Vivek Ramaswamy
Vivek Ramaswamy founded the biotech company Roivant Sciences and ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. He was the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio in 2026, with state Senate President Rob McColley as his running mate.
Nick Gillespie said about Vivek Ramaswamy, in The Compleat Nick Gillespie on October 30, 2026.
Libertarian writer Nick Gillespie in his Substack, October 30, 2026, on the Ohio governor's race. The ad he refers to is Ramaswamy's late-campaign ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother.
Sean Hannity said about Vivek Ramaswamy, in The Sean Hannity Show on October 29, 2026.
Sean Hannity, talking with Ramaswamy on his radio show in the final week of the 2026 Ohio governor's race, on Ramaswamy's plan to bring Florida- and Texas-style policies to Ohio.
Right back more with gubernatorial candidate for the GOP, Vivek Ramaswamy from the great state of Ohio, the Buckeye Vote.
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All right, I'll find a moment with Vivek Ramaswamy, Republican gubernatorial candidate from the great state of Ohio, the Buckeye Vote. The irony, too, is Ohio as a state is doing great. And you adopting policies, for example, that have been adopted in my free state of Florida. You know, we used to joke about it, but those are great policies for the people of Ohio.
Absolutely. And I think Florida and Texas, those are great success stories. Ohio has been even a success story, too, but it could be even more successful. We can take Ohio to the next level. That's the opportunity we have. I want to make Ohio one of the top states in the country. And yet the…
How can people get in touch with your campaign?
Go to VivekForOhio.com. That's the easiest way to do it, but at this point, just show up at the polls, and we appreciate that, too. So keep fighting for us for just six more days, and I'm going to fight for you for four more years. To be free, to have a better life, and to have a safer street in…
Scott MacFarlane said about Vivek Ramaswamy, in Scott MacFarlane Reports on October 22, 2026.
MacFarlane was running through the day's campaign developments in his daily editorial note.
David S. Bernstein said about Vivek Ramaswamy, in Good Politics/Bad Politics on October 15, 2026.
Bernstein was criticizing right-wing influencers and the Republican nominees they have helped elevate.
Dave Weigel said about Vivek Ramaswamy, in Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast on October 15, 2026.
Dave Weigel of Semafor on Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, October 2026, after a reporting trip to Youngstown, assessing the Ohio governor's race between Republican Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat Amy Acton.
But are they committed to coming out and voting for Trump because he's going to change everything? They don't think that anymore. They've seen what kind of president he is.
So do you think from being out, do you think that that chariot has a chance? Do you think that what is your sense on the ground there?
…speaker or as dynamic a campaigner as Vivek, but it just has been an easier sell. But Democrats are not saying, nobody was saying, we're really excited to get a bunch of white voters who don't like the Indian candidate. It's more that at this moment in time, Vivek is associated with... the tech industry, which was more popular than it was in, more popular in 2004 than it is now. It's understate. He's on tape saying data centers are great. He wants more in Ohio. And there's below the surface with the vague too, there is, you saw this with Republicans over the last month, our conservative influencers, this kind of anti-immigrant sentiment that is spread far beyond people who crossed the border illegally and are committing crime to H1B holders. You've got the irony of JD Vance being the vice president who's trying to stop the brain drain from India, keep…
But don't you don't you think that if anyone can do it, Sherrod is neatly qualified?
Yes, that was the idea behind recruiting him. So Tim Ryan ran for Senate against J.D. Vance and lost. He lost this area, too, even though this has been the story. No Democrat is able to hold on to Moaning County, Moaning Valley. They win Youngstown, but not by enough. Brown, he has a better…
Right. I mean, it's very hard for them to make that case. What other what other like stories of the midterm are you watching besides Ohio states where you are? You know, where you think Democrats really have a shot, where we might be surprised in Iowa, Kansas or in Alaska or where you don't think…
Astead Herndon said about Vivek Ramaswamy, in America, Actually with Astead Herndon on October 3, 2026.
Astead Herndon, host of America, Actually, reporting from a Vivek Ramaswamy town hall in Parma, Ohio, on how Republican candidates are handling President Trump's unpopularity ahead of the 2026 midterms.
…Capitalism is not a bad word. It is the greatest system we have to lift people up from poverty. There are three branches of government, not four, not the administrative state. And the U.S. Constitution, it is the strongest and greatest guarantor of freedom in human history. That is the truth. And
we stand up for the truth. That is who we are as conservatives. And I want Ohio to be the state that leads our country back to greatness, for us to be the state that Texas and Florida and Tennessee look up to rather than the other way around.
On one hand, I get that his focus is local. It is a governor's race after all. But I still think it's notable that when Ramaswamy talks about things like bringing jobs back to Ohio, he makes no mention of Trump's tariffs. The administration's signature economic policy aimed at regions just like this one.
At the turn of the last century, we were the wealthiest state of the union. We led the first Industrial Revolution. Even in 1950, six of the top 15 wealthiest cities in America were here, Dayton-led in computing. My hometown of Cincinnati was known around the world as the Queen City, the machine…
In fact, I had heard a lot of this speech already. It's basically the same one that Ramaswamy would give back when he was running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
I will still say, as a father of three young kids myself, there is no other country on planet Earth where I would rather have been born and raised. There is no other country on planet Earth where I would rather be raising our kids than this one. There is no other time in human history where I would…
Vivek Ramaswamy writes The Smerconish Podcast . They have also been a guest on Squawk Pod (4 times) , The Peter McCormack Show (3 times) , The Pomp Podcast (3 times) , Capitalisn't (2 times) , Unchained (2 times) , All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg , Lex Fridman Podcast , The Cardone Zone , REAL AF with Andy Frisella , Summation with Auren Hoffman , Real Estate Rockstars Podcast , Bloomberg Tech , Closing Bell , CoinDesk Podcast Network , The Ezra Klein Show , Bloomberg Intelligence , Business Of Biotech , On The Brink with Castle Island , Coin Stories with Natalie Brunell , TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast , Trillions , World Business Report , Better Bad Ideas with Sean O'Brien , The Charlie Kirk Show , Mixed Signals from Semafor Media , What Happens Next in 6 Minutes , The Sean Hannity Show and America, Actually with Astead Herndon .
Recently: “Ohio on the Brink: Vivek, Husted, and the Buckeye Vote” on The Sean Hannity Show (October 2026); “The GOP strategy: Ignore Trump” on America, Actually with Astead Herndon (October 2026); “Fixing the Fickle Base + AMA 280” on The Charlie Kirk Show (September 2026); “Capitalism’s New Low in America 9/8/25” on Squawk Pod (September 2025); “Is Vivek Ramaswamy The Next Governor Of Ohio? | Better Bad Ideas | Ep. 28” on Better Bad Ideas with Sean O'Brien (July 2025); “#1498 Vivek Ramaswamy | Can Bitcoin Save America?” on The Pomp Podcast (March 2025).
Ramaswamy on The Sean Hannity Show, October 28-29, 2026, describing his tax and spending agenda for Ohio.
…early in my free state of Florida. I do it with great confidence. They have mastered it here. And I just got to tell you right now, I have this to say. Is it true, by the way, that she has been a supporter of the group CARE? The one in the Holy Land Foundation case was an unindicted co-conspirator.
Is that her, too?
…promotion. And by the way, she had multiple 911 calls on her, one of which was during her time as health director, that showed that she's just not capable of taking on this job. She ruined the state once. We're not going to let her ruin it again. By contrast, what I want to do is to take some of those best ideas from places like Texas and Florida, Gov. Ohio is the conservative state that we are. I want to make this a zero-income tax state. I want to slash property taxes in this state. I want to produce more energy, put it onto the grid. I want to combat crime and prosecute Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse by the billions. Put that money into the pockets of hardworking Ohioans. That is common sense. It's not about right versus left, even. It shouldn't be. This is just about basic right versus wrong. Common sense over communism. That's what's on the ballot, but we do need... This election can be decided by one thing. We're not going to overnight convince far-left radical lunatics to be able to see the world our way. What we do need is the people who do share our values…
So Billy Cunningham, I've been friends with him for decades, talked about this dirty trick that has been played on you in the final weeks of this campaign. And you ran an ad with Amy Acton's mother. Now, the ad talked about the mother calling the daughter a liar. And she was referring specifically…
Yeah, look, I have and I will again, Sean. The media and the Democratic Party, close to elections especially, they're two sides of the same coin. You know this well. The truth of the matter is they are lying about an ad that was about lying, actually. That's the ultimate irony of this. And the…
Well, if you claim you grew up in a tent and you didn't grow up in a tent, that's a pretty big lie.
Ramaswamy on The Charlie Kirk Show, September 25, 2026, discussing Ohio's Issue 3 photo-ID ballot measure and why he wants states to act ahead of Washington.
So Ohio has a constitutional amendment on the ballot this November. President Trump actually pushed for it. I wrote a piece, again, calling on our legislature at the start of the summer. I said, guys, let's get this on the ballot. And then thanks, you know, credit to them.
They listened.
They got it on the ballot. President Trump pushed them to do the same. They got on the ballot issue three, okay, which is effectively a constitutional amendment that would say you have to have photo ID to vote in Ohio elections, putting it in the state constitution. So that makes it reversal proof. And in a year where we couldn't get the SAVE Act through in Washington, D.C., it's just a perfect contrast and example of what you can do at the state level, whether it's economics, gas tax and the federal government can follow, or whether it's actually putting it in a state level. state constitution where maybe they pass the SAVE Act in the future, but a state can lead the way and let the federal government piggyback rather than the other way around. And I know a lot of folks, independents, even conservatives are often frustrated with what's happening in Washington, D.C., I say let's fix it at the state level. And the way I'm trying to lead, even before I'm elected in Ohio, working with the legislature to get issue three on the ballot, working with our legislature to get this gas tax suspension passed next week, is to lead through action in ways that sort of shows leaders in Washington, D.C., that this can be done. If a state like Ohio does it…
The mire of doing nothing, you know?
Yeah.
No, well said. Vivek Ramaswamy is a dear friend of Charlie's, and Charlie really believed in your political talents, Vivek, so honored to have you here. Vivek, I've got to play some clips. I have not listened to Amy Acton's actual voice very much, and I'm not asking you to chime in here, but I'm…
Ramaswamy, a guest on The Charlie Kirk Show on September 25, 2026, describes how he pushed Ohio legislators to suspend the state gas tax before the election. He says Indiana is the only other state with such a suspension.
…going to do something then. I looked at the situation and say, you know what? We've got the legislature. We've got both branches. Republicans are in control. It's a Republican governor. There's a chance to make a difference now. Someone just needs to really, in some sense, light the catalyst, okay?
So that's what I did.
I got both chambers of the legislature together. I brought leaders together. I'm not elected yet, but I know all these guys. We brought them together and said, let's get the gas tax suspension passed. It's not rocket science because there's one state that actually does have an active gas tax suspension today. It's our neighboring state of Indiana. And if you drive across the border between Ohio and Indiana, last year gas prices were lower in Ohio. But after Indiana adopted this last year, in April of this year, I should say, it's now 47 cents a gallon lower in Indiana. That's a big deal. So…
Well, how much would that actually result in savings for families? And the diesel thing cannot be overstated. We had a rancher call in from, I think it was from Oregon. And he was basically saying diesel, because it's so expensive, is putting him in a, I don't think he was going out of business…
Farmers, truckers, it's a big deal. So sometimes the gas prices have been higher. They haven't been this high since 2022, but still, it did reach this height under Biden under 22. The diesel price spike, I think, is a double whammy on top of it. And so you asked how much are they going to save?…
That's a big deal.
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for Ohio governor, on The Sean Hannity Show about a week before the 2026 election, laying out what he would do as governor.
They're just showing up. Does this not feel like the Ku Klux Klan to anyone?
…us now. I can't believe even in the great state of Ohio that somebody, you know, this radical is even being considered to be the governor of that state when somebody like you that believes in liberty and freedom and free enterprise and our constitutional republic, you know, is is in a fight here.
…everybody looks themselves in the mirror and answers honestly, who is actually going to make my life better? Who is actually going to make my life more affordable, actually, rather than talking about it? Who is actually going to ensure that my streets are safer from criminals and illegals who have flooded this country and our state? Who is actually going to do it? And it's not even close, Sean. I'm going to stand for the rule of law in our state. I'm going to end sanctuary cities in the state of Ohio. I'm going to fight for putting more energy into our grid to bring down electric bills and costs, make government live within its means, bring down property taxes. This is common sense. But my opponent represents this socialist communist epidemic spreading across our country, villainizing law enforcement, comparing them in that clip that you played, comparing them to the KKK. Imagine that type of person becoming the governor of a state like Ohio. We can't allow it, and we're not going to allow it, but what it requires is people to just show up and vote. If…
Listen, I voted early in my free state of Florida. I do it with great confidence. They have mastered it here. And I just got to tell you right now, I have this to say. Is it true, by the way, that she has been a supporter of the group CARE? The one in the Holy Land Foundation case was an unindicted…
Is that her, too?
That is the same woman. Now, she has never held a job, Sean, for more than two years. So she was health director and she quit. But one of the short jobs she held for about a year and a half was as director of this nonprofit foundation that was directing dollars to CARE. which has been designated as…
