Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has President Donald Trump in his nook, and his massive imaginative and prescient to take the state to the “subsequent stage” is rife with plans to invigorate schooling, faucet into vitality potential and residential in on the American Dream.
“Folks discuss in regards to the Rust Belt. I do not wish to discuss in regards to the Rust Belt. I wish to lead us to the platinum belt,” the previous 2024 presidential candidate informed Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures.” “The sectors of the longer term, from semiconductors to nuclear vitality to even AI, and the best way I take into consideration this, as if Silicon Valley led the best way within the American economic system for the final ten years, I wish to ensure it is the Ohio River Valley for the subsequent ten years, and that is my imaginative and prescient for taking the state to the subsequent stage.”
Trump made a pair of key endorsements for the 2026 gubernatorial races with Ramaswamy in Ohio and Rep. Byron Donalds in Florida as each states’ governors — Republicans Mike DeWine and Ron DeSantis, respectively — are slated to time period out after subsequent 12 months.
SENATORS BACK VIVEK RAMASWAMY FOR OHIO GOVERNOR AHEAD OF EXPECTED GUBERNATORIAL BID
Vivek Ramaswamy speaks earlier than Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump, takes the stage on the marketing campaign rally at Madison Sq. Backyard on October 27, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Pictures)
Ramaswamy introduced his bid to take DeWine’s place within the governor’s mansion throughout a rally in his hometown of Cincinnati final month.Â
The 39-year-old Trump ally not too long ago secured separate endorsements from the president and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who now leads the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE) that Ramaswamy was as soon as slated to co-lead with him, however he exited earlier than Trump’s inauguration in January.Â
TRUMP, MUSK ENDORSE VIVEK RAMASWAMY FOR OHIO GOVERNOR
Vivek Ramaswamy earned President Trump’s endorsement for the 2026 Ohio gubernatorial race. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
If elected, Ramaswamy’s plans for the Buckeye State embody embracing the “drill child drill” message to accommodate the increasingly-demanding age of AI information facilities, specializing in “merit-based pay” for workers within the schooling realm, taking faculty option to the “subsequent stage” with emphasis on faculty selection and serving to college students excel in studying, writing and math to set a brand new “nationwide normal” for schooling.
“I wish to lead Ohio to be one of the best state within the nation, to generate wealth and to boost a younger household, and to present your children a world-class schooling,” he mentioned. “I wish to flip our state right into a form of particular financial area on the coronary heart of the nation, freed from purple tape, freed from paperwork. The state the place the American dream is definitely the birthright for our kids.”
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Fox Information’ Landon Mion contributed to this report
