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Things Vivek Ramaswamy Thinks Only Exist in Ohioans’ Imaginations

Columbus, Ohio-  In case you missed it, Vivek Ramaswamy said in a new clip that costs aren’t really rising and Ohio families are just imagining it. But last year alone, Ohio families paid $1,532 more in expenses than the previous year. 

“While Vivek Ramaswamy flies over Ohio in his private jet and lectures us that rising costs are figments of our imagination, Ohioans continue to struggle with costs,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Whether it’s telling us rising costs are in their imagination, arguing Medicare and Medicaid are mistakes, or calling our workers lazy, Vivek Ramaswamy can’t be trusted to fight for hardworking Ohioans.”

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NEW CLIP: Vivek Ramaswamy to Ohioans: Costs Aren’t Actually Rising, You Just Think They Are

Columbus, Ohio- After calling Ohioans lazy, saying that Medicaid and Medicare were mistakes, and telling struggling families to earn more, Vivek Ramaswamy now says costs aren’t really rising, Ohio families are just imagining it. 

WATCH THE CLIP HERE 

“If billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy believes Ohioans are only imagining that costs are rising, he should tell us exactly which costs he thinks aren’t going up, because those of us without a private jet know that it’s getting harder to make ends meet,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “We look forward to Ramawamy continuing to run on his platform of calling Ohioans lazy, saying Medicare and Medicaid were a mistake, and our skyrocketing bills are just in our imagination.” 

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This Week in #OHGov: “I Believe It Was a Mistake”

Columbus, Ohio- It’s been another bad week for Vivek Ramaswamy. Here’s what you missed this week as this out of touch billionaire who calls Ohioans “lazy” and “mediocre” continues to prove he has no clue what working families are going through and would continue the same failed policies that have made life more difficult and expensive.

Vivek’s Medicaid Mistake:  Unearthed video showed Vivek Ramaswamy calling Medicaid and Medicare a “mistake,” despite the more than 3 million Ohioans who rely on these cornerstone programs to get healthcare and keep costs down. 

Just Make More Money: In a brand new social media blunder, Ramaswamy says that Ohioans struggling with rising costs should simply earn more money in a video posted yesterday. It’s on brand for the guy who called Ohioans “lazy” and mediocre, and shipped his business to Texas. 

Security Scandal: Ramaswamy’s personal security guard scandal continues to haunt him in the news after ARK Protection Group officially shut down earlier this week. Ohioans deserve answers about why Ramaswamy’s team waited weeks to fire their firm following his bodyguard’s late December arrest and why Ramaswamy and his team believe they are above the law.

Greenland > Greene County: While Ohioans struggle to make ends meet, Ramaswamy is spending his time doing Fox News hits about Greenland, 2,000 miles away from the state where he’s running for governor… which we guess isn’t that far when you can fire up the private jet at a moment’s notice! 

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WXVU: Ramaswamy called Medicare and Medicaid ‘a mistake.’ Was that a mistake?

Columbus, Ohio- After Vivek Ramaswamy was caught calling Medicare and Medicaid a “mistake,” a new analysis from Howard Wilkinson shows how Ramaswamy’s own revealing “mistake” shows that in addition to being deeply out of touch with Ohio’s working families, Ramaswamy would again work to raise costs and make the government work only for billionaires and special interests. 

READ: Analysis: Ramaswamy called Medicare and Medicaid ‘a mistake’ | Howard Wilkinson, WXV

  • Four little words on an Ezra Klein podcast, uttered in October 2024, are going to haunt Vivek Ramaswamy, the GOP candidate for Ohio governor, from now until the November election.
  • Asked by Klein whether or not he believed the creation of Medicare and Medicaid, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, were mistakes, Ramaswamy answered without hesitation.
  • “I believe they were,” said Ramaswamy, who was still months away from becoming a candidate for Ohio governor.
  • Millions of Ohioans, most of whom vote, will be most interested in hearing Ramaswamy’s views on the social safety net programs they benefit from each and every day.
  • But pre-candidacy Ramaswamy expanded on his views in the podcast, and, to date, hasn’t changed his mind, apparently. We wanted to ask him if he wanted to “revise and extend” his remarks, as they say in Congress, but his press handlers did not respond to requests for an interview.
  • So all we have is what he said to Ezra Klein in October 2024. Medicare and Medicaid were mistakes, he said, “particularly Medicaid, particularly the welfare state, without the work requirements attached to it.”
  • Three months after making these remarks, Ramaswamy spent a couple of weeks under Elon Musk and his DOGE budget-slashing effort (under which government spending actually increased).
  • Spurned by DeWine, Ramaswamy decided to run for governor instead, despite never having spent a day in state government.
  • Ramaswamy has sworn off posting on social media for the duration of his campaign — probably a wise move, since nearly every time he did, it backfired on him. Such as with his plan for a 365-day school year for kids — an idea so far out that even many Republicans called him out on it.

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ICYMI: Jon Husted Tells Struggling Ohioans to Fix Their ‘Work Ethic’

Columbus, Ohio — In case you missed it, Jon Husted insulted hardworking Ohioans last week, claiming that no one has a strong work ethic anymore.

Husted’s newest comments come as Ohioans are working harder than ever to get by. While families struggle with rising costs, Husted has repeatedly denied an affordability crisis exists at all — lecturing families to simply “earn more” money to make ends meet.

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American Journal News: Jon Husted tells struggling Ohioans to fix their ‘work ethic’

  • Republican Sen. Jon Husted said that Ohioans struggling to put food on the table may lack the work ethic needed to improve their situation.
  • He made the remark during a Jan. 16 interview with WOWO radio in Fort Wayne. He was discussing the Upward Mobility Act, a bill he authored that would empower some states to impose stricter work requirements on public assistance recipients.
  • “Our work ethic is broken,” Husted said. “We don’t have the work ethic in this country that we once had, and we literally have the federal government telling people we will give you more money if you stay home than if you go to work. That’s crazy.”
  • Husted’s remarks echo previous comments in which he advised Ohioans struggling with affordability to “earn more” and claimed rising costs were mostly a problem in blue states.

MeidasTouch News: Ohio MAGA Senator Jon Husted Says American ‘Work Ethic is Broken’

  • With Americans facing a graver and graver affordability crisis as prices go up and wages stay stagnant for working families, MAGA Republican Senator Jon Husted wants Americans to know they just aren’t working hard enough.
  • Husted said in an interview on a local radio program last week that American “work ethic is broken” and that federal relief payments for working families exist to incentivize Americans to be lazy.
  • American productivity has never been higher, and yet nearly three quarters of Americans live paycheck to paycheck. The majority of wealth in the United States is concentrated in the hands of the wealthiest 1% of the population.
  • The simple fact is: Americans are working harder than they ever have, but still can’t make ends meet because wages have not kept up with the cost of living. Meanwhile, MAGA Republicans like Husted are rewarding the top 1% with more tax cuts.
  • This is not Husted’s first time sounding incredibly out of touch. In December, Husted addressed Americans who were panicking about the cost of healthcare doubling and tripling because of Republicans killing Affordable Care Act subsidies, by telling people the solution was simply to “earn more.”

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