It was never a question for me if Vivek Ramaswamy was running for office; now that Trump has regained the White House, I’m all in. He is a unique talent and part of what I consider a new generation of political class. He’s been close to Trump for several years now and as an original D.O.G.E. founding member, he is driven by the same kind of concern for American preservation as Elon Musk. So when I got a call to help connect the dots for Vivek’s announcement for governor, I was immediately supportive and excited to lend that support. When I was showing Vivek’s coordinators possible sites to host an announcement rally, I took them to a spot that would hold around 2000 people, which they thought was ambitious. They were looking for something more intimate, for around 500 people. After all, this was just a governor’s announcement race for a state. How many people could show up? Before Vivek got into the gubernatorial race, I had supported David Yost, the current Attorney General. Yost is a good guy and, under normal conditions, would be a good pick as an office holder. However, these are not normal conditions, and we are looking for an exceptional officeholder because George Lang’s Business First Caucus has planted the seeds for Ohio to become the number one economy. And knowing what I do about Trump, he has put eyes on Ohio to go from a rust belt state to a tech giant quickly. So, many things are lining up to unleash greatness that isn’t being discussed on the nightly news. And I knew before he did it that Vivek Ramaswamy was planning to run for governor of Ohio and would be stepping away from D.O.G.E., from people at Mar-a-Lago who told me in early December of 2024.
So, I wasn’t surprised to get the call from Vivek Ramaswamy to make his big announcement at CTL Aerospace. There’s a backstory to it that could fill a book, but when my phone rang, I was somewhat expecting it. So we settled on a spot with his coordinators to hold around 500 people because that would be considered a good crowd for something like this. But within a few days, my thoughts about 2000 people suddenly got much more attention. The RSVP for the event quickly shot to over 1000 people; by the time everything started at 4:30 PM, there were people everywhere. It was more like a Trump rally than anything else. Seeing all this, I instantly felt a little sorry for David Yost, the only GOP challenger to Vivek for that governor seat. When I was at his launch announcement, it was hard even to set up a photo line because there weren’t many people. I attributed it to being too far out; Yost wanted to stake his claim early to ward off possible challengers. But with Vivek in the race, Yost doesn’t have any chance. Without question, Trump wants Vivek Ramaswamy to run for governor of Ohio, so any endorsements going to anybody will go in that direction. Yost is holding on to hope that because Trump was supportive of him in the past, he would support him for a run for governor. No, Vivek is Trump’s guy, and he has the support of the MAGA crowd, who showed up to a spillover event to put their excitement toward an exciting opportunity. And it turned out to be quite a media spectacle that traveled quickly around the world.
I don’t talk about it much; my approach to all these things has been to put my head down, push through the opposition, and defeat my political enemies. I’ve been doing these things for a long time, and as I was telling old war stories to the organizers of Vivek’s event because it was all about the backstory of when Vivek came to CTL Aerospace five years before when almost nobody knew who he was, and I was very involved in the Tea Party, Trump didn’t always get these massive crowds. I would see Trump here and there as a member of the Reform Party, and he’d have a decent crowd at those events because he was on television and had written a few books. But it was nothing like what we saw with his GOP presidential run in 2016, 2020, and 2024. And I was seeing the same kind of trajectory for Vivek Ramaswamy. We’re not discussing just four years of Trump in the White House representing the MAGA movement. We’re looking at those four years, plus another 16 years between Vivek Ramaswamy and J.D. Vance, who could easily make all the Executive Orders that Trump has been signing into law. This was all about momentum and planning for the future. Not a short-term pop, Vivek would apply what he would do as a future president to the State of Ohio to show the world what it could look like. At this point, he had written four great books about economic health in society in general, and he was eager to put all that into practice. And that was being announced at CTL Aerospace in West Chester, Ohio, for the world to see.
As I talked to people a few nights earlier at the Nancy Nix fundraiser, I was given a hard time because I wasn’t wearing my cowboy hat—especially from Sheriff Jones. Usually, at those kinds of events, two people wear cowboy hats: Jones and myself. But this time, people noticed I just showed up in my suit, not some ostentatious gunslinger outfit. And they wanted to know why. Well, that’s because we are winning, and when you are in such a condition, you don’t have to sell ambition to people; they are already there. It is fun for a change to see all these great things happening, with Trump every day, with Elon Musk, and now with Vivek Ramaswamy essentially being governor of Ohio, where all of George Lang’s challenging work will finally pay off for the people of the formally known rust belt state. As I explained my lack of a hat, I offered everyone a feeling of contentment with where our nation was going. The woke monsters of our world have not gone away, but they have been defeated, and people are showing that they have no desire to return to their ominous tyranny. And I think that people like Vivek Ramaswamy in the Ohio Statehouse, then in the future White House, will take what Trump has done and expand on it for a goodness nobody can yet see. But I see it. I had significant time with Vivek at this West Chester event, and I can see it in his eyes. Yes, we have many good things coming, and people see them. It showed up in the massive crowd at the West Chester announcement, and I feel content for the first time in years as if all the work everyone puts into these kinds of things was suddenly worth it. And as to my lack of a hat, it’s not that I will change my appearance publicly. But sometimes, I want to enjoy myself, which I did at Nancy’s event and Vivek Ramaswamy’s announcement rally. Great things are coming, and it feels good to witness them up close and personally, and to just take it all in and enjoy the journey.
Rich Hoffman
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This is pathetic. You recorded this video before the event. The Rumble time stamp shows this, and your video shows the snow on the ground over the weekend. The snow has disappeared in West Chester, and now that it’s Tuesday it’s a bit too hot out for the jacket you have on.
You repeatedly state in this video that the event had occurred, it was a great event, and people were bunched up outside because they couldn’t get in.
Yet, you recorded this video prior to the event.
Have you always been such a fraud, Rich Hoffman?
If you are to be believed (and that is highly doubtful), you are an advisor to the Ramaswamy campaign. Perhaps it’s time for the Ramaswamy campaign to have more respect for voters.
Sincerely, The Yost Campaign
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Yeah, you aren’t going to win anybody that way. I have been very supportive of Dave Yost, so its a bad move to take the slash and burn approach. I was with Dave when he announced his run for governor and he struggled to attract people to that event. For your benefit, I put a picture of the line at Vivek’s event up. It was a mess, in a good way. Since I was one of the organizers I saw in the week leading up to it how many people were planning to come through online RSVP. I also had the press release on all the speech topics, so I did what most in the media do, I prepared most of the content ahead of time. Then I would make adjustments before going to press. The event ended at 6 or so. I was very busy dealing with everything. And my article comes out every night at 7 pm. So I did some pre-work then toned things up after the events, before the deadline.
Now, I was willing to give Dave Yost a fair shake. I even like him. But I don’t like what he did to Roger Reynolds. There are lots of things to pick on him over. I wouldn’t want to damage his political capital because I think he can do some good things. But if he stays in the governor race, he’ll be done for the rest of his life. Trump has already announced for Vivek. And if Yost knew anything going on behind the scenes, he would have known that all this was going to happen with Trump many weeks ago, two weeks before Christmas as a matter of fact. And it will be the Trump endorsement all by itself that will decide who wins the governor race in Ohio.
But, Vivek is a very good, exceptional candidate. I like him as a person. I like his wife, she is very nice and classy. I’m supportive of Vivek in whatever he wants to do. I told him yesterday when we met before the event, he asked me what I wanted him to do. I told him I wanted 16 years out of him, 8 years as governor, and 8 years as President. If he did all that, he wouldn’t even be 60 years old when it was all over. And we’d have 20 years of the MAGA agenda. So I’m going to help Vivek and the MAGA agenda with everything I have. Dave Yost is not part of the MAGA agenda. He has abused his office, especially in the Roger Reynolds case, and people aren’t going to forgive him for it. With Vivek as an option, Dave Yost is just going to embarrass himself. And if he thinks he’s going to try intimidation tactics to advance, he will just turn off voters and he’ll never break 20%. He’s not a likeable person. Without Sheriff Jones to prop him up, he’s stiff as cardboard. And in the south, Jones has had his own problems. The central committees turned against him and Yost could easily find himself in the same boat. He has no chance on a good day, with Vivek in the race. Until Vivek came along I was willing to support him, but with my nose held. Vivek is far better and its an extension of Trump’s agenda for Ohio.
I obviously care about Yost, otherwise I wouldn’t put this much effort into a reply. Do what you want. But if he digs in, he’ll lose everything, and I don’t want to see that for him.
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Interesting that you didn’t answer the fact that you recorded this prior to the event. What a fraud you are.
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