Vivek Ramaswamy (Right) and Dave Yost (Left) are running for governor as Republicans in Ohio. (Getty Images)
"I was DOGE before DOGE was cool," Yost said, adding later that "virtually nobody" he talks to in Ohio is opposed to the fraud and waste spending that is taking place with DOGE amid vocal Democratic pushback.
Yost also touted his record on crime and public corruption as the state’s attorney general since 2019 and suggested his experience differentiates him from Ramaswamy.
"We've been fighting for the Constitution, for the rights of Ohioans, fighting public corruption," Yost said. "More than 170 people have gone to jail because of my work and the work of my team. So, we've been in the trenches. We don't need on-the-job training, and I think that that record of results is going to make a difference for Ohioans."
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Vivek Ramaswamy speaks before Republican presidential nominee former U.S. President Donald Trump takes the stage at the campaign rally at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2024, in New York City. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"We've got all these different sports teams. We already have three of them now, since the Browns said we want $600 million. The Bengals come forward, and they want $350 million, and FC Cincinnati is saying, ‘Well, what about us?’ And pretty soon, we're spending billions of dollars on sports stadiums that are used in one town a few days a year, when we could be spending that money on any number of other things, whether we're talking about roads, bridges, economic development, whether we're talking schools, or we're talking about tax cuts. None of this makes sense to me. We at least need a plan and a limit. Right now, it looks like the candy store is just open."
Fox News Digital asked Yost what he hears most often when he travels the state talking to voters, and he said that the economy and "kitchen table" issues are most prevalent, but pointed out that Trump’s tariff policies, which have been much maligned by the Democrats, are more popular than the media lets on.
"Right now, everybody's watching as the world economy is being reordered, and unlike what I'm hearing from the disaster predicted by the elite press on the coasts, it's a much different situation on the ground in Ohio," Yost said. "I talk to a lot of businesses that think that this is going to be good for them, that the fair and reciprocal kinds of trade are going to bring a new resurgence to Ohio and to their industries, even though they see some pain and that's what everybody's talking about right now."
Ultimately, Yost told Fox News Digital that he believes that his "record of results" shows that he is the candidate with the "experience and the vision and the know-how" to "bring Ohio to the bright future that's out there for us."
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