Vivek Ramaswamy Floats New Run For Office
Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy sparked speculation about his political future during a packed town hall meeting on Thursday evening.
While the town hall covered various topics, the conversation eventually focused on immigration, a hot-button issue across the country. Ramaswamy, an Ohio native, has previously voiced strong opinions on border security and immigration reform, aligning with many who have been vocal about the need for stricter policies.
Speaking to a crowd at the Bushnell Event Center, Ramaswamy hinted at a possible gubernatorial run after being asked directly if he would consider running for Governor of Ohio. “Are you going to run for Governor of Ohio?” asked one town hall attendee.
“I’m a little more inclined than I was about 10 seconds ago,” Ramaswamy joked, drawing a standing ovation from the audience. The comment came during an open forum where Ramaswamy fielded questions from the Springfield community. The event drew hundreds of attendees, many of whom were unable to enter due to the venue’s capacity limits.
Springfield, a city that has recently found itself caught up in the 2024 political conversation, welcomed Ramaswamy’s engagement with the community. His remarks and openness to considering a gubernatorial bid in his home state signaled that the entrepreneur and political newcomer is not done with politics, despite bowing out of the 2024 presidential race.
Ramaswamy is the latest Republican to draw attention to the embattled midwestern town where he met with residents including one mother who told him her daughter was recently chased by a migrant wielding a machete. A clip of the town hall circulating on X shows the woman telling the former presidential candidate that she fears for the lives of her two daughters as their town has descended into chaos following an influx of migrants and the corresponding media circus.
Some of the newly arrived migrant men are targeting young girls like hers, the woman told Ramaswamy. “She’s been followed around Walmart, she’s been stalked, she ran to her car, threw stuff down, she was chased. They were immigrants. She was chased by a man with a machete on her way to work,” the woman said. Police took more than two hours to respond after her daughter first called to report the threat, the woman added. “That’s how you know there’s no crime in Springfield, because no one’s reporting it.” A bustling audience applauded her story.
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“It’s uncomfortable to say this, but it’s true. If your first act of entering the country breaks the law, then you’re more likely to break the law when you’re already here,” Ramaswamy said. When liberals tried to “nail” President Trump on the “family separation policy” enacted during his first term, they conveniently ignored that America currently incarcerates 350,000 mothers. “You know who we don’t make them take with them? Their children.”
“I think we have to restore the culture of a rule of law in this country. In this town alone, double the number of shoplifting crimes in the last two years. Auto thefts are up by over 50% in that same timeframe, and as you said in your daughter’s story that’s against the backdrop of many of them likely even going unreported… Part of the reason we’re seeing this too, is many other illegal immigrants in this country, when they see the top law enforcement agencies in this country, themselves not following the law, then they rightly ask themselves the question ‘so why would I have to follow the law anyway?’” he asked.
