Vivek Ramaswamy

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.

So in the end, Ben, as often happens in these things, it's not as complicated as it sounds, right?

This isn't fancy stuff, okay?

In a modern era of AI, you have a toolkit that allows you to spot a burn to abnormalities even more quickly and more reliably than at prior points in human history.

We have laws on the books.

In Ohio, we have a Republican state that controls all three branches of government.

This is doable, but it does require a leader at the top who's willing to act with a spine decisively.

And that's why I'm in this.

I mean, you think about why sometimes the question of why am I doing this?

Which, you know, politics can be frustrating at times.