Ramaswamy's $25 million investment may blow up in his face with Ohio voters: reporter
Vivek Ramaswamy, GOP presidential candidate, speaks at Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina (Alex Hicks Jr. for REUTERS)
May 06, 2026
During a report from MS NOW on the problems Republicans are facing in normally red Ohio due to the economic woes brought on by Donald Trump, MS NOW’s Will McDuffie found voters who are skeptical of GOP gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and predicted his path to office could become even more problematic.
McDuffie, who has been doing man-on-the-street interviews with disgruntled Ohio voters, some of whom have claimed they have had to go back to work involuntarily because the cost of living has gone through the roof, with one Trump voter claiming, “I’m on disability, and they yell at me for going to work, but I don’t have a choice. It’s either I go to work, or we don’t eat.”
In light of that, the MS NOW journalist called Ramaswamy an “an interesting candidate” who is leaning on his Donald Trump endorsement to push him over the finish line with cash-strapped voters — particularly with his flooding his campaign from his personal fortune.
“He actually cleared the field in the in the primary early on when he first announced, but he's putting in 25 million of his own dollars,” he reported. “And you wonder if that might raise concerns when voters here are struggling on the other side.”