Remarks: JD Vance Delivers a Fraud Task Force Update in Cincinnati - October 21, 2026

We're proud to be joined by what President Trump calls the Untouchables up here today. Everybody looks good, they do a good job, but most importantly, they hate fraud. And to the local field agents here at the FBI office here in southwestern Ohio, I just want to say thank you for all your hard work; we could not do this without you.

Obviously, our great agents all across the country have been enlisted in this war against fraud, but the folks here in particular, I'm glad to be with you here in person and to be able to say thank you face to face. So, to the press, we've got a very big announcement on fraud; it's something I'm very proud of. I know we've been working on it for quite a long time.

And the big announcement here, unfortunately, Brooke Rollins, our Secretary of Agriculture, who has been a real fighter against fraud in the SNAP program, her flight was a little delayed. She should have rode with me. Brooke, I told you that. But she can't be here today, but we do have somebody from Department of Agriculture who's going to speak to this a little bit more in detail, that we have way too much fraud in the SNAP program.

Now, what is the SNAP program? Let's step back for a little bit and realize that this is a program -- I think one of the most important social service programs that we have in the United States of America, a program that ensures that all of our fellow citizens, particularly children, are able to have a full belly at the end of every single night.

That regardless of whether they can pay for a meal, we don't let American children and American families go hungry. That is one of the most important and sacred things that our tax dollars go to, making sure that our fellow citizens don't go hungry at night. That is an amazing accomplishment, by the way, of American citizenship, of American leadership.

And obviously, a lot of countries have followed our lead in ensuring that they have a basic social safety net that ensures things like people who can't afford a doctor are able to get a doctor. And in this case, children don't go hungry at night because they can afford a meal at the end of the day. Unfortunately, like with so many of these other amazing programs, we find that there are people out there who decide to commit fraud against these programs.

Who quite literally in this case will steal from the mouths of hungry children in order to enrich themselves. And that cannot go on and, thanks to President Trump's leadership, we are fighting and winning the war against fraud in the SNAP program. Now, there's one guy in particular -- do we have a TV up here?

I know we're going to show the video. Oh, here to my right. So, in one --

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This guy is a real winner.

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OK. So, that amazing young man, amazing citizen, goes by the name of -- and I want to make sure that I get this right, he goes by the name of Shawty Dread. Now, to the press the best part about Shawty Dread is that my amazing staff worried that I would be unable to pronounce Shawty Dread, included a handy dandy phonetic spelling of Shawty Dread, but no, guys, I got it. The simple fact is, this is a man that we have connected to $4.4 million in fraud against the SNAP program, a guy who is quite literally taking food from the mouths of children so that he can enrich himself.

And I'll let Todd Blanche talk a little bit about this. But we have prosecuted this guy and prosecuted so many other fraudsters, and we're going to keep on doing it. Because one of the most important lessons that we can send is that you shouldn't be able to, and you can't get rich off of fraud. SNAP exists to help hungry children eat.

It does not exist to provide private jets to a guy like Shawty Dread. And the fact that so many people feel like they can get rich off of our social safety net, rather than ensuring the money goes to where it should go, is evidence that for too long in this country, we looked the other way. Well, we're done with that; we are done looking the other way when it comes to fraud.

Now I'm going to go for a campaign rally in a second with Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy but let me just give a particular shout out to Jon Husted, because he has been one of the leaders who has helped us fight for mandatory minimums against fraudsters. One of the problems with our efforts to fight fraud, as much as we've been doing great work, as much as I'm proud of the amazing team behind me, is that when we catch a fraudster, they are very often, by the judicial system, given a slap on the wrist and let out back into our country.

That has got to stop. So, Jon Husted and a number of other Congressional Republicans have worked with us to try to increase the mandatory minimums when we catch fraudsters. If you commit fraud against SNAP, you should go to jail and you should go to jail for a very long time. We are fighting and working hard to make sure that happens.

I'll let the Attorney General speak more to that issue in more detail about our efforts to fight fraud. So, with that, I'll thank you all again, turn it over to Todd. Todd?

Thank you. Thank you very much, Mr. Vice President. And the vice president's right that President Trump started this effort; about a year ago we started talking about it and asked the vice president to lead this effort. And what you have seen almost every week for the past six, seven months, is the vice president standing in front of these cameras talking about, one way or another, that we are executing on President Trump's agenda to get rid of every single dollar of fraud that takes place in this country.

I want to also thank the Department of Agriculture and Secretary Rollins for really kicking up the effort when it comes to combating SNAP fraud. What we did, starting on September 1st of this year, so less than two months ago, seven weeks ago, is we started a surge to focus -- to focus a lot of our efforts using the inspector general from the Department of Agriculture, who's here on the stage with us today, and members of the HSI, DHS federal agents, to focus on SNAP fraud.

In that time, we have uncovered $42 million in fraud associated with the SNAP program. This fraud comes in all different ways; it comes from these criminals actually stealing the money off the cards, off the cards that are used to purchase food by our most needed in the country. It comes from just outright theft and taking money from the people that are supposed to be receiving these efforts.

To put this number in perspective, 220,000 -- 220,000 Americans could have eaten for the entire month of October if it were not for this $42 million in fraud. So, this is not some small little effort by just like the man that you just saw on that screen; this is a concerted effort to literally take food out of the mouths of children and it's going to stop.

So, we have US attorneys on the stage behind me; we have the inspector general from the Department of Agriculture behind me, and they are leading the effort to stop this. We've indicted men and women in 13 different districts just in the past seven weeks and that effort will continue for as long as it takes.

There's one story that struck out at me that I want to talk about. There was a woman who was a victim of SNAP fraud. She didn't know it, but criminals had actually used a program to actually take all the money out of her card, all the all the money designed for her to buy food for her children. She had children between the ages of three and 12. She goes shopping for her kids, has a shopping cart full of food, goes up to the counter with her kids next to her, with her, hands her SNAP card with the benefits on it to the cashier who runs it and says, there's no money, you can't buy this food.

She's not only humiliated in front of her children, but she doesn't have a way to put food on the table that night because of these fraudsters. She ultimately told investigators that she had to take a loan to have enough money to feed her children. So, that's the work that we're combating. I couldn't agree with the vice president more that there is more we need to do, working with our great Senators who are focused on these issues, to increase mandatory minimums for these fraudsters and increase the penalties so that if you do get caught, and you will get caught, you go to prison for a long time.

And hopefully, as the sentences get stronger, it'll actually deter these criminals from engaging in this conduct. So, thank you all for being here today. I want to thank again the vice president for his leadership and leading the effort to help us really rid fraud from this country. And I'd like to invite Assistant Attorney General Colin McDonald to say a few words as well.

Thank you. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

Well, good morning and thank you, Mr. Attorney General and Mr. Vice President. There is no more noble or more compassionate taxpayer funded program than those provided by USDA. Food for hungry children, relief for moms and dads struggling to put dinner on the table tonight. If ever a fraudster had limits, if ever a fraudster might say those dollars do too much good, they protect too many vulnerable kids and parents, these dollars are too noble for me to take, it would be SNAP.

But there is no program too noble for a fraudster. They will take whatever they can, no matter the financial cost and no matter the human toll. You've heard the top line figures from today's first ever nationwide SNAP benefits enforcement surge. The individual cases show in even greater detail the scope of deception, greed and exploitation we are confronting in these cases, and I will give three short examples.

First, right here in the Southern District of Ohio, under the leadership of US Attorney Dom Gerace, an indictment has been returned against defendants Jorag Yaseen and Rami Kanaan. Based on the allegations, these defendants used their food stores to generate thousands of fake food purchases, ultimately resulting in a loss of approximately $29.7 million to the United States.

Yaseen and Kanaan are charged with multiple felonies and were arrested just a few hours ago this morning in Chicago. Second, prosecutors in the District of Massachusetts have filed a criminal complaint against Rodolfo Armando Fernandez Guzman. As alleged, Guzman was a two-time felon and a Dominican national.

He is suspected to be unlawfully in the United States. Based on the allegations, Guzman stole the identity of a United States citizen to fraudulently obtain $22,000 in SNAP benefits, $98,000 in Medicaid benefits and $45,000 in Section 8 housing benefits. This is one of the many cases charged this year involving suspected illegal aliens stealing the identities of Americans to then steal from America.

The third case I will highlight: in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, multiple defendants have been indicted on a range of charges including SNAP fraud, Social Security fraud, kidnaping, transportation of individuals for illicit sexual activity and other crimes. Based on these allegations, the scheme involved grooming and then luring intellectually disabled women to live with them for the purpose of controlling their Social Security and SNAP benefits.

The defendants in this case were arrested last Wednesday, and they will be answering these serious allegations in federal court. These cases and allegations reveal the scope of deception, greed and human exploitation permeating SNAP fraud schemes. These are not paperwork crimes. The tools of justice must be and are fully activated to protect the innocent, provide for our most vulnerable, punish the wrongdoer and restore the public's confidence that those who engage in fraud will truly, indeed be brought to justice.

And the public servants assembled by President Trump, Vice President Vance and Attorney General Blanche are resolved to achieve all of those goals. The American people deserve nothing less. I want to thank USDA OIG John Walk, HSI Acting Executive Director John Condon, the agents and the prosecutors, some in this room right now, for their hard work to pull off this first ever nationwide SNAP surge.

This is the first, but it will not be the last. And I commend the agents and the prosecutors for their hard work and I'll now turn the podium over to Chairman Andrew Ferguson.

Great job. Thank you, Colin. Thank you, Mr. Vice President. I want to take a minute just to explain why the creation of the anti-fraud task force was so important and why the vice president's leadership has been one of the most important things that any vice president has ever done. Every morning when Ohioans wake up and they go to the factory, to the farm, to the field, to the school, to the hospital or to the office, they spend part of their day working to pay for food to go to their neighbors and friends in need.

It is part of an arrangement we have struck as a society among all of us that we are going to pay -- we're going to spend part of our day working to help our families, our friends and our neighbors when they are in need. And we have this deal on the basis of trust among each other that citizens held together in this great country are going to work together to take care of the hardest for us. And what has been happening in this country under the watch of Democrats in states all over the country, is that people like Shawty Dread come and pick the money right out of your pocket, the money that you earned on the job that you're then supposed to give to help kids and families eat in Ohio, takes it right out of your pocket and buys watches and cars and real estate.

The American people did not sign up to pay for Shawty Dread to get a fancy watch and a flight on a private plane. I didn't anyway, I don't think anyone else here did either. That is why this task force is so important. We are restoring social trust, we are saving these programs, and we are instilling justice to make sure that when Americans go to work and they pay their taxes, they can truly believe and know that the taxes are going to go to help the people that we all agreed we were going to help.

And it would not be happening without the men on the stage and without the vice president's leadership, because this isn't just a prosecutorial function. The men up here are making sure that people that do this go to jail and go to jail for a long time. But we can't just be about throwing them in jail; we have to prevent this from happening in the first place, which means you need someone like the vice president who sits atop the rest of the government, who can help DOJ prosecute these people, can promote legislation to increase the penalties, and can make sure that the administrative apparatus prevents the fraud from happening in the first place.

And an incredible range of talent has come to work on this task force, to work in these departments to stop the fraud from happening. The general counsel of the task force, who saddled up to work for Vice President Vance is from right here in Ohio. He helped articulate the legal frameworks for so many of the actions that the task force has taken today.

But that's the minutia. The big thing we're doing is making sure that when honest American citizens go to work, on the deal that we all struck, that part of what we're going to do on the job is help pay to help our families and friends in need. That it's actually going to happen and thugs like Shawty Dread are not going to walk between them and American citizens and take money out of the mouths of children and out of the pockets of hard-working workers here in America.

That is why this is so important. It is a shame that it took this long to fix it, but I am incredibly grateful that the vice president has been the one that is able to come in, sit atop the government and get this done. And with that, I'm going to turn it over to John Walk, the Inspector General of USDA, who is responsible for many of today's actions.

Thank you. Mr. Vice President, thank you for your leadership against fraud on the American taxpayer. USDA's Office of Inspector General has been a proud part of your whole-of-government fight to eliminate fraud. Our law enforcement agents have worked tirelessly across the country, from Seattle to Miami, Jackson, Mississippi, to Cleveland, Ohio, to disrupt fraud, restore integrity to federal programs, and arrest criminal fraudsters who steal from hard-working American taxpayers.

SNAP fraud despicably robs from low-income Americans that rely on the program for food assistance and diverts taxpayer funds to line the pockets of fraudsters and bankroll other criminal activities. Drugs, guns, transnational organized crime, we've known that some of this money has gone to terrorist organizations.

No more, Mr. Vice President. USDA OIG is committed to supporting your leadership to disrupt fraud schemes and send criminals straight to prison. I'm grateful for our special agents whose work, as part of the nationwide surge, brought significant law enforcement actions against fraudsters in dozens of cases around the country.

I also want to make sure I say thank you to the department through the FNA, who has worked on administrative actions to stop trafficking of SNAP benefits and have turned off authorized stations for stores that are able to collect fraudulently, as well as to destroy more than 2,000 elicit point of sale devices.

I'd like to just make sure I highlight what Attorney General Todd Blanche highlighted when he spoke about this mother who was a victim of SNAP fraud. Unfortunately, that's all too common. I've seen too many of those victims' stories come across my desk. I'm thinking about the case we investigated just a few months ago.

Two illegal aliens -- they stole from 3,000 SNAP victims. The case we just saw in Atlanta, this person stole some 350 identities and used that false information to gain SNAP benefits for himself. So, we really want to think about the victims and I'm so glad that you and President Trump are spearheading this fight for the victims.

And this surge is only the start; we will continue to unite behind our partners and behind your whole-of-government fight to eliminate fraud and hold fraudsters to account. Thank you, Mr. Vice President.

Great job to the team. Let me just close with two other comments before I turn it over to the reporters. So, first of all, I want to echo what Todd Blanche said. You know, I worked as a cashier at a grocery store for a couple of years, this was my very first job, Dhillon Foods, probably 20 miles from where we're standing today.

And I also had a lot of members of my family benefit from these food benefit programs provided by federal tax dollars. The simple reality is that it is actually a very tough thing to go through a line with kids, kids being kids, they often misbehave at grocery stores, as a lot of us with young kids know.

To present that card, to expect to be able to take that food home to your family, to be able to cook it and provide a meal for your kids. And to be told, because of the work of a fraudster, because of the theft of a fraudster, that you are being rejected. And there are thousands and hundreds of thousands of families all across our country, all across the state of Ohio, who have had that experience because their benefits went to go and pay for private jets for people like Shawty Dread.

It is despicable and I'm proud of this team for making it stop. And that's the final point I want to make. This work has a lot of unsung heroes, and I'm obviously proud of Todd and Colin at the Department of Justice, of Andrew Ferguson, my incredible partner. I would say partner in crime but it's actually the opposite, partner in fighting crime.

And all of these incredible guys at the Department of Agriculture and all the departments we've worked with. But there are dozens and dozens of economists, of 22-year-old staffers, of people who are working 90 to 100 hours a week for very little pay to fight fraud and to deliver for the American people. I just want all of them to know that these are their victories, too.

They are, most importantly, the American people's victories. But we've got to keep at it because the American people depend on us to fight fraud and that's exactly what we're going to keep doing. With that, I will happily take a few questions. So, the bright lights, I can't really see anybody who's raising their hands, so just shout a question at me. Yes.

Daniel Bush with the BBC. Thank you. You mentioned after this you're going to a campaign event. Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign put out a controversial ad featuring his opponent's mother. Republicans, some, are backing away from that. Do you think that that ad was appropriate?

Well, I'll be honest with you, whether the ad was appropriate or not is not really my concern. What is my concern is who is going to govern the next generation of American government? Who is going to win the Senate race in the state of Ohio? Who's going to win the governor's race in the state of Ohio? And I've got to be honest that, when I see Republicans, people in my party, reacting so strongly, especially elected officials -- look, have the opinion you want to have on that ad. If you think it was too tough, say it was too tough.

If you think it wasn't tough enough, say that. But I have to admit that I'm a little bit disgusted when I see Republicans across the country who are whining more about that advertisement than they are about what the Congressional Democrats and other Democrats want to do to the United States of America. So, I would say to Ohio Republicans, do you actually think that Amy Acton is unfit to serve as governor of the state of Ohio?

I do. Do you actually think that Sherrod Brown should not be given a 50th year in public service to ship American jobs overseas and to bring men into women's sports? Because I do. I actually think, and I would hope that my fellow Republicans think, that the reason that Jon Husted should be a United States Senator is because he's the right man for the job.

And because Vivek should be the governor of Ohio, we should actually fight for these candidates. So, my message to Republicans is, remember some of the ads that have been run against me? I've run in, I guess, two races now in my entire life. People have called Vivek Ramaswamy a murderer in some of the advertisements ran against him.

People have called -- you know, used the president of the United States -- how many times have we seen advertisements using his family members, estranged family members to go after the president of the United States? Politics is a tough business and my message to my fellow elected Republicans is, if you actually believe in the things you say you believe in, stop whining about an advertisement and go win the race in 13 days.

Next question.

Thank you, Mr. Vice President. And separately, quickly, special Envoy Steve Witkoff called Russian President Vladimir Putin a humanitarian for agreeing to release Stephen Hubbard. Do you agree with that?

I agree with Steve Witkoff saying something nice to a person who just released an American hostage. Whether you agree with the underlying sentiment or not, Steve Witkoff is a diplomat; his job is to go over there and get a job done. I care much less about what Steve said than about the fact that he is bringing an American hostage home to his family.

We should all be celebrating that, not be complaining about what Steve Witkoff said in order to get it done. Next.

Mr. vice President, you mentioned that your family had benefited from the programs that we're talking about here today. And so, I'm just wondering, when you hear about these stories of other families affected, and how has your personal experience shaped your response on this task force?

Well, I think it's driven home how much the war against fraud is not just about protecting taxpayer dollars as much as that is obviously very important to every person on this stage. It's also about protecting important benefits. And, you know, Andrew Ferguson says this as well as I've ever heard anybody say it, that there is this social compact in the United States of America.

When you pay your taxes, you're paying your hard-earned dollars, dollars that are not going to your kids or to your family or to your mortgage payment, it's going to the government. But it's going to the government for a particular purpose, to ensure that the people you share a community with, that they have enough food in their bellies, that the kids that your children go to school with, that they don't come to school in the morning hungry because they weren't able to afford a meal.

That's an amazing thing, and that amazing thing is built on a bedrock of social trust. We want to preserve that; we want to fight for it. We want to make sure that when people pay their taxes, they're not angry because they know that it's going to go to fraudsters. That, you know, nobody loves paying their taxes, but they accept it because they know that it's going for a good and a useful purpose.

That's not going to happen unless we take fraud more seriously. And it's why the president's effort to do just that is so important. Next.

Mr. Vice President, this is Matthew Cupelli with the Cincinnati Enquirer. I'm just hoping you could clarify specifically what Shawty Dread was charged with and accused of doing. Also, I believe that you mentioned twice that the funds were used to purchase a private jet. Could you clarify whether that happened?

Well, obviously these are criminal allegations, but we feel very strongly about them. The specific thing that Shawty Dread is accused of doing is he would actually call and steal. I understand he called almost 9,000 times and would take benefits that were spread across 350 accounts, collect them to himself, and then enrich himself in the process.

That's what he's accused of doing. And I don't know that he bought the private jet; he certainly bought the -- you know, I don't know if he bought the jet itself. I believe that what he's accused of is using the money to go and buy a seat on a private jet for himself. Regardless, it's ridiculous, it's preposterous, and that money should be going to hungry children, not to a guy like Shawty Dread.

Now, here's the crazy thing about this -- I mean, when I read this case file the first time, and I saw that he had called these call centers to help the administration of the SNAP program. He had called them almost 9,000 times. I've got to be honest; there's a part of me that thinks there's some entrepreneurialism there.

It's deployed to a very disgusting purpose, but this is not a person who's just sitting around doing nothing. That person's efforts and whatever entrepreneurial spirit that he has, that should be geared towards doing something real and building something of value, not stealing food from the mouths of our fellow citizens.

And I think that's one of the most important things our fraud task force is doing is it's sending a message to people, don't use your skills and your abilities -- don't use them to go and defraud your fellow citizens. Use those skills and abilities to do something legitimate and build something of real value.

Otherwise, you're going to go to prison and that's exactly what I suspect is going to happen with Shawty Dread. Next question.

Mr. Vice President, you said that you don't endorse foreign candidates, but you have backed Orban and expressed support for the right in Germany. I'm wondering, going back to your comments in an interview this weekend, do you have concerns about Prime Minister Netanyahu's leadership?

Well, look, I've endorsed one foreign candidate for election in my entire life. First of all, it didn't go particularly well, as much as I'm very much an admirer of Prime Minister Orban. But fundamentally, that was in April, I think, of 2026. We're in the middle of an American election cycle where I'm very focused on getting candidates elected in the United States of America.

As I said in that interview, I'm not attacking Bibi Netanyahu, I'm not endorsing Bibi Netanyahu. I think the president's endorsement is ultimately what matters, and the president is going to make the decision about how he doles out that endorsement, according to his preferences. But I'm going to be focused on the midterm elections here in the United States of America.

I'm not endorsing any more foreign candidates now or in the future. Next question.

Mr. Vice President, Tanya O'Rourke from WCPO here in Cincinnati. Welcome home.

Hey, Tanya, good to see you.

Good to see you, too. Knowing the type of fraud that's taken place within the SNAP program you guys have identified, is there a look at SNAP itself as a program to see why this was able to be a thing, why these people were able to defraud this program?

Yeah. Well, one of the challenges, Tanya, is, because of the way that SNAP is administered, it can sometimes -- and we're doing a lot of work to try to change this -- it can sometimes be very hard to identify the fraud until after it's already happened. I mean, part of what helped us identify Shawty Dread is the guys posting Instagram videos, and we're able to connect the money that he's making with the money that he's then using to go and buy seats on private jets and all these other things.

One of the things we have tried to do, and I'll give great credit to the state of Ohio for being a leader on this. A few other states should deserve credit as well. But if we go, for example, to the state of California, where we wire, meaning the federal government wires billions of dollars directly to the state of California, they don't even know who's on their SNAP rolls.

They don't know whether those people are legal residents of the United States of America. Sometimes they don't even know if they're real people at all. So, there's no verification in certain states and that's because this program is fundamentally a state administered program. And so, what we've tried to do is, to your point, try to get a little inventive and try to get ahead of the curve at anticipating and seeing the fraud before it goes out the door.

But it would be a lot easier with state cooperation. Again, we have that in the state of Ohio; we don't have it in other states, and that has been a barrier to fighting fraud in some of these programs. Sometimes the states just don't want to cooperate. I'll take one more question, then we'll have to hit the road.

Thanks, Mr. Vice President. My name is Naomi Lim; I'm with the Washington Examiner. Two quick ones. We're in your home state. What do you think you bring as a surrogate to help a Husted, to help a Ramaswamy, just because this is your home state? And then secondly, what would you say to criticism that you are cracking down on fraud but there have been other members or former members of the administration that have been sort of criticized for pay to play, you know, like the likes of Kimberly Guilfoyle, the likes of Alina Habba?

How do you sort of reconcile those two sort of split screens?

Well, what I'd say is that we want to fight fraud wherever we see it. What we're not going to do is go and attack somebody based on an anonymously sourced story. And some of those cases, you have to let the facts play out and see what the facts actually are. Look, if I see anybody trying to do pay for play within our government, within our administration, I can tell you I'm not going to have to call the president and encourage him to do something; he's going to call me and demand an answer to why we aren't doing more.

But you've got to let the facts drive these things. There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government than Donald J. Trump. I think he's been a great advocate, obviously, for our anti-fraud efforts. He's been the person who's driven most of our anti-fraud efforts.

Fundamentally, the president is not going to stand for this, but we're not going to try people in the court of public opinion, we're going to let real facts develop. And that's one thing I'd say to the American people. I see a lot of stories about our administration, and sometimes my initial reaction to them is, I really don't like that.

And then when you read the details, you realize that a lot of what's being accused is one anonymously sourced; or two, it's just completely fraudulent, there's no real evidentiary basis for it at all. Which is why, again, we don't try people in the court of public opinion; we actually try people according to the real facts that are out there.

But I can tell you, this attorney general and the entire administration, we reject pay for play, we reject anybody getting enriched off of their connections to the government. And if we see it happening, whether it's our partisan friends or our partisan enemies, we are going to do something about it. And then the second question about, you know, what do I bring as a surrogate?

I mean, look, this is my home state. Obviously, I have a lot of friends here, a lot of people who I love and who love me. But I do think I understand this state probably instinctively better than I understand most states because of my connection to it. And I just do not think the state of Ohio wants to give Sherrod Brown a 50th year, when he didn't do anything with his first 49 years in public service.

I don't think that they want to give the governorship over to a person who lies about every single one of her positions, who pretends that she's a reasonable moderate when her entire life in public service, she's been a far-left Democrat. So, I think I can make that argument in a pretty compelling way. Obviously, I'm going to go try and do exactly that in about a half an hour.

But my message to the people of Ohio is very simple -- this is a good state. Common sense people, whether they're Democrats or Republicans or Independents, the far left has run and taken over the Democratic Party. Don't give these people power; they're going to cause more of the very problems that we've been fighting against.

That's going to be my message, and I think, ultimately, it's going to carry the day in the state of Ohio. But of course, the voters will have to make that determination. Good to see you guys. Thank you all for being here. We'll talk soon. Thanks, guys.