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Vivek Ramaswamy - For Ohio Governor · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: It's 8.06, and it's a happy Friday. All Fridays are
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  Speaker 1: happy to a certain degree. Some less than others, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of folks are having a little bit of concern, angst,
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  Speaker 1: and anxiety over Tuesday. We've all got the memo about
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  Speaker 1: the blue wave that's coming our way. I talk to
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  Speaker 1: so many people about this. How do you feel about it?
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  Speaker 1: It's never going to happen. There's no way. The Republicans
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  Speaker 1: are going to show out in huge numbers. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to beat this back. The Democrats aren't engaged. They're not
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  Speaker 1: all socialists. They don't embrace this. But then everybody's pissed
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  Speaker 1: off about inflation and the price of gasoline. I just
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  Speaker 1: keep going back to the reality that the Democrats brought you,
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  Speaker 1: by virtue of legislation, expensive gasoline. It was worse before
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  Speaker 1: than it is now. At least now it's just a
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  Speaker 1: question of economics causing it. Welcome back to the 55KRC
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  Speaker 1: Morning Show. Vote Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday. If you haven't
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  Speaker 1: voted already, dear God, please save us from Governor Amy Acton,
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  Speaker 1: which even saying it out loud gives me a bit
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  Speaker 1: of nausea. Welcome back. Vivek Ramaswamy. Find him online at vivek4ohio. com.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to have you on one more time.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be on, Brian. How are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing fine. Last, you know, hours, basically days in
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  Speaker 1: essence of the campaign. How are you feeling about it
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  Speaker 1: right now? I keep talking to people, Vivek, who are,
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  Speaker 1: they're either, there's no way the blue wave is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, or more of them, and I emphasize more
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  Speaker 1: of them, are like, we are screwed on Tuesday. It's
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  Speaker 1: not going to be a beautiful day to wake up
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  Speaker 1: to on Wednesday. Where is Vivek Ramaswamy? And please try
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  Speaker 1: to talk those folks off the ledge.
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  Speaker 2: Look, I think it's going to be a great day.
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  Speaker 2: I think we are on track. The people of the
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  Speaker 2: state are wise. And I know that the people of
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  Speaker 2: our state are when we're really under threat for our
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  Speaker 2: way of life. People step up and they get out
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  Speaker 2: and vote. And that's what they're doing. And this is
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  Speaker 2: a fork in the road, Brian. This is not an
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  Speaker 2: ordinary election. This is between common sense and communism. OK,
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  Speaker 2: this is what's on the ballot. You look at what's
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  Speaker 2: happening in Paris. or New York City, which is under
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  Speaker 2: socialist rule, or L.A., or Minneapolis, or even Dearborn, Michigan,
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  Speaker 2: just to the north of us, we can't let that
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  Speaker 2: come to Ohio. And that choice belongs to us, to you,
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  Speaker 2: to we the people. And it is a choice about
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  Speaker 2: fighting for your family, about who's going to actually make
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  Speaker 2: your family's life better. I'm running against a woman who
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  Speaker 2: is probably the public official that's caused more damage to
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  Speaker 2: the lives of Ohioans than anyone else in the 21st century.
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  Speaker 2: She quit the job. It turns out that's the longest
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  Speaker 2: job she's ever held. I do not believe Ohioans are
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  Speaker 2: going to be anywhere close to rewarding that failure with
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  Speaker 2: a promotion. Someone who compares the law enforcement to the KKK,
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  Speaker 2: as we see a broader socialist, communist, anti-rule of law
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  Speaker 2: epidemic spreading across the country in the West. I think
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  Speaker 2: people in Ohio have great common sense We're smart people.
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  Speaker 2: We're wise people. We're going to get it right. And
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  Speaker 2: for my part, Brian, we just released this morning, we're
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  Speaker 2: already drafting up the day one executive orders. We already
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  Speaker 2: have the team ready to go. We're ready to execute
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  Speaker 2: for Ohioans to bring down property costs, property tax costs immediately,
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  Speaker 2: bring down electric bills immediately, initiate the waste, fraud, abuse investigations,
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  Speaker 2: as well as prosecutions immediately to save on health care costs.
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  Speaker 2: This morning, we just put out the top seven executive
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  Speaker 2: orders I'm signing before midnight on January 11th in detail.
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  Speaker 2: We are ready to execute. We're ready to start early
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  Speaker 2: to deliver big time on lower costs, including lower property
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  Speaker 2: taxes and electric bills, big time on combating crime, ending
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  Speaker 2: sanctuary cities, including Columbus, but also Cleveland and Cincinnati across
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  Speaker 2: the state. We're ready to execute. And I think that's
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  Speaker 2: what Ohioans are ready for. And that's why I feel great.
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  Speaker 2: Heading into Tuesday, we're going to be coming out with
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  Speaker 2: a victory.
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  Speaker 1: I am so pleased to hear that. I know you've
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  Speaker 1: been enthused from the get-go, and of course, there is
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  Speaker 1: no question, there are just, there's a sea of difference
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  Speaker 1: in terms of the qualifications for the job, which I
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  Speaker 1: keep going back to, but let me just put A
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  Speaker 1: finer point on this, because I have been critical of
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump, and I was at the time he uttered it,
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  Speaker 1: I will bring down inflation day one. Now, I hear
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  Speaker 1: something like that, and I know no human being is
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  Speaker 1: capable of doing that. There are so many other factors
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  Speaker 1: outside of the realm of even the presidential office to
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  Speaker 1: deal with to bring down inflation just generally. So with
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  Speaker 1: that springboard, the question I want to ask you, you
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  Speaker 1: said day one, I will bring down electric bills. I
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  Speaker 1: know my listeners would love to hear how you're going
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  Speaker 1: to accomplish that, because I pay an outrageous electric bill,
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  Speaker 1: and it just keeps going up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, look. Look, it's a good question, Brian, but the
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  Speaker 2: important thing is if you're looking carefully to my commentary,
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  Speaker 2: I am commenting directly on things that are a consequence
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  Speaker 2: of policies that the state, specifically the governor, can actually set.
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  Speaker 2: I don't believe in making false promises. I'm making the
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  Speaker 2: promises I can directly keep. Property taxation is directly a
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  Speaker 2: consequence of government-created policy. So what I've said, we put
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  Speaker 2: it in the announcement this morning. On day one, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to start investigations of any locality where property taxes
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  Speaker 2: have more than doubled to provide a public accounting of
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  Speaker 2: how those dollars have been spent. Right now, in many cases,
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  Speaker 2: it's a bit of a mystery. It's opaque because school
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  Speaker 2: performance has gone down while property taxes have doubled in
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  Speaker 2: those very regions. So that transparency and sunlight is going
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  Speaker 2: to be the first step to a legislative solution here
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  Speaker 2: to roll the property tax rate and base down. back
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  Speaker 2: to where it was pre-pandemic. That's common sense. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: our schools are performing better then. And if there are
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  Speaker 2: that are really necessary, we're not going to leave police,
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  Speaker 2: fire or local schools holding the bag. There's models for
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  Speaker 2: statewide backstops. But that is a practical solution that delivers
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  Speaker 2: the biggest property tax relief package to homeowners across the state.
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  Speaker 2: That's real money in your pocket. That's a real difference
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  Speaker 2: for being able to afford costs elsewhere in your life.
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  Speaker 2: Electricville is very same story. Ohio's part of PJM, okay?
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  Speaker 2: And I think Ohio has not been assertive enough in
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  Speaker 2: standing for Ohioans' cost interest in PJM. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of out-of-state interests, Democrat, left-leaning interests that effectively impose costs
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  Speaker 2: over the years through climate change policies, through Green New
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  Speaker 2: Deal policies that change the energy mix that feeds that grid. Well,
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  Speaker 2: guess who ends up paying for it? Ohioans do. Homeowners do.
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  Speaker 2: And can the governor make a difference there? You're darn
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  Speaker 2: right we can if You're willing to actually fight for Ohioans' interests.
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  Speaker 2: My job isn't to fight for climate change policies. My
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  Speaker 2: job is to lower costs by increasing supply of energy
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  Speaker 2: and by producing more energy in Ohio and reasserting ourselves
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  Speaker 2: to fix a few tweaks in our relationship with PJM
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  Speaker 2: and provide alternatives for people in Ohio, bringing nuclear energy
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  Speaker 2: to the state as well. These are areas where I know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't think, I know I can make a difference
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  Speaker 2: as a governor to slash your electric bills in half,
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  Speaker 2: to bring down the property tax rates in many parts
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  Speaker 2: of this state by half. These are practical solutions that
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  Speaker 2: we have day one plans, we're ready to execute on.
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  Speaker 2: But here, Brian, this is the choice, because God forbid
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  Speaker 2: if Amy Acton, okay, the woman who failed this state
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  Speaker 2: once and then quit, who's never held a job for
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  Speaker 2: more than two years, now seeking a four-year position as governor,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid if she's ever governor, you mark this very
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  Speaker 2: carefully to understand the stakes. Your property taxes are on
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  Speaker 2: track to continue to double over the next 18 to
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  Speaker 2: 24 months, if not the next year. Your electric bills
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  Speaker 2: will double over the course of the next 12 to
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  Speaker 2: 24 months. That's just the trajectory we're headed on, especially
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  Speaker 2: with the plans that she has laid out to the
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  Speaker 2: extent you could even call them that. So that's the
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  Speaker 2: choice on the ballot. Do you want your property taxes
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  Speaker 2: and electric bills cut by half, or do you want
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  Speaker 2: them to double? Do you want to combat crime in
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  Speaker 2: the streets of our cities, including my hometown of Cincinnati?
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  Speaker 2: Or do you want to compare law enforcement to the KKK,
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  Speaker 2: as she did last year, letting crime run rampant? Do
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  Speaker 2: you want to end sanctuary city status? Or do you
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  Speaker 2: want to effectively let this scourge of illegal behavior, including
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  Speaker 2: illegal immigration, continue in Ohio? That is the choice on
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  Speaker 2: the ballot. And I believe in the wisdom of the
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  Speaker 2: people of our state, our founders first. fought a revolution,
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  Speaker 2: so we could self-govern. So it's up to us. And
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  Speaker 2: on this 250th anniversary, the question is, what are you
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  Speaker 2: willing to do to fight for your state, to fight
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  Speaker 2: for your family, to fight for your kids, fight for
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  Speaker 2: your grandkids, and fight for our country? All you have
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  Speaker 2: to do is get out and vote and take as
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  Speaker 2: many people with you and force as many other people
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  Speaker 2: in your family and friend group to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 2: And if you all do your part, I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: do mine. We're going to lead this state to greater
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  Speaker 2: heights than we've ever seen. I truly believe that deep
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  Speaker 2: in my bones. We have a positive vision for the
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  Speaker 2: state and plans to execute on it. But I do
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  Speaker 2: worry that, God forbid, if a leftist like Amy Acton
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  Speaker 2: were to come to power, it's part of a socialist
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  Speaker 2: wave spreading across our country. It'll be an economic devastation
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  Speaker 2: for Ohio. CEOs who are looking at Ohio as a
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  Speaker 2: place for investment have already told me they would go elsewhere. if,
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  Speaker 2: God forbid, Amy Acton came anywhere near the levers of power.
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  Speaker 2: And I hate to say it, but that makes sense.
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  Speaker 2: Because if you're in their shoes, you would look at
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  Speaker 2: it the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Well, who would know more than you, a person who's
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  Speaker 1: done business in the state of Ohio since you were
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  Speaker 1: a young man? I mean, this is your hometown here
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  Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. You built the business in Ohio, and you
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  Speaker 1: understand the challenges and the impediments to be able to
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  Speaker 1: effectively grow a business for the benefit of everybody in Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: That's right. And look, I've signed in front of a paycheck, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: not just the back of one. I've created thousands of jobs.
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  Speaker 2: I do know how to bring economic growth as a
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  Speaker 2: governor to this state. And I'm excited to do that.
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  Speaker 2: That's going to lift all of us up. Bigger paychecks,
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  Speaker 2: more jobs coming into the state, combined out with reducing
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  Speaker 2: the property tax burden, reducing electric bill burdens, and also
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  Speaker 2: even cutting red tape that stops new home construction for
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  Speaker 2: young people. I mean, that's another one, too, to help
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  Speaker 2: our workforce stay here, make home ownership more affordable, even
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  Speaker 2: on the front end. If you're building more of those
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  Speaker 2: starter homes, 1,600, 1,700, 1,800 square foot starter homes on
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  Speaker 2: a quarter or third of an acre plot, that's a
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  Speaker 2: great starting point. the American dream. Those are the homes
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  Speaker 2: that aren't getting built, which is why the average age
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  Speaker 2: of a first-time homebuyer in Ohio is now 41 years old.
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  Speaker 2: Think about that. I'm 41, Brian, and hopefully in a
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  Speaker 2: week I'll be the governor-elect. the age of the first-time
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  Speaker 2: homebuyer should not be the same age as the governor
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  Speaker 2: of the state. But we can fix these problems. And
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  Speaker 2: so these are areas, to your earlier point, where it
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  Speaker 2: turns out a governor can actually make even a bigger
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  Speaker 2: difference than a federal leader, even a U.S. president, when
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  Speaker 2: it comes to those core areas of property taxes, electric bills,
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  Speaker 2: even housing costs. I know I can make a difference here,
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  Speaker 2: but we've got to get elected to do it. And
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  Speaker 2: that requires, if you haven't gotten out to vote, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: early voting is open today. You guys can just get
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  Speaker 2: out and go today to cast the vote and just
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  Speaker 2: get your friends and family to do it, too. Take
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  Speaker 2: responsibility for that. And if you do that, you should
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  Speaker 2: hold me accountable to deliver on everything that I'm telling
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  Speaker 2: you we're going to do for you starting in January.
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  Speaker 1: Well, go to Vivek Ramasamy on Facebook. You can see
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  Speaker 1: the day one executive orders and read every one of them,
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  Speaker 1: which includes, for all my friends out there waiting for
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  Speaker 1: a responsible steward with the taxpayer dollars, Executive Order No. 4,
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  Speaker 1: direct Department of Medicaid to investigate waste, fraud, and abuse.
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  Speaker 1: That'll inure to our benefit. And again, you're looking out
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  Speaker 1: for the taxpayer dollars that we have no control over
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  Speaker 1: once they're gone out of our pockets. Vivek Ramaswamy. Go
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  Speaker 1: to Vivek4Ohio to check out the campaign website. Again, Vivek
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  Speaker 1: Ramaswamy on Facebook. Multiple places to find this. I wish
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  Speaker 1: you all the best, sir. I truly do. I am
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  Speaker 1: praying for the state of Ohio that you are our
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  Speaker 1: next governor.
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  Speaker 2: Get out and vote, and we can make it happen.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, sir. Thank you very much. 818.
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  Speaker 2: F55KR.