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Vivek Ramaswamy to Kick Off His Governor Bid This Month
Townhall ^

Posted on 02/16/2025 11:01:00 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET

Ramaswamy is aiming to succeed Gov. Mike DeWine. He will compete against state Attorney General Dave Yost and Heather Hill.

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We'll be able to see if his schtick works after introducing himself as a potential POTUS. Young newcomers in the WH are a non-starter. Ohio is a major state. He'll have to get past a state-wide winner(Yost). While Vivek was no threat on the national level getting the governor nomination may be a gamble the Ohio voters will have to choose carefully.

JD beat a top-tier candidate in Tim Ryan. Could Vivek beat him?

1 posted on 02/16/2025 11:01:00 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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I can remember when Calif. republicans went for the flash and nominated Wm. Simon Jr., the son of the former treasury secretary and a conservative hero. Simon was awful. Bill Jones could have beat Gray Davis when Calif was more red than purple.


2 posted on 02/16/2025 11:03:33 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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This is going to be an interesting race. I honestly do not know what to make of Vivek. I know l would not want to take him on in a debate. Yost is probably dreading that one.


3 posted on 02/16/2025 11:14:08 AM PST by iamgalt
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A governors race is a better laboratory for a new face than one for the WH-less at stake. Vivek’s future in politics had to start lower. The POTUS race saved him the trouble of running for a house seat or state assembly. That would suggest that going by the numbers is beneath him but he’ll ‘settle’ for the governorship. Be careful.

High profile candidates. Remember Ollie North running for the senate? Too toxic. Same with Katherine Harris of the Florida recount 2000. Those seats are lost for 6 years.


4 posted on 02/16/2025 11:28:03 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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What did Vivek do to make a lot of money? Did he develop a drug that cured Athlete’s foot or something? Does he still want to bring his friends over from a third world shit hole to make it very difficult for me to find a decent job?


5 posted on 02/16/2025 11:28:33 AM PST by jroehl (And how we burned in the camps later - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - The Gulag Archipelago)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

Vivek might be not be a good nominee.

He’s plagiarized Obama’s speeches.

He also bought rights to a drug that didn’t work, ran it to Phase II trials, cashed out and then the drug failed Phase III trials.

If you’re from Ohio you need to look at this carefully.


6 posted on 02/16/2025 11:28:55 AM PST by packagingguy
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Will he tell Ohioians that they are lazy slobs?


7 posted on 02/16/2025 11:32:11 AM PST by stylecouncilor (“It is later than you think! Hasten, therefore, to do the work of God.” - Fr. Seraphim Rose)
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The Pump-and-Dump Scammer, Vivek Ramaswamy

https://drgregmaguire.org/2023/08/28/the-pump-and-dump-scammer-vivek-ramaswamy/


8 posted on 02/16/2025 11:32:57 AM PST by packagingguy
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Vivek would be a huge upgrade over DeWine. He can out-debate any opponent, and he’s great at podcast interviews. Is that enough to actually win the governorship of a major state? We’ll see.


9 posted on 02/16/2025 11:35:02 AM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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Ohio tends to pull towards the middle on state level races. I think he'd be a disaster as a GOP candidate here and absolutely would not vote for him in the primary.
10 posted on 02/16/2025 11:38:06 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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An excerpt from the posted URL:

“. . . Vivek is a light-weight and not even a billionaire yet. But now that he’a a part of the Trump team, he’ll likely become a billionaire and never go to jail – no matter how immoral or illegal his schemes may be. He’s a part of the new USA, where the GDP is represented most by financialization, something fostered by the moronic Ronald Reagan, and very little actual production – the so-called Post-Industrial Economy.”

I know I shouldn’t have started to read that article.


11 posted on 02/16/2025 11:42:36 AM PST by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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*Will he tell Ohioians that they are lazy slobs?*
You tell me.
**Ohio tends to pull towards the middle on state level races. I think he’d be a disaster as a GOP candidate here and absolutely would not vote for him in the primary.**

That’s important to know. DeWine did less damage as a governor than as a senator.


12 posted on 02/16/2025 11:44:44 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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He also bought rights to a drug that didn’t work, ran it to Phase II trials, cashed out and then the drug failed Phase III trials.

Donald Trump was bankrupt. Ronald Reagan was a divorcé.

13 posted on 02/16/2025 11:51:05 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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Vivek's characterization of U.S. workers as ‘mediocre’ will not play well, particularly in Ohio. It will be interesting to see how he backtracks on his past remarks. His competition will certainly tie his 'U.S. workers as mediocre' remarks around his neck.

On the positive side, Vivek should receive all the Indian votes in Ohio. /s

14 posted on 02/16/2025 11:55:50 AM PST by JesusIsLord
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He is quick on his feet and can pull up info in his head on a dime. At one point I was hoping Trump would make him his press secretary to smack down the Acostas of the world.

But every time I hear him speak I feel like I'm dealing with a time share salesman trying to fast talk me into buying something.

And the arrogance ... never been elected to ANYTHING - city council, mayor, state rep, overseer of elections. Nothing. And now he wants to go straight to the top to be governor?

15 posted on 02/16/2025 11:55:55 AM PST by Lizavetta
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**Donald Trump was bankrupt. Ronald Reagan was a divorcé.**

Bill Clinton had peyronies disease-ask Paula.


16 posted on 02/16/2025 11:59:41 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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He is quick on his feet and can pull up info in his head on a dime. At one point I was hoping Trump would make him his press secretary to smack down the Acostas of the world.

Press Secretary would be a waste of his talents.

17 posted on 02/16/2025 12:04:56 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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It will be interesting to see how he backtracks on his past remarks.

I expect a work of art in diversionary rhetoric should Vivek be challenged for his past remarks. He is an extremely good speaker and probably cannot be flustered by opponents.

He says all the right things I want to hear. I do not believe for a moment that he will do any of them.

He has slipped up and said a number of things I did not want to hear. His true nature has already been exposed. I would not vote for him in a primary election.

18 posted on 02/16/2025 12:05:00 PM PST by flamberge (The times, they are a' changing.)
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Vivek's characterization of U.S. workers as ‘mediocre’ will not play well, particularly in Ohio.

Time will tell. Vivek is right though.

19 posted on 02/16/2025 12:05:53 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jyotishi

That link is a leftist blog.

However this information is readily available on multiple Twitter accounts.

It’s not my place to tell Republicans in Ohio who to nominate, but there are sketchy things about Vivek’s past. Plus his negative comments about American workers during the Christmas H1B Visa War of 2024.

Can he be elected to the governorship if Republicans nominate him? IDK.

But nominating him seems like an unnecessary risk in an otherwise red state.


20 posted on 02/16/2025 12:25:41 PM PST by packagingguy
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