Every person who appears to know her the best—her former boss, her former colleagues in state government, even the doctors in this state, the Ohio State Medical Association—have told voters not to vote for her but to vote for me instead.
Meantly / Midterms 2026 / OH Governor / Vivek Ramaswamy
Midterms 2026 · OH Governor
Vivek Ramaswamy
Across 19 statements tracked since 20 Aug 2026, Vivek Ramaswamy's most frequent rhetorical moves are absolutes and vague promise.
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Hostility this week 0.7 / 10, in line with their usual.
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This is part of a pattern. Someone else who appears to know her well … says the same thing, and I do think that is important for voters to take that into account, especially because Amy Acton has hid from debate and ducked questions.
Sir, sir, excuse me, you’re going to leave this room if you’re —.
She won’t debate me. She doesn’t allow cameras at her events, and I think her record of continuously, certainly during this campaign, I would say spreading some defamatory, disparaging lies about me and my family, that does deserve to be scrutinized.
And the thing that I want to say is that I would love for this race and this election to be about the substantive issues that impact Ohioans and unfortunately Amy Acton has been hiding from those issues. I’ve never met Amy Acton, which is a regret. I wish I’d…
This is a lifelong pattern with my opponent. to such a despicable low as to attempt to turn the sexual abuse Amy endured at 12 years old from our birth mother’s husband into a political talking point.
Why can't you similarly purchase at the age of 18 in certain markets where you're restricted from doing so before the age of 21? Doesn't make sense.
One of the things I pledge to do is to reset the property tax baseline to where it was a few years ago, before the end of the pandemic. the most significant property tax cut Ohio has ever seen in our history. elimination of the income tax would. are already…
I do intend to resume executions in Ohio in the rare cases for the most egregious of crimes where every element of the facts, the law, and even the backdrop and scale of consequence have been fully established.
Somebody should not be trapped in a failing school district in the inner city of Cleveland if there's a better option. I think that educational choice is important and I'm not going to be responsive to slapstick kind of questions.
It’s not Democrat versus Republican bickering. It’s getting done what needs to get done from the lens of a problem solver, somebody who believes in running the executive branch with the rigor you might use to run a successful business or company. That’s where…
We need more of this in our state and in our country. Open dialogue and I'm grateful for this opportunity today. My only wish is that my opponent could have been here with me, because I think that would make it that much more productive.
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