Vivek Ramaswamy

And it starts, Ben, with enforcing the laws that are already on the books.

So you can talk about passing new laws.

I think that's a reasonable conversation to have.

But that requires a legislature.

That takes time.

And furthermore, you get asked the question of what's the point of passing new laws if the ones that are already on the books aren't being sufficiently enforced?

So one of my top priorities is to take the egregious cases here, a fraud that, frankly, your reporting was really intriguing, or Daily Wire's reporting was really intriguing to me.

I wish I could say that it was a shock.

Compared to what I hear on the ground, unfortunately, it was not a shock, but I appreciate you putting a national spotlight on it in my own home state.

And I think what that does is it forces those who are in power to be able to pay attention to an issue that may have been swept under the rug for too long before.

When I am in power, hopefully if we're elected, we're not gonna sweep it under the rug.

We gotta prosecute aggressively.

And what's the purpose of prosecuting?

Two purposes.

First is when someone does something wrong, you have to actually punish the person who does the wrong thing.

But the second purpose, of course, is deterrence.

the idea that you're just going to get away with bilking the government.

And it's not really in bilking the government so much as bilking the taxpayer, the ordinary law-abiding American, the ordinary law-abiding Ohioan.

That's not okay.

And we have to send that deterrent signal.