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VR Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy Vivek Ramaswamy founded the biotech company Roivant Sciences and ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

“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.”

The Sean Hannity Show · US Politics · October 2026

“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.” — Vivek Ramaswamy, The Sean Hannity Show

Context

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.

Transcript

The Sean Hannity Show Around 02:36 into the episode
Speaker 2

They're just showing up. Does this not feel like the Ku Klux Klan to anyone?

Sean Hannity

…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.

Vivek Ramaswamy

…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…

Sean Hannity

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…

Speaker 2

Is that her, too?

Vivek Ramaswamy

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…

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