Ben Shapiro

Vivek, great to talk to you.

Good to see you, man.

So why don't we talk about, first of all, the state of the primary.

So obviously the primary is today.

You are widely expected to win.

What are the expectations for you in terms of sort of percentage?

Because obviously there's been a large scale movement to suggest that that you're not doing as well as you should.

But the reality is that competitive primaries in Republican Party areas and in Ohio have been quite common for a very long time.

So what are you expecting today?

So obviously, we here at Daily Wire have been covering extensively the investigative reporting of Luke Rosiak and the rest of our investigative team about what appears to be alleged fraud in Ohio, Medicaid fraud.

Again, we've seen this in a wide variety of states.

The extent of it in Ohio appears to be quite shocking.

Again, what you're looking at is buildings that look largely empty with tons of registered businesses that are receiving Medicaid monies.

What do you make of that?

And what would you do as governor of Ohio to crack down on that?

So Vivek, obviously you were involved at the beginning with Doge.

Our reporting was largely based on some of the revelations that came via Doge because a lot of the information that Doge uncovered served as sort of the basis for our investigation.

Why do you think it is that so many members of government at the state and the federal level have brushed all of this under the rug?

Because you would assume that, you know, good-hearted people in government

who would like for these programs to work efficiently would be unhappy with the fraud, but it seems as though they have more of an incentive to pretend the fraud isn't happening, thus to claim that the programs are working better than they are or something.