Vivek Ramaswamy plans to announce Ohio gubernatorial run

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Biotech entrepreneur and former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy plans to run for Ohio governor, according to two people familiar with his plans who say that the co-leader of President-elect Donald Trump’s “Department of Government Efficiency” initiative will announce his bid shortly.

“Vivek’s base plan remains [the] same: to get accomplishments at DOGE and then announce a run for governor shortly,” said an Ohio operative familiar with Ramaswamy’s thinking, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to speak freely about the former presidential candidate’s intentions.

A person inside Ramaswamy’s political apparatus who spoke to Ramaswamy this week said that Ramaswamy said he plans to run to replace Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine (R), who is term limited. “The statement is drafted. It is ready,” the person said Ramaswamy told them. Ramaswamy planned to announce his selection after DeWine announces his pick to replace Vice President-elect JD Vance in the Senate, the person said.

A representative for Ramaswamy did not respond to a request for comment.

https://wapo.st/3WkACYM

I think he provided whoever his opponent is a treasure trove of ads. Vivek thinks Americans are too lazy to do tech jobs.

[NEOBuckeye]

1. Who Cares?

He won’t win. Yost has a much better shot.

Ramaswarmy is so radioactive, even Trump and Musk couldn’t wait to offload him. That’s saying something.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

2. Get out of DOGE: How Musk helped eject Ramaswamy

As I suspected, Musk could not stand anyone else getting any attention and got rid of VR

Link to tweet

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/01/20/doge-musk-helped-eject-ramaswamy-00199487

Elon Musk has already achieved his first cut at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency: his co-leader Vivek Ramaswamy.

Musk, the tech tycoon and Donald Trump confidant, made it known that he wanted Ramaswamy out of DOGE in recent days, according to three people familiar with Musk’s preferences who, like others for this article, were granted anonymity to discuss them. An ill-received holiday rant on X by Ramaswamy about H-1B visas apparently hastened his demise.

Just 69 days after Trump announced the team, Ramaswamy is now leaving DOGE and planning to announce a run for Ohio governor next week. Musk’s ability to ice out Ramaswamy, who for a variety of reasons had irked some Republicans in Trump’s circle, is the latest sign of his influence in the incoming administration. And it presages an encore of all of the infighting that marked Trump’s first term.

Ramaswamy “just burned through the bridges and he finally burned Elon,” said a Republican strategist close to Trump advisers. “Everyone wants him out of Mar-a-Lago, out of D.C.”

One main reason for some Republicans’ frustration with Ramaswamy was a post he made on X during a discussion of H-1B visas. In late December, Ramaswamy criticized American culture, saying that tech companies hire foreign workers in part because of a mindset in the country that has “venerated mediocrity over excellence.”

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3. Hopefully an old white male runs against him

And spends the campaign calling him a DEI hire and threatening to deport him.

I for one am shocked one of the fee non white males around Trump has already given up working with Trump.