{ "candidacies": [ { "party": "Republican", "pct": 60.13, "race": "2022-attorney-general", "result": "won", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2022", "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ohio_Attorney_General_election" ], "votes": 2484753 }, { "party": "Republican", "pct": 52.17, "race": "2018-attorney-general", "result": "won", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Ohio_Attorney_General_election" ], "votes": 2276414 }, { "party": "Republican", "pct": 56.98, "race": "2014-auditor", "result": "won", "sources": [ { "accessed": "2026-09-19", "publisher": "Wikipedia", "title": "2014 Ohio State Auditor election", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Ohio_State_Auditor_election" } ], "votes": 1711927 } ], "coverage": { "ballot": { "note": "The 2022 race is complete; no pending candidacy is published for it.", "state": "none-found" }, "claims": { "checked": [ "The research archive's 2022-cycle fact-check pass, which searched PolitiFact's personalities archive, FactCheck.org, the Washington Post Fact Checker and AP Fact Check" ], "note": "No fact-checker rating of a Yost statement from the 2022 cycle was found in the records checked.", "state": "none-found" }, "elections": { "note": "His 2022 Attorney General candidacy is published.", "state": "researched" }, "endorsements": { "note": "The research archive records no endorsement he gave or received in the 2022 cycle in the sources it checked.", "state": "none-found" }, "interests": { "note": "No net-worth figure or itemized stock holding has been published for Yost; Ohio's disclosure system does not post statements online.", "state": "researched" }, "money": { "note": "Ballotpedia's reported total could not be cross-verified against a primary state filing; the Ohio Secretary of State's search tool and FollowTheMoney.org were both unreachable to the research archive.", "state": "researched" }, "polling": "researched", "positions": "researched", "profile": "researched", "record": "researched", "sources": "researched" }, "current_office": "Attorney General of Ohio", "donors": [ { "affiliation": "Owner of Dayton-based NCP Finance, operating as 'Cash Max' and similar payday and vehicle-title lending storefronts", "amount": 47000, "in_state": true, "name": "Lee Schear", "notes": "Cumulative since 2017, spanning the 2018 and 2022 cycles.", "race": "2022-attorney-general", "sources": [ "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2022/10/03/dayton-based-payday-lender-continues-to-bury-customers-in-debt/" ], "vehicle": "campaign" }, { "affiliation": "Co-operates Foundations Health Solutions, 57 Ohio nursing homes, with his wife", "amount": 50000, "in_state": true, "name": "Brian Colleran", "notes": "Reporting window is mostly pre-2022-cycle (2011-2020) but documents an ongoing donor relationship with no reported end before 2022.", "race": "2022-attorney-general", "sources": [ "https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2021/04/19/nursing-homes-spent-at-least-6-million-on-ohio-politics-in-five-years/" ], "vehicle": "campaign" }, { "affiliation": "Electric utility", "amount": 14500, "in_state": true, "name": "American Electric Power PAC", "race": "2018-attorney-general", "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohio_FirstEnergy_bribery_scandal" ], "vehicle": "pac" }, { "affiliation": "Utility holding company", "amount": 5000, "in_state": true, "name": "NiSource Inc. 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Yost's 2018 campaign had received utility-industry PAC contributions. Once the bribery scheme became a federal case, Yost sued in September 2020 to block collection of HB6 fees from ratepayers, and in 2024 his office obtained state felony indictments against two former FirstEnergy executives." } ], "links": { "ballotpedia": "https://ballotpedia.org/Dave_Yost", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Yost" }, "name": "Dave Yost", "net_worth": [], "notes": "P3-03 (2022 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2022.md. P3-03 (2018 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2018.md. P3-03 (2014 cycle). Left out, and why: design/reports/politics/P3-03-2014.md.", "offices": [ { "from": "1999", "how": "elected", "office": "Delaware County Auditor", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Dave_Yost" ], "to": "2003" }, { "from": "2003", "how": "elected", "office": "Delaware County Prosecutor", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Dave_Yost" ], "to": "2011" }, { "from": "2011", "how": "elected", "office": "Auditor of State of Ohio", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Dave_Yost" ], "to": "2019" }, { "from": "2019-01", "how": "elected", "notes": "Reelected in 2022.", "office": "Attorney General of Ohio", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Dave_Yost" ], "to": null }, { "from": "2011-01", "how": "elected", "notes": "Won a first term in 2010 defeating David Pepper; won re-election in 2014.", "office": "Auditor of State of Ohio", "sources": [ { "accessed": "2026-09-19", "publisher": "Ballotpedia", "title": "Dave Yost", "url": "https://ballotpedia.org/Dave_Yost" } ], "to": "2019-01" } ], "outside_spending": [], "party": "Republican", "photo": null, "polling": [ { "date": "2022-08-18", "numbers": { "Crossman": 37, "Undecided": 10, "Yost": 53 }, "pollster": "Trafalgar Group", "race": "2022-attorney-general", "sample": null, "sources": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Ohio_elections" ] }, { "date": "2018-11-01", "numbers": { "Dettelbach": 36, "Yost": 44 }, "pollster": "Gravis Marketing", "race": "2018-attorney-general", "sample": "likely voters", "sources": [ "https://www.wosu.org/news/2018-10-31/ohios-attorney-general-race-all-about-ecot-and-opioids" ] } ], "positions": [ { "date": "2022", "issue": "Abortion", "paraphrase": true, "quote": "Defended and had helped implement Ohio's six-week heartbeat abortion ban and pledged to keep defending Ohio's abortion restrictions in court.", "sources": [ "https://www.statenews.org/government-politics/2022-10-19/ohio-election-2022-dave-yost-and-jeff-crossman-run-for-ohio-attorney-general", "https://www.wosu.org/politics-government/2022-10-19/abortion-and-corruption-at-forefront-of-ohio-attorney-general-race" ], "venue": "Campaign platform, per The Statehouse News Bureau and WOSU" }, { "date": "2022", "issue": "Government corruption", "paraphrase": true, "quote": "Made enforcement against official misconduct central, pointing to his civil racketeering-style lawsuit against FirstEnergy and Larry Householder over the House Bill 6 nuclear and coal bailout, which his office said would save Ohio ratepayers close to $2 billion over the life of the law.", "sources": [ "https://www.fox19.com/2021/09/24/attorney-general-saves-ohioans-nearly-2b-over-life-hb6/" ], "venue": "Office statement, per FOX19/AP" }, { "date": "2018", "issue": "Public corruption", "paraphrase": true, "quote": "Pointed to his auditor's-office record referring the ECOT online charter school for criminal investigation as evidence he would aggressively pursue public corruption and fraud as Attorney General.", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2018" ], "venue": "2018 campaign, per the research archive" }, { "date": "2018", "issue": "Drug sentencing", "paraphrase": true, "quote": "Opposed State Issue 1, the 2018 ballot measure that would have reclassified low-level drug possession as a misdemeanor and prioritized treatment over incarceration.", "sources": [ "https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Attorney_General_election,_2018" ], "venue": "2018 campaign, per the research archive" }, { "date": "2014-01-16", "issue": "Government fraud", "paraphrase": true, "quote": "Launched the \"Ohio Stops Fraud\" smartphone app, letting the public report suspected fraud in public offices directly from an iPhone, ahead of the 2014 campaign.", "sources": [ { "accessed": "2026-09-19", "date": "2014-01-28", "publisher": "Ohio Auditor of State", "title": "Press Conference: Special Audit Results of Columbus City School District", "url": "https://ohioauditor.gov/news/multimedias/Details/23" } ], "venue": "2014 campaign, per the Ohio Auditor of State" }, { "date": "2014-01-28", "issue": "Education oversight", "paraphrase": true, "quote": "Ran on his office's multi-year investigation into Ohio school districts manipulating student-attendance data to inflate state report-card ratings, including a special audit of Columbus City Schools finding \"a top-down culture of data manipulation and employee intimidation.\"", "sources": [ { "accessed": "2026-09-19", "date": "2014-01-28", "publisher": "Ohio Auditor of State", "title": "Press Conference: Special Audit Results of Columbus City School District", "url": "https://ohioauditor.gov/news/multimedias/Details/23" } ], "venue": "2014 campaign, per the Ohio Auditor of State" } ], "record": [ { "date": "2020-08", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/local/ohio/ohio-attorney-general-dave-yost-announces-opioid-settlement-agreement/95-a3ee010b-498f-4e9b-9946-e0cb12760c19" ], "what": "Negotiated an $808 million settlement with the three largest opioid distributors, Cardinal Health, McKesson and AmerisourceBergen, structured so the companies also paid the state's attorney fees on top of the settlement." }, { "date": "2021-02-19", "evaluations": [], "kind": "action", "sources": [ "https://www.irontontribune.com/2021/02/19/ag-yost-reaches-24-7m-settlement-with-consultant-that-fueled-opioid-epidemic/" ], "what": "Secured Ohio's $24.7 million share of a $573 million national settlement with consulting firm McKinsey & Co. over its role in fueling the opioid epidemic." }, { "date": "2022-07-12", "evaluations": [ { "by": "Dave Yost, quoted by FOX19", "said": "not a whisper", "url": "https://www.fox19.com/2022/07/12/not-whisper-evidence-show-10-year-old-ohio-rape-victim-got-abortion-indiana-ag-yost-tells-fox-news/" } ], "kind": "statement", "sources": [ "https://www.fox19.com/2022/07/12/not-whisper-evidence-show-10-year-old-ohio-rape-victim-got-abortion-indiana-ag-yost-tells-fox-news/", "https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/media/abortion-debate-reliable-sources" ], "what": "Before a suspect was arrested, repeatedly and publicly cast doubt on the case of a 10-year-old Ohio rape victim who had to travel to Indiana for an abortion because of Ohio's six-week ban; a Columbus man was charged with the rape within about a day of those comments." }, { "date": "2023-02-03", "evaluations": [], "kind": "ruling", "notes": "Reported after the 2022 cycle but concerns conduct during it: text messages introduced at a February 2023 federal trial.", "sources": [ 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