“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.”

…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.

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…