Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy declared his candidacy on Monday in Ohio’s 2026 gubernatorial election.
One month after teasing The announcement outlined plans by a 39-year-old Cincinnati native to cut costs, slash regulations and reform schools in the Midwest state. He originally planned to become co-chair before leaving in January. Lamaswamy also details plans to nurture a new high-tech sector in Ohio, aiming to attract disillusioned blue-state entrepreneurs who usually relocate to Florida or Texas. (Related: Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine taps Husted to replace Senate JD Vance)
“President Trump is reviving our beliefs in America. We need a home leader who will revive our beliefs in Ohio,” Ramaswamy said. “I am honored to announce today that I am running to become the next governor of a great nation at the heart of the greatest nation known to mankind. I was born and raised. The state. Apoorva and I will raise two sons today. The state where the best days are still ahead… I will lead Ohio to American excellence.”
I am honored to formally announce my candidacy to serve as Ohio’s next governor. pic.twitter.com/hfir3dlspe
– Vivek Ramaswamy (@vivekgramaswamy) February 24, 2025
The biotechnology entrepreneur will run to replace Republican Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine. First speculation in recent months has suggested that Ramaswamy might seek a vacant seat in the state Senate after Vice President JD Vance resigned. According to To the Washington Post. These rumors ended after DeWine appointed Lt. Colonel John in January to have had to fill the seats.
Ohio @govmikedewine Lt. Col. John announced he has had his hustling to replace JD Vance in the vice presidential election, representing Ohio in the US Senate. pic.twitter.com/lplvwfk2hy
– cspan (@cspan) January 17, 2025
Ramaswamy first rose to prominence in the nation after launching the 2024 presidential campaign. His momentum led to the Iowa Caucus fourth in January 2024, urging him to quickly step out of the race and support Trump.
After establishing biotechnology company Roivant Sciences in 2014, Ramaswamy has built up his fortune and focuses on acquiring an underdeveloped medicine, particularly Intepirdine, which will treat Alzheimer. He resigned as Roivant CEO in 2021, and in the same year he published the New York Times bestseller, “Woke, Inc.: Social Justice Fraud of Inside Corporate America.”
He sparked national debate over the H-1B visa program in December. Critics say they undercut American workers in favor of cheaper foreign labor when they denounced American culture as “Venellat.”[ing] Mediocrity for excellence. ” Trump appears to be on his side with Lamaswamy in the debate, calling the H-1B a “great program.”
The reason top tech companies often hire more foreign-born and first-generation engineers than “native” Americans is not because of the innate American IQ deficit (lazy and incorrect explanation). The important part of it comes down to c-word: culture. Hard questions require difficult answers.
– Vivek Ramaswamy (@vivekgramaswamy) December 26, 2024
“Our American culture has been respecting mediocrity over excellence for too long (at least since the ’90s, perhaps for a long time),” Lamaswamy writes. “It doesn’t start at university, it starts young. A jock around a culture celebrating prom queens with the Olympiad champion in mathematics, or Valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers.”
Ramaswamy has never detained a civil servant.
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