A year before Ohio goes to the election to choose its governor, the pitch heats up with Republican candidate Indian-origin Vivek Ramaswamy and Democrat candidate Dr Amy Acton exchanging barbs. Acton re-upped Ramaswamy’s 2024 post on H-1B and reminded the voters that Ramaswamy called Americans, including Ohioans, lazy and mediocre. “Vivek Ramaswamy told us how he really feels when he said that Ohioans aren’t succeeding because they’re lazy and mediocre and watching too much TV,” Acton posted. “That couldn’t be further from what I’m seeing on the ground every day. Ohioans are working harder than ever, they’re doing everything right, and they just can’t get enough breathing room. Ohio needs a governor who listens, understands, and who is ready to bring down costs on day one,” Acton added.Ramaswamy, in his reply, referred to Dr Acton as Dr Lockdown and said she made Ohio shut down during Covid, leading to businesses suffering. “Dr Lockdown led Ohio to be the *first* state in the nation to shut down public schools during Covid. Students suffered. Small businesses suffered. Families suffered. Now she wants to ruin our state again. She’s never coming anywhere near the levers of power in our state again,” Ramaswany said.“Take a moment & hear Dr. Lockdown speak, in her own words. It’s worse than Kamala. Her pitch is she’ll be the first woman Governor of Ohio (which is itself wrong, that was Nancy Hollister). But it’s a deflection from her toxic record: Covid lockdowns that shut down our schools & businesses, then lying about the death rates to justify it. Never again,” Vivek made another post.
Vivek Ramaswamy and H-1B controversy
Even a year after his controversial post, Vivek Ramaswamy is yet to come out of its shadow while a new H-1B controversy has started. And this time, President Donald Trump’s statement is at the center of the row. Trump said America needs certain kinds of foreign skills and many experts observed that Vivek Ramaswamy, too, said the same thing last year. After burning his fingers in last year’s controversy, Ramaswamy did not say anything on H-1B since the announcement of his gubernatorial bid. But he is still sidelined in MAGA who wants him to fail only because of his Indian origin. President Trump made it clear that Ramaswamy has his full endorsement, and the GOP will not change its candidate. A poll, conducted on behalf of the Ohio Federation of Teachers, recently claimed Acton has a higher favorability among Ohio likely voters, including a potentially key 21-point advantage among independent voters, but Ramaswamy’s campaign has disputed these results.
