Keith Faber, Attorney General

What this office decides

Ohio's attorney general is the state's chief lawyer: defends state laws in court, enforces consumer-protection and charity laws, runs the Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and joins or leads multistate lawsuits. The office also decides whether summaries on citizen-initiative petitions are fair and truthful. Four-year term.

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Dossier

Researched 2026-09-23 · Claude Code research agent with web search

Donald Trump: endorsed. Trump posted on Truth Social (Sept. 1, 2026): "It is my Great Honor to endorse America First Patriot, Keith Faber... Keith Faber has my Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Attorney General of Ohio." source

Club for Growth (for) source

Who they are

Keith Faber has served as Ohio Auditor of State since January 2019 and is term-limited from seeking another term in that office; he previously served as Ohio Senate President (2013-2016) and spent a combined 12 years in the Ohio House and Senate (Wikipedia). He is the Republican nominee for Attorney General in 2026, running unopposed in the primary; the seat is open because term-limited Republican Dave Yost left to run for governor, with Gov. DeWine appointing Andy Wilson to fill the remainder of the term (search snippet, Signal Ohio).

Positions

Crime & policing: Campaign emphasizes "safeguarding neighborhoods from crime, tackling the drug epidemic, and supporting law enforcement" (Faber campaign site).
Business & regulation: As Senate President he championed "reducing state spending, cutting taxes, and increasing government transparency," including cutting state regulatory filings and the small-business tax rate (Faber campaign site; Wikipedia).
Personal freedom: States he has "fought to protect the sanctity of life" and to "preserve the Second Amendment rights of Ohioans" (Faber campaign site).
Voting rules: Trump's endorsement statement says Faber will "advance election integrity," though this is Trump's characterization rather than a direct Faber quote (Trump's Truth, archived post).
Party politics in courts and agencies: No public position found.

Record

As Auditor, Faber's Special Investigations Unit had secured "165 convictions on 376 criminal charges, resulting in 284 findings for recovery totaling $28,667,204" as of August 2026, and his office identified extensive unemployment fraud during the COVID-19 pandemic, including improper payments to prisoners and deceased people (Wikipedia). As Senate President he prioritized cutting the state income tax and the small-business tax rate (Wikipedia).

Money

A mid-June 2026 filing showed $149,002 raised and $2.54 million cash on hand; in the following period he raised about $483,000, below Kulewicz's roughly $570,000, but retained a large cash lead of about $2.46 million built largely from past campaigns (search snippet, Ohio Capital Journal - page could not be read). Tracked via Ohio Secretary of State filings.

Recent news

2025-08-27: Club for Growth issued its first 2026 Ohio endorsement, backing Faber and calling him "a leading voice for fiscal transparency and school choice" (Statehouse News Bureau).
2026-09-01: Donald Trump endorsed Faber on Truth Social, saying he has Trump's "Complete and Total Endorsement to be the next Attorney General of Ohio" (Trump's Truth).
2026 (primary, ~May 5): Ran unopposed in the Republican primary and advanced to face Kulewicz (Wikipedia).

What we couldn't find

An Ohio Capital Journal article on AG candidates and partisanship in the office returned "403 Forbidden" on fetch; could not confirm Faber's specific comments on nonpartisanship.
No detailed position on voting-rules mechanics (ID laws, mail voting) beyond Trump's general "election integrity" framing.
Exact 2026 primary vote share for Faber.

Sources (7)