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Trump Endorses Vivek Ramaswamy: Dumb things Dave Yost and Amy Acton said

Again, I don’t want to see Dave Yost embarrass himself because I like the guy, the current Attorney General of Ohio.  But one of his biggest problems that was obvious to me when I went to his governor run announcement event was that he’s out of step with a skipping record, just a little too late on everything and slightly off-kilter with the flow of reality.  Under normal conditions, he might be able to run for governor and win, especially against the person the Democrats are going to put up, Amy Acton.  But these aren’t regular times.  I’m supporting Vivek Ramaswamy for Governor of Ohio, and the GOP should get behind him and make it happen.  Vivek is going to be governor no matter what any opposition tries to do to prevent it.  On the same day that Vivek announced he was running from West Chester, Ohio, President Trump came out immediately and endorsed Vivek to settle the issue and let all the other GOP contenders know where the President’s heart was on the matter.  And the person who wins in Ohio, no matter how good Vivek Ramaswamy is, will be the person President Trump picks.  The Trump endorsement is crucial because voters will rally to whoever that is. And for the Governor race of Ohio in 2026, it is Vivek Ramaswamy.  And to make sure nobody gets any funny ideas, Vivek Ramaswamy will be all over the media and state in an overwhelming fashion to make sure that he gets a chance to meet everyone he could possibly meet along the way.  He has been doing media on television almost every day since his announcement, which shows that he will work hard to win people’s votes.  Vivek will not take anything for granted, and he will win the election and be Ohio’s next governor. 

Vivek/Lang has a nice ring to it, I think

But upon hearing that Vivek was running, Dave Yost said some foolish things that won’t help him and actually make that skipping record syndrome much worse, and I have to warn him that if he wants a political future, he needs to not say such dumb things.  Among these was his attack on Vivek and trying to paint him as someone who starts a lot of projects but never finishes them, such as dropping out of the Presidential race, dropping out of D.O.G.E. with Elon Musk, and moving his company STRIVE to Texas because Ohio costs too much to do business in.  Yost is trying to portray Ramaswamy as a quitter.  But instead, Yost showed himself grotesquely out of touch as he didn’t get the GOP memo.  I learned about Vivek Ramaswamy’s running for governor with an early morning phone call two weeks before Christmas of 2024.  Something of a deal was made, and Trump wanted Vivek Ramaswamy to be Ohio’s governor because the goal was for the Trump economy to turn a Rust Belt state into one of the world’s tech leaders.  It’s the home state of J.D. Vance, who many in the MAGA movement would like to see carry the torch of the next four years of Trump.  Vivek is the right guy to bring all those elements together in Ohio.  Yost pointed out that Vivek dropped out of the presidential race after a fourth-place showing in Iowa, as if that said everything.  But the reality was that Vivek, while running for President, never went after Trump but was loyal the entire time.  So, Vivek wasn’t an either-or candidate but was a continuation of the MAGA movement, and if that were the criterion, people would have rather had Trump finish what was started during the first term.  Vivek instead ran on a MAGA platform to build on the issue rather than try to corrode it away with debate.

Most people who are affiliated with the GOP know about this Trump arrangement.  I asked my sources if I could talk about it, and they said I could, so it wasn’t super secret.  Mike DeWine, Ohio’s current governor, was then called to Mar-a-Lago to meet with Trump.  He and Jon Husted did this, and the deal was made.  DeWine would appoint Husted to the vacant senate seat left behind by Vance so that he wouldn’t be destroyed by Vivek becoming governor because Husted wanted to run too.  Trump is the party’s leader and will likely remain that way for the rest of his life.  He is the one who won that right, and people need to follow that vision.  Vivek Ramaswamy also had to do that to run for governor of a state when he wanted to be president.  That’s how you build successful teams, and all these guys played their part in creating a bigger vision of what the MAGA movement would be like after Trump was no longer in the White House.  But to make the most of it while he was there.  Time is short, opportunities are limited, and Dave Yost, to be wise, should hitch his wagon to one of these Trump strategies and not stick himself on the outside looking in.  Because once the window closes, it will close forever.  The Ohio GOP doesn’t need a media-driven mess for the upcoming primary.  It requires a unified party with the hands of Trump on it, and Dave Yost needs to find a place in it, not out of it, for his own good.  That’s the only warning shot I’ll give. If he didn’t know that Vivek was running, then that’s even worse because everyone else did, and it only shows how out of step he is, made even worse by every day that he does not get behind Vivek Ramaswamy. 

Then there is the Democrat Amy Acton and her dumb comments about Vivek as if she knows how to run against him.  I’ll make a prediction: She is going to be crushed by the debate skills of Vivek Ramaswamy.  Acton is the former Health Director of the State of Ohio appointed by DeWine, which caused all kinds of problems with COVID-19.  Amy Acton shut down Ohio as one of the leaders of all states to be the first to lockdown, which was standard of all the Democrat led states.  Only Ohio was supposed to be a red state.  DeWine allowed himself to be suckered by the stringy hair hippie style of Yellow Springs politics that Amy Acton represents, and it won’t go well for her.  I’m looking forward to it because Vivek can tell a story about her that has not been told yet.  She would have been wise to stay under a rock for what she did to Ohio during COVID-19, but she’s the best Democrats have, which says a lot about them.  She is running, but I don’t think the Democrats have any idea of what kind of buzz saw they are going to run into with this one.  Trump has his ideas about it because Ohio did lockdown during his last year in office, making it much harder for him to keep the nation together during that crisis.  So he will support Vivek vivaciously; let me just put it nicely.  Once everyone is done with Amy Acton, there won’t be a rock in the world to hide under, and she will not be able to hide her shame for the rest of her life, which she deserves.  And that’s just how it’s all going to go down.  So plan accordingly. 

Rich Hoffman

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Dave Yost Has No Chance: Calling me a fraud won’t make an unlikable person appealing

I support Vivek Ramaswamy for the Governor of Ohio in any way possible.  I was all in before I had a chance to talk to him the other day, and after spending some time with him, I’m more convinced than ever.  For me, he’s like getting Trump to run Ohio.  But Vivek is great on his own, and he is what I would call the next generation of MAGA political candidates.  I have liked Dave Yost, the current attorney general.  But there are a lot of reservations that put him in the clear RINO category.  In a head-to-head matchup between Yost and Ramaswamy, I see it coming out like it did in 2016 with Trump against Jeb Bush.  And in the end, I think a political fight with Vivek Ramaswamy will destroy the career of Dave Yost, and I didn’t want to see that, at least until they sent me a nasty letter the other day complaining about my support of Vivek through a video I did.  I usually get a lot of hate mail, and I never come close to answering them all, but this one was different due to the content of the political fight to come, and it changed any sympathy I had for Dave Yost into primal aggression and a desire to see him destroyed.  I have been keeping thoughts about Dave Yost and what he did to the former Butler County Auditor Roger Reynolds tucked away, and this whole event resurrected it for me as a primary concern.  I’m not running for office, so I don’t have to be as nice as Vivek wants to be to his political enemies.  And as good as he is, he’s going to win the governor race of Ohio without too much difficulty.  But as I have done in regard to Trump, reporting things in context so people can feel good about voting for Ramaswamy when critics say otherwise is something I will certainly do for the future Governor of Ohio, Vivek Ramaswamy.  

So the Yost Campaign insinuated that I’m some fraud for the video I did discussing the announcement of running for governor by Vivek Ramaswamy a day before the event occurred.  They thought that was a misleading tactic because I couldn’t have possibly known that the event would be packed with supporters on the day before the event occurred.  Now, I have a lot of experience with the media, and if I wasn’t good at so many other things, I would probably have carved out a career in media myself.  But to be truthful, and I know this from many friends in the media that I have who were major superstars, the pay isn’t that great.  So I do a lot of other things; media for me is for the good of it.  Not the pay of it.  But it’s common practice to pre-write articles before a deadline and even to shoot a promo video ahead of an event when you want the material to reach audiences near or right after the event you are discussing.  And that was the case here.  In West Chester, Ohio, at CTL Aerospace, we had a big announcement rally for Vivek Ramaswamy that ended around 6:30 PM.  My blog is read daily by many people who want to know my thoughts on the latest topic. It goes up every day at 7 PM.  So I had to have most of it ready to go to beat my deadline.  I could adjust any changes to the reporting beforehand.  But for that article and video, I talked about the things that I knew were going to be true.  And I would know because I was one of the organizers of the event.  

A pretty dumb idea on their part. But it’s a free world.

Before the weekend of Vivek’s announcement on the following Monday, the 24th of February, I knew that there were 1200 RSVPs who had gone online to indicate they were coming and to be put on the list.  I also knew the space we had set up for Vivek was only supposed to hold 500 people.  So, doing the video announcement I did for the event, I knew it would be very crowded.  And as it turned out, it was worse than I said.  There was a line down and around the building and as people were trying to get in I had more than 500 text messages and phone calls between the hour of 4 PM and 5 PM, which I couldn’t take, because I was talking to Vivek Ramaswamy along with a few other people about what was going to happen during his speech.  It took me two days after the rally to answer most of them.  I never got to some because I wasn’t sure who they all were. But the ones I did know, I eventually, at least, answered.  I was at the Dave Yost announcement for Governor when he did it at the Elks Club near my home in Liberty Township, and it was nothing like this.  Dave had difficulty getting more than seven or eight people to stand in line to get a picture with him.  There may have been a few hundred people who came; honestly, I felt sorry for him. To support him, which I planned to do until Vivek came along, I knew that Dave Yost would have a significant enthusiasm problem.  He just wasn’t very exciting.  He acted like an out-of-touch politician who put on a cowboy hat to appeal to the meat-and-potato people, but he had an assumption of doing the time and a pretention of entitlement that he deserved to be Governor and that the Republican party owed it to him.

Senator Lang, and Secretary of State Frank LaRose endorsing Vivek Ramaswamy at CTL Aerospace

There is a lot of good stuff to discuss regarding Vivek Ramaswamy, and I certainly will.  I’ve met him several times, and at this event, he had a good memory of some of our history together.  The reason he chose CTL Aerospace is because of a story he shares with me, and Nancy Nix, George Lang and a few others at the start of his decision to get into politics, which I knew before his speech, was why he was coming back to start his run for governor at that location.  So we had a good talk, and I got to know his wife a bit more than in the past, and let me say, she is solid goodness in every way you can imagine.  She is sharp and very friendly.  I like the Ramaswamys as a family and as people, and it is those kind of people, if they want to, who should be in tough jobs like the Governor of Ohio.  Vivek is the kind of political figure I have been looking for in these positions for years, so I’m going to get fully behind his campaign, and that’s why I was one of the event coordinators and venue providers.  I personally liked Vivek before his announcement, in a very personal way.  And I am more supportive after hearing his speech if possible.  And to my way of thinking, Vivek is a lot nicer than I am.  And I would say a lot more forgiving; anybody who gets in the way of him running Ohio must be destroyed.  And if Dave Yost wants to go there, or his not very smart people, then that’s on them.  They can deal with the aftermath. 

Not to get into personal details, I normally don’t talk about things I say in private with people, but this is probably important in regard to Vivek Ramaswamy.  When we were talking, he asked me, “Rich, what do you want from me?”  I said to him, “I want 16 years out of you.  8 years as governor of Ohio.  And 8 years as President of the United States.  And at the end of it, you won’t yet be 60.  That sounds like a pretty good life to me.”  And he said, “Yes it does, let’s see how all this goes.”  And to all that, I will do my part to help see that it all goes well.

Rich Hoffman

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Dave Yost for Ohio Governor: The world needs people wearing more cowboy hats

I think it’s a great idea, with Attorney General Dave Yost of Ohio becoming the next governor.  I thought it was even better when I attended a recent event for Yost where the announcement was formally made, and I saw that he was wearing a cowboy hat.  That’s what the future of Ohio needs, and America in general in a post-Biden, second term of Trump, are more people wearing cowboy hats because, to me, cowboy hats stand for Truth, Justice, and the American Way.  Growing up, that was always the mantra of Superman, and I knew there was trouble in the 1990s when comic book publishers and entertainment producers stopped letting anybody say that term because they knew what they were up to.  Globalism was about destroying personal references of excellence, whether individual or national, and Superman’s statement was undoubtedly against the new rules of global citizenship.  But when I wear a cowboy hat, that is what I think about and want to project to the world: Truth, Justice, and the American Way.  And when Trump is back in office, that is on the menu, and it will need to be for many years.  I would consider it the top issue of our modern times.  And the entire world is looking to us to be all that and, even more, to carry a light for them to follow into eternity.  But first, we must survive the present and a dark menace that has permeated the human race since the dawn of time.  And to beat it, the world needs a few more cowboy hats.  And I was thrilled to see many people, including the Attorney General, wearing a cowboy hat to this event in Butler County in the middle of June 2024, just a few months ahead of the Trump election for a second term. 

It’s been a while since I spoke to Sheriff Jones, one of the people at the Yost event.  Over the years, we have gotten along on some issues very well but not so much on others.  However, as it has come up often recently, as there have been a lot of contentious fights within the Butler County Republican Party, the trick is that we want a big tent.  And with a big tent, there are many people who come from a variety of backgrounds and commitment levels.  There are some very passionate people in the Republican Party, especially at the Central Committee level, who live, breathe, and will crawl through broken glass naked to fight for what’s right, and they have very little tolerance for a political class that is in it for the money, fame, or power that comes with holding a public office.  But, we do need money, fame, and some level of ruthlessness to solve many of the problems that we have in the world, which is why I have been saying since 2015 that Trump would be the best representative for the head of the Republican Party.  Getting here has been a long journey, and I want to see a big tent Republican Party.  I tend to find things I have in common with people when I do team-building activities.  I stay away from the things I disagree with.  When Sheriff Jones and I talked a bit, we agreed on a lot, especially in law and order.  Which I think will be a significant theme in America over the next decade.  I want a strong sheriff in my community, a big, imposing guy, and a gunslinger, to be honest.  And one who supports gunslingers to ensure that we have Truth, Justice, and the American Way preserved for future generations, no matter what.  Defenders of the Constitution need to be ruthlessly vigorous toward committing to justice for all.  I also want a strong attorney general.  I want strong members of the Senate and representatives.  And I want a powerful governor on the frontier of law and order.  Crime and illegal immigration that have expanded the drug trade are core problems that will take vigilance in lofty quantities.

I am even more strict than the Sheriff regarding the death penalty for crimes. But Jones is pretty close to my own thoughts. Save money with the trial and court lawyers. Justice is what matters most.

I was proud of Sheriff Jones and his bit on Fox Nation, which was very good and played at this event.  That is what all sheriffs in America should strive to be.  Jones projected on a big stage how I wanted Butler County, Ohio, to be known to the world, and he has managed to maintain a big platform that projects that commitment to law and order to a corrupt world that might think better of bringing their mess to our community.  But if they do, we must be ready to deal with them.  Jones has a plan for that, too, which we talked about.  I am perfectly fine with discussing philosophical differences in a big-tent Republican Party with people all over the spectrum of ideology.  But to do that, we have to beat the bad guys, which the Republican Party can certainly rally behind and will need to do in the coming months and years.   And if Sheriff Jones calls me, he has my number, day or night, and requires some community support to pursue law and order, I am there, by the bucket load—no question or hesitation.  I am happy that we have him as a sheriff and a police force to deal with threats to our lives and livelihoods.  But sometimes they need our help, and he knows from me that he has that help anytime, especially if diabolical terrorists are running around from dumb, dumb Biden’s open border policies intent on the destruction of America by hostile domestic enemies, such as George Soros and his mega-donors of billionaires from the World Economic Forum.  Failure is not an option when it comes to law and order. 

I have heard about this Dave Yost for Governor ticket for a while now, and I like how it is shaping up.  I don’t know who else from the Republican Party is planning to make a serious run; the Attorney General is the first to make his intentions known, as it does take a few years to build up the brand for such a thing.  And I like some of the people becoming part of that Yost ticket.  I am becoming increasingly excited about it day by day.  By the time that election happens, Trump will be in year two of his second term, and there are a lot of bad guys in the world who need justice brought to their doorsteps. I want Ohio to be one of those states.  As I saw Dave Yost greeting people in his cowboy hat, and tall, imposing body, I could see a future that looked much brighter than the one we had been dealing with.  These dark days of Biden could be coming to an end along with all the domestic terrorism of Barack Obama and his band of misfits from the Weather Underground.  I want someone like Dave Yost working with the Trump administration in that governor’s seat.  Sheriff Jones is on board and has been working with Trump for a long time.  Butler County is covered, but we need all of Ohio headed in that direction. So yes, we put our disagreements aside and put the party first, and we had a group hug.   We needed it because justice is required; there are plenty of bad guys to go after, and we will.  And on that, we can all agree. 

Rich Hoffman

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