Columbus, Ohio—Vivek Ramaswamy is on a mission to make Ohio the state everyone is talking about by making it affordable for young people.

On Wednesday, the Republican candidate for governor spoke at a Young Republicans meeting where he was joined by Senate President Rob McColley, his lieutenant governor running mate.

Affordability is the Name of the Game

Ramaswamy’s campaign is focusing on affordability.

The entrepreneur stressed to The Daily Signal that he aims to deliver “lower costs, bigger paychecks, and better schools.”

He spoke about the future he envisions for Ohio: a state where young people and their children choose to stay.

The success that Ramaswamy aims to achieve won’t happen in “some distant future,” he assured.

“As soon as we get into office, we’re going to be able to clear the culture of red tape,” he offered. “We’re going to be able to get a lot of the excess government overgrowth out of the way. Make home ownership more affordable, bring down those electric bills, put more money in your pockets, both figuratively and literally.”

Ramaswamy also explained how affordability now will be linked to Ohio’s future success. “Under our watch, a new generation of leadership in Ohio will pave the way for the next generation of leaders in Ohio to make our state the top state in the country to raise a young family, to grow your income, to get a job, to become an entrepreneur, to grow a business, and one day to give your own kids a world class education right here in our state,” he enthusiastically told the crowd.

It’s Ohio’s Turn

Ramaswamy said he wants to make Ohio a model for conservative governance like Texas and Florida.

While he praised those states, Ramaswamy noted it’s time for Ohio to be a model for the nation, one businesses seek out.

It’s a plan that Ramaswamy believes young Republicans can help him achieve. As Ramaswamy told attendees, they can be “the generation that leads Ohio to be the state that actually paves the path for our country, not Texas, not Florida.”

“What we have going for us is Ohio is actually a far more affordable state to realize the American dream than a lot of where young people have gone in the past,” Ramaswamy told The Daily Signal. “And so we have that going in our favor, but part of my job as governor, Rob [McColley’s] job as lieutenant governor, is to both deliver policies that create incentives for those young people to stay here, but also to do a better job of marketing our state to the rest of the country.”

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