UPDATE:

The location for this year’s Lawrence County Republican Party Lincoln Day dinner has been changed again.

The dinner, set for 6 p.m. on March 31, will now take place at Stone Creek Farms in Ironton.

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This year’s Lawrence County Republican Party Lincoln Day dinner is relocating.

The dinner was originally slated for South Point High School, where it has taken place for the past 18 years, but is being moved to Ohio University Southern, where it will take part in the Vern Riffe building, Mary Cogan with the county party, said.

This year’s event will feature gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and will take place at 6 p.m.

The event is sold out, and Cogan said that took place in record time this year.

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Will headline Lawrence GOP dinner on March 31

SOUTH POINT — Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy will make one of his early campaign stops in Lawrence County.

Ramaswamy will be the keynote speaker for the county Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day dinner on March 31, set for South Point High School.

The dinner serves as a fundraiser for the party in Lawrence County and organizers said on Friday that the event has already sold out for this year.

Ramaswamy will face Ohio Attorney General David Yost in the 2026 primary for governor. On the Democratic side, former Ohio Director of Health Amy Acton has announced her candidacy.

Ramaswamy, the Cincinnati-born biotech entrepreneur who departed the Department of Government Efficiency initiative on President Donald Trump’s first day, launched his bid last week with promises to institute work requirements for Medicaid and merit pay for all public school teachers and administrators.

Ramaswamy, 39, kicked off his campaign in Cincinnati, joining the 2026 Republican primary just a month after presumed front-runner and then-Lt. Gov. Jon Husted left the running to take a U.S. Senate appointment.

Ramaswamy sought the GOP nomination for president in 2024 before dropping out to back Trump, who later tapped him to co-chair the efficiency initiative with billionaire Elon Musk. A near-billionaire himself, Ramaswamy has promoted his ties to Trump as he lines up key endorsements and donors in the governor’s race. The president posted his endorsement of Ramaswamy last week on social media.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.