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Vivek Ramaswamy - For Ohio Governor · Brian Thomas

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  Speaker 1: Six here at fifty five KRC DE talk station. By
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  Speaker 1: Time's wishing you a very very happy Wednesday, inviting you
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  Speaker 1: to listener, Launch Price, sil Chiley and welcoming back to
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  Speaker 1: the fifty five KRC Morning Show. The next Governor of
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  Speaker 1: the State of Ohio, Vive Ramaswamy. Mister Ramaswamy, it is
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  Speaker 1: a distinct pleasure to have you on the program. Welcome back,
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  Speaker 1: my friend.
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  Speaker 2: Great to be on. Just finished morning drop off for
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  Speaker 2: the kids at school, and no way, no better way
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  Speaker 2: to start the day than catch up with you, Brian.
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  Speaker 1: I appreciate that, and good for you being a father
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  Speaker 1: that you're supposed to be. You don't delegate that responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: You're taking the kids to school. That's great and I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad to hear it. And probably you're insisting on a
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  Speaker 1: great education, are you. Are they involved in the classical education?
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  Speaker 1: I hate to bring that up out of nowhere, vv, but.
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  Speaker 2: So they're very young, I mean, my my youngest one's three, oh,
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  Speaker 2: that's five. But we have we have toured a number
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  Speaker 2: of the classical schools, and particularly in Columbus, and I
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  Speaker 2: have been impressed. Right they think about the ways in
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  Speaker 2: which our traditional academic standards and educational standards have gradually
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  Speaker 2: declined in the last thirty years, and you see a
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  Speaker 2: lot of these innovative approaches, including classical education. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're incorporating Singapore math, They're incorporating classical approaches even from
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  Speaker 2: studying even ancient languages. I think these are important for
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  Speaker 2: young people to develop in the modern world. And that's
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  Speaker 2: a longer conversation we can have.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, not to dwell on this too much, because
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  Speaker 1: we want to talk with Turning Point in USA and
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  Speaker 1: how your campaign's going. But I know part of your
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  Speaker 1: campaign involves helping and helping young people excel in math
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  Speaker 1: and reading and critical thinking. And I have to ask
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  Speaker 1: you just straightforward, because I am literally frightened for America
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  Speaker 1: when I see the public education proficiency scores. When I
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  Speaker 1: read about college educated students, or rather high school educated
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  Speaker 1: students to get into college and they can't even manage
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  Speaker 1: eighth grade level mathematics, yet they graduated within a and
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  Speaker 1: got a diploma. I mean, I weep for the future
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  Speaker 1: of our country. And part of me makes me, part
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  Speaker 1: of this makes me think that this is something nefarious.
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  Speaker 1: It's almost as if we're raising a nation of idiots
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  Speaker 1: who can be easily manipulated by the morons who are
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  Speaker 1: trying to steer us towards socialism in this country. Sorry
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  Speaker 1: to be so blunt, mister Ramaswami.
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  Speaker 2: Well, especially as we think about entering an era of
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  Speaker 2: AI and technology and automation, it's all the more important
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  Speaker 2: to have cultivated citizens who are able to think independently
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  Speaker 2: for themselves. And at the end of the day, that responsibility, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: falls on us. Not up to us to blame anybody
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  Speaker 2: else for a nefarious plot. It's up to us to
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  Speaker 2: really step up as parents, as citizens to cultivate the
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  Speaker 2: next generation of young people. You said it well, and
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  Speaker 2: to be honest with you, a lot of people on
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  Speaker 2: the left would get upset at me over the last
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  Speaker 2: half decade when I said about the woke left standards
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  Speaker 2: eroding merit and academic standards. But to be honest, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: when I say it, there may be voices on the
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  Speaker 2: right who are upset to hear the same message. But
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  Speaker 2: the truth hurts because it's true. Wow, students are underperforming
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  Speaker 2: kids in other countries. Seventy five percent of eighth graders
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  Speaker 2: now are not proficient in math, and that's unacceptable. To us.
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  Speaker 2: It's not going to change overnight. But the way I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to change it in Ohio is bringing standards back
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  Speaker 2: to public education. The idea of one hundred percent third
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  Speaker 2: grade literacy as a guarantee for every kid who's medically capable.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to get that done in this state. Numeracy standards,
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  Speaker 2: algebra competence by the end of eighth grade should be
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  Speaker 2: a goal for every student. Civic competence by the time
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  Speaker 2: you graduate from high school. You know, I think every
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  Speaker 2: high school senior who graduates from an Ohio high school
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  Speaker 2: should have to pass the same Civics test that every
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  Speaker 2: legal immigrant has to pass before that immigrant becomes a
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  Speaker 2: naturalized citizen. That's just common sense. And you know this
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  Speaker 2: is controversial, mostly on the left, but even to some
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  Speaker 2: on certain fringes of the right, And it doesn't matter
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  Speaker 2: to me. That's the truth. It's what we have to
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  Speaker 2: stand for, and it is what it means to be
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  Speaker 2: in America, is that we stand for the values of
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  Speaker 2: this country, which include excellence and the pursuit of excellence
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  Speaker 2: is what we're bringing Education.
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  Speaker 1: Well, one bright spot, and I know it was a
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  Speaker 1: tragedy beyond tragedies when Charlie Kirk was murdered. Just horrific,
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  Speaker 1: but at least it lit a fire beneath a lot
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  Speaker 1: of young and I would argue high school and college
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  Speaker 1: age folks to pursue a Turning Point USA chapter. The
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  Speaker 1: number of new chapters has ballooned, and I understand that
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  Speaker 1: we do have one or one is coming to the
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  Speaker 1: city of Cincinnati. I know you wanted to address that
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  Speaker 1: here on the Morning Show.
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I think the idea of young people being
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  Speaker 2: hungry for something greater than what they're being served up
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  Speaker 2: by their culture, that's been true for the last couple
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  Speaker 2: decades in our country. And Charlie Kirk, better than anybody
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  Speaker 2: I know, understood that and provided an alternative vision of citizenship,
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  Speaker 2: an alternative vision of reviving faiths and family and patriotism
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  Speaker 2: and hard work. The last time I saw him was
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  Speaker 2: actually in Ohio, said down for over an hour in
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  Speaker 2: Delaware County, Ohio, one on one when he visited just
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  Speaker 2: two weeks before his assassination. And I do feel some
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  Speaker 2: sense of responsibility as a friend of Charlie's, as somebody
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  Speaker 2: who he actually asked me to serve as the chairman
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  Speaker 2: of the Turning Point pack and some of their affiliated entities,
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  Speaker 2: which I wasn't able to do. But the fact that
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  Speaker 2: he and I traveled the country for so much of
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  Speaker 2: the last year gives me a special sense of mission
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  Speaker 2: to make sure we're continuing to carry out that work
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  Speaker 2: of motivating young people to think independently, to speak their
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  Speaker 2: minds in the open, to remind you this is the
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  Speaker 2: country where we don't always agree on everything, not all
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  Speaker 2: the time, of course we don't, but we could still
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  Speaker 2: disagree vehemently and view ourselves as fellows citizens rather than
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  Speaker 2: enemies to be conquered and win through persuasion, which is
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  Speaker 2: something that we've lost in modern politics, is even the
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  Speaker 2: idea that you could persuade someone rather than to force
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  Speaker 2: them into defeat versus loss. Persuasion is a lost art.
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  Speaker 2: And that's a big part of what Charlie did with
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  Speaker 2: Turning Point and what we're trying to carry on in
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  Speaker 2: our work across these campuses.
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  Speaker 1: And that they very well be the reason the Turning
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  Speaker 1: Point USA chapters strike fear in the hearts of mind
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  Speaker 1: that these liberals, they start pulling their hair out and
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  Speaker 1: screaming in anguish. Oh my god, a Turning Point USA
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  Speaker 1: chapter is coming we need to do everything we can.
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  Speaker 2: To stop it.
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  Speaker 1: They're afraid of that very debate you discuss.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I think that's historically, if you look at
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  Speaker 2: the last half decade, that was definitely true in the
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  Speaker 2: period of peak woke access. I do think that quietly,
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  Speaker 2: if you scratch beneath the Service Brian, people are hungry
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  Speaker 2: for something different than the direction of just the politics
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  Speaker 2: of defeating opposition through silencing, through canceling, through censorship. Now
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  Speaker 2: that era, I think is the peak of that is
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  Speaker 2: behind us, and that most Americans not saying all of them,
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  Speaker 2: but most Americans, even most Democrats, are not really subject
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  Speaker 2: to that woke left mind virus. They're looking to be
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  Speaker 2: liberated from it. And so we're delivering that emancipation. That's
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  Speaker 2: the way I look at it. And you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I don't care whether you're on the left or the right.
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  Speaker 2: We don't believe in this kind of cancel culture. We
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  Speaker 2: don't believe in this kind of victimhood culture. And that's
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  Speaker 2: the message I'm hoping to hoping to deliver tonight. We
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  Speaker 2: were at the University of Cincinnati on Monday night, great discussion,
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  Speaker 2: wholesome conversations. There were students from the left, from the right,
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  Speaker 2: some who are politically undecided, then who are politically uninvolved
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  Speaker 2: want to start businesses, but were interested in what this
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  Speaker 2: turning point chapter had to say. And so that's the message.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to be at Miami University tonight continuing that conversation,
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to keep going and campuses across the
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  Speaker 2: state because I do think young people are looking for direction,
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  Speaker 2: they're looking for purpose. A lot of them are skeptical
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  Speaker 2: right now. That's another thing I see, Brian about the
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  Speaker 2: American dream. They're very cynical about the American dream because
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  Speaker 2: they feel like they've heard about it and yet they're
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  Speaker 2: not quite living it, where home ownership feels a little
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  Speaker 2: bit out of reach. For a lot of those young people,
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  Speaker 2: they got out of college or got out of high school,
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  Speaker 2: thought they got their education and then join a workforce
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  Speaker 2: and a labor market that says, well, you don't really
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  Speaker 2: know the skills that I need you to know to
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  Speaker 2: be useful on the job, and that requires then further training.
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  Speaker 2: And so they're cynical about the American dream. But our
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  Speaker 2: job is to restore and revive that American dream and
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  Speaker 2: confidence in it. And that's what I'm going to do
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  Speaker 2: here in Ohio. That is the number one reason why
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  Speaker 2: I'm in this race. Actually because as a young person
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  Speaker 2: who grew up in the state myself right went to
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  Speaker 2: public schools in Cincinnati through eighth grade, who went to
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  Speaker 2: Saint x for high school, I have lived the American
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  Speaker 2: dream at levels unimaginable to my family even just a
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  Speaker 2: few decades ago. I want to pass that save American
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  Speaker 2: dream onto the next generation of young Ohio and then
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do it.
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  Speaker 1: You will, indeed. Then that's why I have so much
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  Speaker 1: confidence in you your candidacy and encourage my listeners to
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  Speaker 1: help you out along the campaign trail. V vag viv
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  Speaker 1: action center. Click on it, help out, get involved in
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  Speaker 1: the campaign. Add your information there. They'll be happy to
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  Speaker 1: reach out to you and make a campaign contribution if
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  Speaker 1: you can anything you can to help mister Ramaswamy become
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  Speaker 1: the next governor of the state of Ohio, and he
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  Speaker 1: will lead with confidence and we will put Ohio. You
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  Speaker 1: will put Ohio back on the map. I'm confident of that.
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  Speaker 2: In your platform, We're going to make it happen and
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  Speaker 2: it's a team effort to get there, and to tell
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  Speaker 2: you the truth, we're gonna do it in a positive way.
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  Speaker 2: And you know what, by the time we're done, Brian,
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  Speaker 2: we want Texas and Florida to be following Ohio's lead
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  Speaker 2: rather than the other way around. I think we're going
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  Speaker 2: to get there.
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  Speaker 1: That's a hell of an aspiration. Be big, Ramaswamy. Thanks
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  Speaker 1: for the time you spend today. I hope to have
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  Speaker 1: you on as many times as possible between now and
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  Speaker 1: next November. Keep up the great work and good luck
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  Speaker 1: with the event this evening now you too, my friend,
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thanks much. It's eight sixteen here fifty five
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