As he prepares his campaign to be Ohio’s next governor, any attempt Vivek Ramaswamy makes to run on his links to President Donald Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency will face stiff competition from his biggest gubernatorial rival. 

Ohio’s Republican attorney general, Dave Yost, who announced his campaign for governor last month, has touted DOGE-like priorities during past political campaigns. And during an interview with NBC News released Sunday, the attorney general reiterated that he was “DOGE before DOGE was cool.”