Ohio GOP Primary: Ramaswamy vs Putsch

0:00It's April 26. From your city to your ears, this is Durham News Today, powered by AI. Ohio's Republican primary for governor hits on May 5, and Vivek Ramaswami looks unbeatable. The biotech billionaire and Trump ally raised a record $50 million, mostly his own cash, flooding ads against Democrat Amy Acton for the fall. He's skipping primary fights, packing rallies, and hitting all 88 counties like it's already the general election. Meanwhile, underdog Casey Puch, the self-style car guy and YouTube provocateur raised just $123,000. His sparse events troll Ramaswami on hot-button gripes like skyrocketing living costs, Epstein files mishandling power-hungry data centers, and Iran. Tensions. Still, Puch pulls some working-class conservatives tired of national GOP ways. Voters split hard. Some like Tyler Morris, a 32-year-old ambulance worker, dig Puch as a regular Ohioan speaking

1:03for the everyday grind, ditching. Trump endorsed Pics. Others blasts Ramaswami's ideas, like merging state universities or hiking the voting age to 25, calling him Ivy League out of touch. A tax-turned ugly, with ethnic jabs at his Indian roots and Hindu faith, sparking Ramaswami's pushback on racism in op-eds and speeches. Ramaswami quit Instagram in X in January, saying social media distorts reality, while Puch mocked him for dodging heat. Party chair Alex Trian Tafalu shrugs off the on-my noise, praising Ramaswami's star power and values alignment despite not being Christian. Groups like the Center for Christian Virtue, back him too. Primary day looms with Ramaswami's crowds surging, but Puch believers hold out for miracles on guns and local cred, testing if base fury cracks the.