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Vivek Ramaswamy - For Ohio Governor · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy. It's good to have you on the program, sir.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Brian. Good to be out.
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  Speaker 1: Well, we just talked recently. I just want to find
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  Speaker 1: out as we fast approach Tuesday where you will be elected.
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  Speaker 1: Not a lot of talk about it. I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to deviate the attention away from you and your credentials
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  Speaker 1: versus Amy Acton, but your running mate, Rob McCauley, is
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  Speaker 1: a solid guy. I think a lot of my listeners
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  Speaker 1: are painfully aware that it won't be Amy Acton running
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  Speaker 1: the office. It'll probably be her lieutenant governor running mate,
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  Speaker 1: David Pepper. There's some concerns swirling about that, but a
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  Speaker 1: word or two about Rob McCauley?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Rob McCulley is great. It's why I selected him
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  Speaker 2: for this role. He's only 42 years old. He's the
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  Speaker 2: president of the Ohio Senate, and he has been a
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  Speaker 2: champion for bringing down the tax burden in this state.
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  Speaker 2: And it's one of the reasons I chose him, because
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  Speaker 2: he faced the same questions that I faced about my
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  Speaker 2: plan to reduce taxes. People used to ask him, where
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  Speaker 2: do you get the money? And we've now proven it.
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  Speaker 2: We get the money through economic growth. Ohio got $ 1. 6
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  Speaker 2: billion in extra money. revenue this year from bringing down
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  Speaker 2: income taxes over the last several years. So Rob is
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  Speaker 2: a champion of that. And look, it's the first decision
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  Speaker 2: I had to make as the hopefully next governor of
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  Speaker 2: this state was who my running mate would be. I'm
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  Speaker 2: an outsider. I'm somebody who comes at this as an
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  Speaker 2: entrepreneur with fresh solutions. But I needed somebody who understood
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  Speaker 2: the process of legislation. And there's arguably nobody in Ohio
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  Speaker 2: who's been more effective at that at a young age
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  Speaker 2: than Rob. And that's why he's on this ticket with me,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to be working together to work hard
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  Speaker 2: for families. And God forbid if my opponent is elected,
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  Speaker 2: you've got somebody in Amy Acton whose only qualification for
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  Speaker 2: this job was a short-lived stint as health director when
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  Speaker 2: she shuttered our economy, shut down small businesses, shut down
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  Speaker 2: our schools, created many of the problems that are contributing
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  Speaker 2: to higher costs and learning loss today, and has picked
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  Speaker 2: somebody as her running mate, which I think is inexcusable.
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  Speaker 2: for the kind of decision-making she would show as a governor.
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  Speaker 2: So that's why she's not going to win, and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to be in a position, Brian, to lead this
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  Speaker 2: state to greater heights than we've seen and to fight
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  Speaker 2: for families, to have a better life, which is what
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  Speaker 2: this election is about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, at the time of her resignation as medical director,
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  Speaker 1: she cited burnout and then pivoted over to, well, I
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  Speaker 1: couldn't stay on because I'd be violating my Hippocratic Oath,
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  Speaker 1: being a physician, although she never practiced medicine. Hippocratic Oath
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  Speaker 1: is do no harm. Can anyone be more blamed for
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  Speaker 1: the harm that she actually did in shutting down schools
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  Speaker 1: and keeping our children away from an educational opportunity and
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  Speaker 1: all the damage it did to their mental health and
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  Speaker 1: loss of learning? I mean, isn't that in and of
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  Speaker 1: itself doing harm?
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  Speaker 2: I think there has been no public official in the
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  Speaker 2: 21st century who has done more harm to the lives
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  Speaker 2: of Ohioans than Amy Acton in her short stint as
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  Speaker 2: health director of this state. But worst of all, to
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  Speaker 2: top it off, Brian, when she couldn't handle the pressure
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  Speaker 2: to correct course, she quit the job. I will never
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  Speaker 2: quit on the people of this state. We're going to
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  Speaker 2: fight for the people of this state. And this election,
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  Speaker 2: for all of the noise and all of the tension
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  Speaker 2: of an election, this comes down to one very simple question.
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to make your life better? Like, actually, in
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  Speaker 2: a real true sense, who do you believe? is in
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  Speaker 2: a better position to improve your family's life, to put
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  Speaker 2: more money in your pocket, to bring high-paying jobs to
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  Speaker 2: the state, to bring down some of those costs like
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  Speaker 2: property taxes and electric bills and health care costs, where
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  Speaker 2: a governor can make a difference, to provide relief on
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  Speaker 2: those grocery prices and gas prices by putting more money
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  Speaker 2: in your pocket. Who do you think can actually do that?
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  Speaker 2: And I think if everyone looks themselves in the mirror
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  Speaker 2: and then goes out to the polls and votes accordingly—
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  Speaker 2: We are going to win this decisively because it's not
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  Speaker 2: even close. Amy Acton had her shot. She ruined the state.
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  Speaker 2: She caused families to pay the price, and then she
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  Speaker 2: quit on them. By contrast, I've created thousands of jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I've created life-saving medicines. I am ready to fight and
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  Speaker 2: to serve this state. I don't report to anyone else.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have special interests or lobbyists. I'm self-funding. And
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  Speaker 2: that means that I report to the people of this state,
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  Speaker 2: not to special interests. I'm going to fight for you.
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  Speaker 2: But I need the patriots across the state to fight
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  Speaker 2: for us for just five more days so I can
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  Speaker 2: fight for you for four years. And we are going
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  Speaker 2: to next year deliver the biggest property tax cut the
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  Speaker 2: state has ever seen. I want to investigate how those
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  Speaker 2: local dollars have been used in areas where they're more
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  Speaker 2: than doubled. I'm going to launch scrutiny and give the
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  Speaker 2: public transparency they deserve. And speaking of transparency, Brian, there's
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  Speaker 2: an important point. You know, my Democrats like to talk
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  Speaker 2: a big game about government transparency. Do you really believe
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  Speaker 2: that the woman who won't show up to a basic debate,
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  Speaker 2: that won't allow video or audio recording at her events,
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  Speaker 2: that she's going to be the one who's transparent with
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  Speaker 2: the public? I believe in the people of this state.
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  Speaker 2: We're wise people. Ohioans are smart. And I think when
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  Speaker 2: they think about it, who is going to improve your life?
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  Speaker 2: The answer to that in this race is it's me,
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  Speaker 2: not Amy Acton, and I want you to vote accordingly.
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  Speaker 1: Vivek Ramaswamy, Governor Vivek Ramaswamy, what would you consider job one?
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  Speaker 1: You're sworn in. What would be your first priority? If
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  Speaker 1: you could magically make something happen on day one, what
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  Speaker 1: would you identify it to be?
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think it's embarking on the property tax relief
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  Speaker 2: package across the state. Let's get to the details, expose
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  Speaker 2: it for the public, how the public's dollars have been spent,
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  Speaker 2: and then deliver within months the biggest property tax relief
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  Speaker 2: package we've ever seen. And there are some other day
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  Speaker 2: one executive orders, launch Medicaid fraud investigation. Yes. To end
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary city status, including in Cincinnati, to make our streets safer.
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  Speaker 2: But we've got our day one executive orders lined up.
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  Speaker 2: And that puts us, Brian, on a path to taking
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  Speaker 2: this state to the next level, to actually allowing families
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  Speaker 2: to live a safer life, particularly in our cities, and
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  Speaker 2: a more affordable life across the state. Those are things
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  Speaker 2: I know I can deliver on. And God forbid, if
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  Speaker 2: Amy Acton's elected next year, property taxes will more than
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  Speaker 2: double electric bills will more than double in contrast to
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  Speaker 2: cutting both of those things in half. That's the economic
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  Speaker 2: choice on the ballot. And I think every family, you know, as,
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  Speaker 2: as hard as you fight for your family every day,
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  Speaker 2: as hard as you work every day, you deserve a
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  Speaker 2: government and a governor that works as hard and fight
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  Speaker 2: this hard for you. And that's what I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: give you. We just got to get in there to
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  Speaker 2: do it.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely. And before we part coming today, Vivek Ramaswamy, uh, I,
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  Speaker 1: Going back to the data centers, it's all the rage
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  Speaker 1: to be against them. And I understand my belief is
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  Speaker 1: that the opposition to data centers has more to do
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  Speaker 1: with how it's going to impact humanity rather than the
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  Speaker 1: fact that there's a data center in any given location.
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  Speaker 1: But you've always championed data centers bringing their own power,
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  Speaker 1: which is one of the out loud challenges people have.
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  Speaker 1: Are you engaged in outreach with the federal government? Will
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  Speaker 1: you be engaging in outreach? Because my understanding is small
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  Speaker 1: modular reactors, and you and I have talked about this,
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  Speaker 1: is the solution for so many of our energy problems,
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  Speaker 1: but that's going to involve federal regulation reform. Do you
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  Speaker 1: have a plan for that? Have you engaged with, uh,
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  Speaker 1: I was.
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  Speaker 2: At president Trump last night and we're going to get
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  Speaker 2: past the rate payer protection act at the federal level.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to ensure that we're bringing more energy into
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  Speaker 2: our grid. And part of the reason people are paying
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  Speaker 2: more electric bills, Brian is also a lot of out
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  Speaker 2: of state mandates, even via PJM indirectly, uh, for climate
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  Speaker 2: change misguided Green New Deal policies that are causing Ohioans
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  Speaker 2: to pay more in their electric bills. That is a
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  Speaker 2: big part of the hidden cost here, too. So we
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  Speaker 2: need a governor who's going to be assertive, who's going
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  Speaker 2: to put Ohioans first. And I said this last night.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump says his job is to put Americans first.
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  Speaker 2: That's correct. But my job in this state is to
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  Speaker 2: put Ohioans first, to fight for the 12 million people
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  Speaker 2: of this state to have a better life, period. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: That's the whole ballgame.
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  Speaker 2: Safer streets, lower costs, bigger paychecks, better schools. This is
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  Speaker 2: what a governor can deliver. It's not rocket science. It's
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  Speaker 2: just having the will to actually do it. And the
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  Speaker 2: beauty of our country is that this choice, we don't
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  Speaker 2: have to argue about it. This choice belongs to you.
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  Speaker 2: It belongs to us. It belongs to we, the people.
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  Speaker 2: We don't have to complain about it. Just get out
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  Speaker 2: and vote. Early voting is open today. It is open tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: But if you get out there and just take 30
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  Speaker 2: minutes out of your day to get out and vote
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  Speaker 2: and take five more minutes to text five other people
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  Speaker 2: to do the same thing, to remind them, to bug
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  Speaker 2: them if you have to, that's how we protect our state.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want to become a version of what's happening
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  Speaker 2: in Paris or socialist New York City or L.A. or
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  Speaker 2: Minneapolis or Dearborn, Michigan. We don't have to accept this
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  Speaker 2: spread of socialism in Ohio. We can stand for who
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  Speaker 2: we are. We can stand for our state's values. Faith, family, patriotism,
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  Speaker 2: hard work, freedom over socialism and communism, common sense over communism,
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  Speaker 2: economic success for your family, higher paychecks through high-paying jobs
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  Speaker 2: and lower costs through lower property taxes and lower electric bills.
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  Speaker 2: This is common sense. but it's in your hands. And
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  Speaker 2: I think that for those who vote in a presidential year,
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  Speaker 2: but don't always vote in a midterm year, this one
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  Speaker 2: is a fork in the road. It's either it's a
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  Speaker 2: binary choice between going a communist direction or going in
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  Speaker 2: the direction of common sense. That's it. And especially this year, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: it's an emotional year because this is the 250th anniversary
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  Speaker 2: of the birth of the United States of America, the
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  Speaker 2: 250th anniversary of the signing of the greatest mission statement
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  Speaker 2: ever written for a nation, the Declaration of Independence. Our founders,
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  Speaker 2: they staked their lives, their honor, their fortunes. They fought
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  Speaker 2: a revolution. Many of them died. Many of them actually
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  Speaker 2: gave up their entire fortune and their entire treasure to
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice it for this country. so we could enjoy these
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  Speaker 2: freedoms 250 years later. All we have to do to
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  Speaker 2: protect it is get out and vote. And if on
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  Speaker 2: America 250, people don't make the time to do that,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's almost disrespectful to our founders. And the
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  Speaker 2: people of the state love this country. We love our state.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe in the Ohioans in this state to
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  Speaker 2: see through a lot of the standard lies to see
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  Speaker 2: through a lot of the deflections and just ask the question,
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  Speaker 2: who's going to allow you to live a more free life?
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  Speaker 2: Who's going to allow you and your family to live
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  Speaker 2: a higher quality life in Ohio? I know that Rob
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  Speaker 2: McCulley and I and our administration, we're going to deliver
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  Speaker 2: that for you. We just need to get there. And
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  Speaker 2: that means if you get out to vote and get
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  Speaker 2: your family members out to vote and get your colleagues
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  Speaker 2: and neighbors out to vote, that's what we're asking you
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  Speaker 2: to do. And you fight for us for those five
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  Speaker 2: more days. We're going to fight for you for the
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  Speaker 2: next four years. And Ohio will soon be the envy
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  Speaker 2: of Texas and Florida and other states across the country.
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  Speaker 2: That's coming soon. A better life for every family in
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  Speaker 2: this state, starting with lower property taxes, that number one
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  Speaker 2: agenda item. We're ready to deliver. We just got to
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  Speaker 2: win this. And I'm confident we will with your help.
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for having me, Brian. And God bless
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  Speaker 2: everybody listening to this and your families. We're ready to
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  Speaker 2: take this state to the next level.
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  Speaker 1: Dear God, let's pray that you do. Vote Vivek. Vivek
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio. V-I-V-E-K-F-O-R. Ohio.com is where you find the website. Vivek,
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  Speaker 1: I wish you all the luck in the world, my friend.
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  Speaker 1: On to Tuesday and the best of luck.