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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the fifty five krc Morning Show Man
Speaker 1: who I am a huge fan of and who will
Speaker 1: be Ohio's next governor, Vike Gramaswamy. Good to have you
Speaker 1: back on the program.
Speaker 2: It's good to be on. Man. How are you doing
Speaker 2: really well? Doing really well?
Speaker 1: I'm gonna recommend my listeners check out VIVEK for Ohio,
Speaker 1: viv e K for Ohio dot com. Uh, that's your
Speaker 1: early campaign web page. We can of course start working on.
Speaker 1: You know you'll be in advance of the primary when
Speaker 1: we finally get to it. And I know you're going
Speaker 1: to be speaking tonight to Lincoln Day Dinner Claarremont County
Speaker 1: GOP's having for you. But real quick here for those
Speaker 1: people are saying, well, wait a second, the governor race
Speaker 1: isn't for until twenty twenty six. We got twenty months
Speaker 1: ahead of that. I know there's a primary, but we're
Speaker 1: pretty far out. You your name is, and you are
Speaker 1: everywhere around Ohio. Why are you getting in advance of
Speaker 1: this so early I think I might know, but let
Speaker 1: my listeners know about.
Speaker 2: What's going on. Well what First of all, there's a
Speaker 2: few reasons for that. One is we have unprecedented unity
Speaker 2: in our Republican Party Ryan like we've never seen in
Speaker 2: an Ohio election cycle before. And I want us to
Speaker 2: take advantage of that unity to be able to actually
Speaker 2: push an agenda that lifts up all Ohioans. And I
Speaker 2: think that's going to require some ambition. And so that's
Speaker 2: the number one reason is we're united. Want the primary
Speaker 2: phase of this is effectively over. We're moving on to
Speaker 2: the general election, and I want to do to the
Speaker 2: general election in the next three months what we've already
Speaker 2: done to this primary, which is effectively to render the
Speaker 2: infighting moot and to focus on what we're actually going
Speaker 2: to do for Ohioans. The other reason, though, is that
Speaker 2: President Trump is doing something unique with the federal programs,
Speaker 2: which is he's sending a lot of them back to
Speaker 2: the states and to the people where they belong. Look
Speaker 2: at the Department of Education. He shut that down or
Speaker 2: started shutting it down. But the real answer is going
Speaker 2: to be on the shoulders of the states of how
Speaker 2: we fix the education policy for our kids. And so
Speaker 2: I do think a running start, a head start is
Speaker 2: really important here. I'm not just focused on winning the
Speaker 2: primary or winning the general. I'm focused on setting a
Speaker 2: governing agenda that we start when I take office with
Speaker 2: a running start, not a standing start, and I think
Speaker 2: it's really important for the success of our state.
Speaker 1: Very Trump asked that running start. He's been in a
Speaker 1: full on sprint since the elections or since he was
Speaker 1: sworn in. It's a pretty amazing thing to behold given
Speaker 1: the four year administration now in terms of the event,
Speaker 1: and I let's get the details on that. You're doing
Speaker 1: the Lincoln Day dinner speech. Actually, I'm going to be
Speaker 1: at the Warren County one next week where you're the
Speaker 1: keynote speaker, and I'll have an opportunity to speak in
Speaker 1: advance of you talking as well. I'm feelberty blessed to
Speaker 1: have been asked for the ask to attend that.
Speaker 2: Great great you know, we'll be the Clemont County Lincoln
Speaker 2: Day Dinner tonight with on a fourth night straight that
Speaker 2: we're doing sellout crowds across the state. And one of
Speaker 2: the things I'm trying to do, Ryan is also visit
Speaker 2: parts of the state that haven't traditionally been you know,
Speaker 2: the usual places where candidates go. We've gone in the
Speaker 2: last week through Irontend at the southern tip of our state,
Speaker 2: all the way the week before through Jefferson County, the
Speaker 2: eastern end of our state, to Preble County out in
Speaker 2: Mahoning County last night. And what I'm seeing is a
Speaker 2: level of energy we really haven't spent in certainly in
Speaker 2: our state, to the extent I've seen in a very
Speaker 2: long time. I think it's a positive thing for us.
Speaker 2: I think people are ready to not just move on
Speaker 2: from the Biden Kamala Harris era. Right we knew what
Speaker 2: we were running from last November. Now the question is
Speaker 2: what are we running too. And I think that this
Speaker 2: is a moment where we as a Republican Party have
Speaker 2: an opportunity to lead not just the sixty percent of
Speaker 2: the state that's with us, but the remainder of the
Speaker 2: state that might not realize they're with us too, as
Speaker 2: long as we can tell them how we're going to
Speaker 2: reform education in the state, how we're going to put
Speaker 2: more money in their pocket. One of the things I'm
Speaker 2: talking about is I travel a lot of the state
Speaker 2: is educating our people on a looming electricity crisis in
Speaker 2: our state. We have a major risk of shortages with
Speaker 2: the war on coal and natural gas across our region.
Speaker 2: At the same time, these AI data centers are moving
Speaker 2: into our state. Yeah, the AI data center boom is
Speaker 2: a good thing. It can be a good thing, but
Speaker 2: only if we provide baseload power generation. And see, these
Speaker 2: are issues that politicians and frankly both parties aren't really
Speaker 2: talking about or addressing enough. But if we educate our
Speaker 2: people and prepare them for what we're about to do,
Speaker 2: which is to really take Ohio into the future, then frankly,
Speaker 2: it's not just going to be the nearly thousand people
Speaker 2: in Mahoning Valley that showed up last night, or there
Speaker 2: are many more in Clermont County tonight. But it's also
Speaker 2: going to be all the people who want in the room,
Speaker 2: who are going to benefit from the policies that we
Speaker 2: actually implement. And that's what I'm most excited about right now.
Speaker 1: Isn't it interesting that artificial intelligence centers are actually launching
Speaker 1: interest in modular nuclear reactors. Finally, I've been screaming about
Speaker 1: this on the Morning Show for years. Listen, you don't
Speaker 1: build three mile island towers anymore. These are small. They're
Speaker 1: at one size fits all all. They smitten fit in
Speaker 1: a very small footprints, so you're not using up in
Speaker 1: gobs of space. They produce massive quantities of electricities that
Speaker 1: can run entire cities and artificial intelligence data centers, and
Speaker 1: they're comparatively easy to build. The only stating things standing
Speaker 1: in the way of those being built right now is ourselves.
Speaker 1: We are our own worst enemy.
Speaker 2: You nailed it. It's actually this week that I unveiled
Speaker 2: it in several of the speeches across the state. That
Speaker 2: is how we power our electric grid for the future.
Speaker 2: In the short term, to making sure we use fossil fuels, coal,
Speaker 2: natural gas an important part of providing energy and the
Speaker 2: power for our electric grid. But in the long run,
Speaker 2: I want Ohio to be the state that isn't playing
Speaker 2: from behind. I want a high to be the state
Speaker 2: that leads the way in small modular nuclear reactors. This
Speaker 2: is the way of the future. This is the way
Speaker 2: that we can use this AI data center boom as
Speaker 2: an opportunity to make sure that we're powered for the
Speaker 2: next century. That Ohio is leading the way in energy
Speaker 2: dominant for the entire twenty first and likely twenty second
Speaker 2: century and beyond. It's just red tape that gets in
Speaker 2: the way. I mean. The beauty of small modular nuclear
Speaker 2: reactors is that they're smaller as the name suggests, they're
Speaker 2: self contained, that takes care of the wasteissue, and they
Speaker 2: can be actually tailored and fit for purpose. So imagine
Speaker 2: a future in our state when you have clusters and
Speaker 2: regions of our state worth multiple different AI data centers,
Speaker 2: but all populated and powered in that same region by
Speaker 2: the same small modular nuclear reactor or a series of them.
Speaker 2: That's what the energy grid of the future looks like.
Speaker 2: That's really what the Ohio of the future looks like,
Speaker 2: and that allows us not to have to fear rotating
Speaker 2: power outages, which is where we would be headed right
Speaker 2: now without a solution, but instead to be a state
Speaker 2: that the energy dominant and even exporting energy to other
Speaker 2: states in our regions. So that's where I want to
Speaker 2: lead our state, and I see an opportunity because you
Speaker 2: think about it, Brian, we were the state that led
Speaker 2: the first Industrial Revolution, that was Ohio. We've always been
Speaker 2: the pioneers the explorers, the unafraid. My hometown of Cincinnati,
Speaker 2: as you well know, was known around the world as
Speaker 2: the Queen City, the consumer products capital of the world,
Speaker 2: just as Toledo lead and glass, Akron and rubber Youngstown
Speaker 2: where I was last night, led the way and steel.
Speaker 2: We've been the leaders of the nation, right and I
Speaker 2: think that we got to get out of this mindset
Speaker 2: where somehow this is just part of the rust belt
Speaker 2: whose best days are behind us. No far from it.
Speaker 2: We're going to lead Ohio to our future. It's our
Speaker 2: best days are still ahead. If Silicon Valley led the
Speaker 2: way in the American economy for the last ten years,
Speaker 2: I'm here to make sure it is the Ohio River
Speaker 2: Valley for the next ten years. And it's going to
Speaker 2: be not just the sectors of the past, but also
Speaker 2: the sectors of the future, including small modular nuclear reactors,
Speaker 2: including semiconductor production, including the areas that are going to
Speaker 2: power the American economy. And so yes, are we on
Speaker 2: the cusp of a golden age in America? I think
Speaker 2: we are. I think we can be. But I think
Speaker 2: it's going to be Ohio. And it ought to be
Speaker 2: Ohio rather than Florida. Or Texas that leads away from
Speaker 2: the center of the country, from the heart of the country.
Speaker 2: We have every God given gift we could want to
Speaker 2: do it, from fertile farmland to great natural resources. All
Speaker 2: we need to do is to actually believe in ourselves
Speaker 2: to actually do it. And that's the job of a governor.
Speaker 2: The job of a good leader is to revive our
Speaker 2: conviction in our state, to frankly market our state effectively
Speaker 2: to the rest of the country so we can have
Speaker 2: people moving in rather than moving out. And that's exactly
Speaker 2: what I'm going to do as the next leader of
Speaker 2: this state. I'm looking forward to getting started. Of course,
Speaker 2: we've got to win this election to do it, but
Speaker 2: I think that that energy is part of why we've
Speaker 2: had I don't think we've seen endorsements like this that
Speaker 2: are that one sided in our state for the history
Speaker 2: of our gubernatorial elections. And I'm grateful for that, and
Speaker 2: I want to use that unity in our party to
Speaker 2: supercharge us forward. Well, we certainly can use that unity.
Speaker 2: Your message comes through loud and clear, Your enthusiasm comes
Speaker 2: through loud and clear. And if there's one person that I
Speaker 2: am certain that could herd the cats in Columbus that
Speaker 2: have been the Republican party of the past decade or more.
Speaker 2: I think it's you.
Speaker 1: You can get it done and get everybody plan on
Speaker 1: the same page and making Ohio an energy leader. That
Speaker 1: is one fantastic way of doing it. It would be less
Speaker 1: expensive for us to charge and heat and air condition
Speaker 1: our homes, less expensive for business. Was would be a
Speaker 1: real magnet. And then maybe we could do something like
Speaker 1: eliminate the income tax, right and you know go, yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. Well, I'll tell you what I got
Speaker 1: to ask you this for. I know we're going to
Speaker 1: part company right now. I gotta let you go, Bud.
Speaker 1: They're talking about six hundred million dollars to go to
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns to help them build some sort of
Speaker 1: stupid two point seven billion dollar mega complex. I'm against
Speaker 1: taxpayer dollars for stadium facilities. We've got so many other
Speaker 1: demands that have been placed upon Ohio taxpayers real quick.
Speaker 1: Can you chime in on the that conceptually, if not specifically,
Speaker 1: on that allocation to the extent it goes through.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, look, that one's going to be resolved
Speaker 2: long before I take office. Bought a principle, right, They
Speaker 2: brought a principle. Is where am I focused, Brian. I
Speaker 2: want to take the income tax down to zero. I
Speaker 2: want to eliminate the income tax in our state. I
Speaker 2: want to put a cap on property taxes in our
Speaker 2: state because they've gotten insanely high. It's your money, not
Speaker 2: the governments. It is your land, not the governments. And
Speaker 2: those are the principles we need to restore if this
Speaker 2: is a state that people move into instead of out of.
Speaker 2: Right now, we're chasing a lot of people out of
Speaker 2: our state. We have more people moving out than in.
Speaker 2: I'm going to reverse that. We're going to become a magnet.
Speaker 2: Right now, Florida is number one, Texas is number two.
Speaker 2: Ohio is number thirty eight for moving in versus out.
Speaker 2: By the time I'm done, I want us to be
Speaker 2: number one. I want the rate of growth in our
Speaker 2: state to be the top in the country. And the
Speaker 2: way we're going to do it is by time tested
Speaker 2: principles of allowing people to keep the money that you earn.
Speaker 2: It's not too much to ask. That's who we are as.
Speaker 2: Ohio wants to reward hard work, to reward meritocracy, to
Speaker 2: reward capitalism. I think true capitalism. I'm talking about state
Speaker 2: sponsored or crony capitalism. You're talking about true capitalism. That's
Speaker 2: what I stand for. And you know, I'll tell you
Speaker 2: this is I'm grateful that that's the message that so
Speaker 2: many have been able to rally around. The day A
Speaker 2: launched this campaign, I was honored to get President Trump's endorsement,
Speaker 2: and since then it's only been you know, all of
Speaker 2: the Congressmen who have endorsed both chambers of the Republicans
Speaker 2: in both the House and the Senate, and the state
Speaker 2: and all the way up and down. We are united.
Speaker 2: We're ready for this mission. We're ready to lead Ohio
Speaker 2: to our future, to a population boom, to an economic
Speaker 2: boom of a kind that we haven't seen since the
Speaker 2: first Industrial Revolution, to a revival of educational achievement in
Speaker 2: our state. And yes, Brian, that is achievable if we
Speaker 2: have a governor who rolls up the sleeves and focuses
Speaker 2: on it. And all we're going to have to do
Speaker 2: is bring that level of energy to the leadership of
Speaker 2: our state. And I do think it's going to require
Speaker 2: a new generation of leaders. And you know what, I
Speaker 2: think it time to turn the page on the future,
Speaker 2: building on the foundations of the past. I'm not going
Speaker 2: to criticize my predecessors at all, to the contrary to
Speaker 2: compliment them for their accomplishments. But I'm going to build
Speaker 2: on that foundation to lead our state to our future.
Speaker 2: And that's coming up as soon as we win this election.
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Speaker 1: look forward to seeinging next Thursday at the Lincoln Rank
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Speaker 1: I'll look forward to having you back in the morning
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