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Columbus, Ohio-  New reporting from TiffinOhio.net spotlighted what Ohioans already know: Vivek Ramaswamy is just using his bid for governor of Ohio as a layover on the way to a 2028 presidential run.

TiffinOhio.net: Is Ohio a stepping stone? NYT lists Ramaswamy as a 2028 presidential prospect

• A New York Times feature this week added Vivek Ramaswamy to its list of potential 2028 presidential candidates — 15 months after the Ohio Republican nominee for governor publicly pledged to serve a full four-year term and rule out a 2028 White House bid.

• The Times piece, published Wednesday by political reporter Reid J. Epstein, grouped Ramaswamy with Florida Rep. Byron Donalds in a category labeled “The Politicians Who Could Make a Quick Leap.” The Times wrote that the two Republicans “could bounce from running for governor to national campaigns” and noted that Ramaswamy “already ran for president in 2024.”

• Even before Ramaswamy launched his campaign, members of his own party were warning that his ambitions extended beyond Columbus. Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost, who initially ran for the gubernatorial nomination before dropping out, told NBC News in February 2025 that Ramaswamy had spent the previous year cycling through bigger ambitions.

• “He has wanted, over the last year, to be president, to have a Cabinet spot, to be co-leader of DOGE,” Yost said. “The governor of Ohio is not a consolation prize … My concern is that what he seems to do best is to quit.”

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Ramaswamy: “Could we tolerate a national system in which certain people on the basis of a biomarker are segregated to say you can’t go back to a normal life?”

Columbus, Ohio- Over the weekend, Vivek Ramaswamy continued to face scrutiny from his extreme, toxic calls to segregate Americans based on COVID immunity status. NBC4’s Colleen Marshall shined a spotlight on Ramaswamy’s comments.

Reporting from the Associated Press first revealed Ramaswamy wanted to “segregate” Americans based on biomarkers and made over $2 billion in profit from the COVID-19 vaccine. 

Then, unearthed audio reported by NBC4 further showed how Ramaswamy contradicted his own comments on the campaign trail after attacking Dr. Amy Acton on her role as Ohio Department of Health director. 

“At every turn, Ohioans are seeing more evidence everything Vivek Ramaswamy does is a lie or scam to make money for himself while working families are left behind,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Ohioans can’t trust Vivek Ramaswamy.”

See highlights below and watch the clip here: 

• In 2020, he was talking about stay-at-home mandates and required testing. Critics say that sounds a lot like what Governor DeWine and Doctor Acton were doing back then, the very thing that many Republicans now call government overreach and an infringement on individual freedoms.

• Ramaswamy’s company made more than $2 billion dollars on vaccines and he even supported government mandated testing to find out the rate of immunity.

• The scientific distinctions that Ramaswamy is talking about would have required mandatory testing, then a government registry of your antibody status to keep track of who was safe to resume normal life and segregation for those who did not have immunity.

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Ramaswamy: “Could we tolerate a national system in which certain people on the basis of a biomarker are segregated to say you can’t go back to a normal life”

Columbus, Ohio- In unearthed audio reported by NBC4, Vivek Ramaswamy contradicted his own comments on COVID-19 after attacking Dr. Amy Acton on her role as Ohio Department of Health director. 

This discovery follows bombshell reporting from the Associated Press that shone a spotlight on Ramaswamy’s pandemic ghosts, including how he and his company made $2.2 billion from the COVID-19 vaccine and pushed for a national COVID-19 registry that would “segregate” the American people based on their vaccine status. 

In addition to proposing draconian measures to boost his bottom line, the AP investigation revealed Ramaswamy served on Ohio’s COVID-19 response team, advised Jon Husted on pandemic response, then paid a Wikipedia editor to scrub his involvement once it was no longer politically convenient. 

WATCH THE CLIP HERE: 

“Ohioans can’t trust a single word that comes out of billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy’s mouth. Whether it’s an extreme proposal to ‘segregate’ Americans or scrubbing his involvement from his Wikipedia page after the fact, everything Ramaswamy says is a scam that will make more money for himself and leave Ohioans behind,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer.

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Columbus, Ohio- In an interview with WEWS’ Morgan Trau, Vivek Ramaswamy threw a temper tantrum and stormed off when asked about his “plan” to fund public education in Ohio that would result in the gutting of public school budgets and massive tax increases. Of course, he refused to answer. Ramaswamy’s crash out comes as his campaign continues to struggle despite millions spent on ads.

WATCH THE CLIP HERE:

“It’s no surprise Ramaswamy is lashing out as his campaign continues to struggle. Ohioans know he moved his business to Texas while calling workers lazy, said Medicaid and Medicare were “mistakes” and his property tax scam would defund public schools,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer.

Ohioans can read more about how Ramaswamy’s scam policies would gut public education and raise costs at ramaswamyscamoflife.com. 

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Columbus, Ohio- In another interview full of the disprovable lies that we’ve come to expect from billionaire scammer Vivek Ramaswamy, he now claims he “loves long drives” around Ohio. 

“Vivek Ramaswamy is desperate to hide his disdain for Ohio after calling workers lazy and claiming Ohio is not the best state. He loves flying 30 miles to avoid driving with Ohioans on the ground,” said Ohio Democratic Party spokeswoman Katie Seewer. “Ramaswamy’s out-of-touch message won’t land with Ohioans who know they can’t believe a word he says.”

READ MORE about how Ramaswamy treats Ohio like a flyover state:

Heartland Signal: Records show Ohio governor candidate Vivek Ramaswamy dropped $780K on private jet flights last year

• Campaign expenditure filings for Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy show that the Republican spent more than $780,000 on private jet travel in 2025.

• The former biotech pharmaceutical executive spent $10,721.97 more on private jet travel while campaigning in Ohio — the 34th largest state in the U.S. in square miles — than U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) spent on all air travel (public and private) during his Fighting Oligarchy Tour last year, during which he visited 29 cities across the country.

Tribune Chronicle: Ramaswamy proposes Ohio university consolidation

• According to flight records, Ramaswamy flew on his Cessna 750 Citation — owned by his V Leasing LLC — from Columbus the day before the event to the Youngstown-Warren Regional Airport and then flew home after the event ended.

• Ramaswamy, a billionaire biotech entrepreneur, flew in and out of the area’s airport six times last year.

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