Vivek Ramaswamy has announced his bid to become Ohio's next governor. He joins Charlie to lay out his vision for how AI, radical school choice, and other reforms can make the Ohio River Valley into the next Silicon Valley. Plus, Charlie delivers a sizzling highlight from his recently resumed campus tour, and the Alliance Defending Freedom gives an update on the aftermath of a Turning Point event disrupted by an antifa mob. Watch ad-free on members.charliekirk.com! Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: Who is Vivek Ramaswamy and what is his vision for Ohio?
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Joining us now is Kristen Wagoner, President, CEO, and General Counsel of Alliance Defending Freedom. Kristen, walk us through what's going on at the University of Memphis, what happened last evening, and the reason that we decided to kind of call the bluff of University of Memphis regarding Kyle Rittenhouse.
Well, last night was a tremendous victory for TPUSA, Kyle Rittenhouse, and the right to speak freely on our college campuses. I think we have to go back to really a year ago, last March in 2024, when the TPUSA chapter at the University of Memphis decided to sponsor an event with Kyle Rittenhouse.
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Chapter 2: What happened at the University of Memphis with Kyle Rittenhouse?
I think that signals the mandate to say that people are behind the conservative pro-American agenda. Now, my job as the governor of this state is to explain it to people. Frankly, I think there's a lot of independents, libertarians, orphaned Reagan Democrats, other orphaned Democrats, politically homeless people here who may not have thought of themselves as that Republican coalition quite yet.
But if you explain it to them, if you actually show up, if you don't go through the traditional media filters, but just show up in person. I mean, we're drawing thousands of people. Great, I'll use that to our advantage to go to all 88 counties and explain it without filters in between. I want a big tent coalition where a lot of those former Democrats and current independents come along with us.
And if they don't want to call themselves Republicans right now, I'm fine with that. But I want to create a governing coalition that doesn't compromise on those core principles. That's actually going to make us even more successful in winning, I hope, in a landslide next year in the general.
And that's what I'm shooting for, is not just running for the Republican primary, but to win a general election that brings the majority of the rest of this state along as well.
You mentioned this briefly. We have two minutes remaining. One of the great challenges for governors and, of course, on the federal level is going to how to incorporate artificial intelligence. Ohio is a unique place because, as you say, it was the advent of the Industrial Revolution. You could argue we are on the precipice of an artificial intelligence revolution.
Now, firstly, I think you guys are uniquely positioned because you have the natural resources, the land, and the geography to have data centers that would employ hundreds of thousands of people. But that's only one part of it. That is the backbone. That's the infrastructure. That is the meat and potatoes of AI, which is important. And I think Ohio will flourish because of it.
But what about the application? How could AI— revitalize Hubbard, Ohio? How could AI revitalize Mahoney County, the forgotten counties of Ohio?
I love it. And you're all over this, Charlie. So on the AI data center piece, you're right. It's an opportunity. One thing that we just have to do is bring down the permitting timeline for new power plants and new natural gas pipelines to make sure that we're not only ready, we're ready to be the leadership position of the country. And that's achievable.
But the other piece of this, as you really put your finger on this, is a lot of people have focused on training the AI algorithms. Of course, we've put hundreds of billions, really trillions of dollars into that enterprise.
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