Vivek Ramaswamy

I would say we're cautiously optimistic that we will shatter recent norms for what those primary outcomes are.

If you look at the 2024, 2022 governor and Senate primaries, you had competitive primaries where Bernie Moreno and J.D.

Vance and Mike DeWine were elected.

You're looking at 40, at most 50% of the vote that went for the Republican vote.

Even if you go back to 2018, when Mike DeWine was first elected, when someone else was elected to the Senate, you see the same thing.

It's been a ceiling of 40 to 50 percent.

So we'll see what the results come in.

I don't want to count the chickens before they hatchpin, but take a look at it tomorrow and or even late tonight.

And I'm cautiously optimistic that we're going to significantly, significantly beat that ceiling.

But let's see.

So look, I think that the reality is all states, including Ohio, I think have turned a blind eye to this level of rampant fraud of the welfare system broadly, including Medicaid.

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.