With his primary victory, Vivek Ramaswamy locks up the GOP nomination — bringing with him a record of extreme positions, higher costs, and attacks on the health systems Ohio families rely on.
Ramaswamy has built his campaign on deception — reshaping his message and rewriting his own history to fit it, but that’s nothing new for him. He previously paid a Wikipedia editor to remove key details from his background, including his role on Ohio’s COVID-19 Response Team and ties to a scientist who helped pioneer mRNA vaccines.
And it’s clear why Vivek doesn’t want Ohioans to know the truth. His public health record puts Ohio’s health care system at risk. Vivek has previously called Medicaid “a mistake” and supported Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill that could strip more than 254,000 Ohioans of their health insurance.
Vivek Ramaswamy also co-created Trump’s DOGE initiative, which shut down more than a dozen federal offices in Ohio, including a Social Security Administration office in Mansfield, even though more than 280,000 Ohioans relied on Social Security benefits. DOGE also canceled nearly $70 million in grants to Ohio State University.
As he campaigns to be governor of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy is taking aim at the very state he wants to run — saying, “Ohio is a good state, I can’t say it’s the best state.”
And if that was not bad enough, Vivek also supported Trump’s disastrous tariffs, which harmed Ohio farmers and impacted Ohio’s manufacturing, causing one Ohio company to lose more than $4 million to tariffs. Just last year, soybean farmers in Ohio said they were at the “brink” of their livelihoods due to Trump’s tariff policies.
For Ohio, this is what’s on the table: Ramaswamy is a candidate who thrives on controversy, embraces hardline positions, and leans into rhetoric that divides more than it unites — all while aligning himself closely with Donald Trump and advancing the same agenda that’s cut benefits and increased prices on Ohioans.
From undermining public health to pushing headline-grabbing proposals, he has shown a willingness to change his message — and his record — to fit the moment.
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Published: May 5, 2026