivan. Whether the similarly named candidate diverted votes or affected the outcome remains unproven.

Chamberlain told Fox News Digital the alleged operation could constitute a federal felony if prosecutors establish that participants conspired to interfere with voters’ constitutional rights.

PELTOLA CAMPAIGN’S ALLEGED DAN SULLIVAN SPOILER PLOT TAKES NEW TURN AS DOJ FACES MAJOR LEGAL HURDLE

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Dan J. Sullivan, who filed to run for U.S. Senate in Alaska, poses for a photo in Petersburg, Alaska, on June 26, 2026.(Katie Holmlund/Associated Press)

“The basic concept is you’re not allowed to conspire to injure or harm people’s constitutional rights. And one of those rights is to vote for the candidate of your choice,” Chamberlain said.

“These people conspired to put a fake ‘Decoy Dan’ Sullivan on the ballot in order to trick people who were going into the ballot box intending to vote for the incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan,” he alleged. “There’s a lot of good precedent on this that suggests that’s a crime and a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison.”

Chamberlain cited historical cases involving ballot manipulation, while acknowledging that the precise circumstances of recruiting a same-name candidate have not previously been addressed in an identical case.

“Nothing exactly like this has happened before in the sense of recruiting a same-name candidate to trick people in the ballot box,” he said, adding that a lot of slanted electoral messaging is not illegal.

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“If you want to pretend that another Republican is better than the current incumbent or pretend that the incumbent’s not running and then persuade someone to vote for that candidate, that’s not a ‘conspiracy against rights’ because the right to vote for the candidate of your choice has not been impinged upon,” he said.

“It’s the fact that when you’re conspiring to put two people with the exact same name on the ballot to trick people who are going in there intending to vote for the incumbent and get them to vote for somebody else by deception.”

Meanwhile, former state Rep. David Eastman, a Republican from the Matanuska-Susitna Valley, told Fox News Digital by phone from Wasilla that he was approached by an operative under what he later surmised were false pretenses to recruit him into the race. Eastman said he also received several “fake mailers” suggesting “Decoy Dan” Sullivan was the real or only Sullivan in the race.

The mailers, shared with Fox News Digital, are framed in a “meet the candidates” format and do omit Senator Sullivan.

Eastman told Fox News Digital he was approached in the Mat-Su by an operative he later identified in a blog post as Jerid Kurtz, who was named in the New York Times report. Eastman said the operative claimed to represent conservative donors and encouraged him to run for Senate.

“He approached me through a constituent. I sat down with him in April here in Wasilla,” Eastman said.

“He pretended to represent conservative donors and was looking for conservative candidates to run for federal office; none of which was true,” Eastman added.

Eastman alleged Kurtz “pretended” to represent conservative donors and used a false name, but said the operative never mentioned either Sullivan or disclosed an intention to confuse voters during their meeting.

Fox News Digital reached out to the DSCC, Peltola’s campaign and Wingspan Strategies — where Kurtz is named in congressional documents as a co-owner — for comment. Dan J. Sullivan reportedly “vanished” as investigators began knocking on doors in his remote community, according to the Wall Street Journal.

The allegations come as federal investigators examine whether Democratic political operatives improperly recruited Dan J. Sullivan in an effort to confuse voters who intended to support Senator Sullivan.

The controversy has also reached Capitol Hill. In an October 29 letter, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman James Comer, R-Ky., requested that Kurtz appear for an in-person transcribed interview on November 6 concerning allegations that operatives associated with Mary Peltola’s campaign sought to recruit similarly named candidates to confuse voters.

“As a Democrat operative who was allegedly tasked with assisting in this effort, you have information that will assist the Committee’s investigation,” Comer wrote.

“If you do not voluntarily appear for the interview, we will be forced to evaluate the use of compulsory process,” he warned.

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Eastman said Kurtz did not mention either Sullivan or disclose an effort to confuse voters during their April meeting. He nevertheless questioned the operative’s intentions after subsequent reporting connected Kurtz to the alleged candidate recruitment effort.

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Eastman also confirmed the FBI has interviewed him. Fox News Digital reached out to the bureau for comment.

DeSantis nukes ‘tech guy’ Vivek after Ohio drubbing: ‘Not in tune’ with blue-collar voters

The Florida governor argued Ramaswamy’s tech background and H-1B visa stance doomed his gubernatorial campaign

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Published November 5, 2026 4:47pm EST

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Vivek Ramaswamy addressed supporters at GOP headquarters in Columbus after the gubernatorial race was called for Democrat Amy Acton.

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Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis blasted failed Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and his GOP handlers, arguing on a podcast that he wasn’t “in tune” with the working-class people of the state.

Biotech entrepreneur Ramaswamy lost his scandal-plagued race to Democratic candidate Amy Acton by 7.9 percentage points. Despite President Donald Trump’s endorsement and guidance from Vice President JD Vance’s top advisers, Ramaswamy lost amid a “blue wave” that produced major Democratic upsets across the country. The midterm elections were widely viewed as a referendum on Trump’s presidency.

But DeSantis, who ran for president in 2024 and is term-limited after 2026, shared on the Sage Steele Show that Ramaswamy bore some responsibility for his loss.

“I don’t know why they would have pushed him to be the candidate there. Oh, my mom’s from Youngstown. Ohio is a working class state, very blue collar. You know Vivek, he’s like a tech guy,” DeSantis said.

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Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during a campaign rally on February 25, 2025, at the Glass City Center in Toledo, Ohio.(Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Ramaswamy, who previously ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, is the founder of biotech company Roivant Sciences and anti-ESG investment firm Strive Asset Management. He also briefly co-led President Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency with Elon Musk.

He was warmly embraced by Trump, who endorsed him the same day Ramaswamy announced his candidacy. Trump had previously encouraged Ramaswamy to consider seeking Vance’s former Senate seat. Ramaswamy and Vance have known each other since their time at Yale Law School.

DeSantis criticized Ramaswamy’s support for a merit-based H-1B visa system, arguing that it likely further distanced him from Ohio’s blue-collar voters. Ramaswamy had said the current lottery-based system should be “gutted.”

‘He wants to bring in foreign workers on visas. That is not the type of person that’s going to sell.” DeSantis said.

Ramaswamy’s own companies have used the H-1B program, with Roivant Sciences having 29 H-1B applications approved between 2018 and 2023.

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Meanwhile, Strive Asset Management, the investment firm he co-founded, moved its headquarters from Columbus to Dallas in 2025, months before Ramaswamy launched his campaign for Ohio governor. Ramaswamy said he was no longer involved in the company’s operations, but remained a major shareholder.

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“And I know he shot himself in the foot,” DeSantis said. “I know he did a lot of other stuff to make it a real landslide against him. But even with that, it’s like you know you got to meet the voters where they are on some of this stuff,” DeSantis said. “I think we would have done better in Ohio had we had a candidate that was more representative or more in tune with the interests of kind of these blue collar people that make the backbone of Ohio.”

Just weeks before the election, Ramaswamy’s campaign drew bipartisan outrage for using Democratic Gov.-elect Amy Acton’s estranged mother in an attack ad that called the Democratic candidate a “liar” and disputed her account of childhood poverty and homelessness.

The ad omitted that Acton had not seen or spoken to her mother since age 12, when her stepfather was arrested on charges of raping her. He pleaded not guilty but fled the area before trial, and court records show authorities continued seeking his arrest for years. Acton’s brother has said their mother remained married to him until his death in 2004.

Ramaswamy’s loss, alongside Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Husted’s loss to Democratic candidate Sherrod Brown by 4.9 percentage points, came just two years after Trump won the state by 11.2 percentage points.

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Amy Acton, former director of the Ohio Department of Health and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, meets with local residents while campaigning at Bottoms Up Coffee in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday, April 6, 2026.(Stephen Zenner/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

In addition to criticizing Ramaswamy, DeSantis took aim at Congress, saying Republicans are now on the “defensive” and faulting lawmakers for failing to codify Trump’s executive orders into law.

“Last night’s elections did not only kneecap the last two years of the Trump administration, it basically ensures the four years after that are going to either be Democrat years where they have a trifecta or where you have a Republican president that is hemmed in and limited,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis also pushed back against any 2028 speculation.

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“The only way that I would run for any office is if you can actually deliver big results,” DeSantis said. “I don’t want to just be a timepiece where I just sit there like a potted plant.”

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Fox News Digital reached out to Ramaswamy for comment.

Elaine Mallon is a writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business covering national politics.