Joel Berry is a low IQ liar. Let's break down the numbers.
Vivek Ramaswamy plans to increase Ohio's population by 4-5 million residents over four years. That's at least ~83k new residents per month, for his entire four-year term, if elected.
Ohio has ~2.25 million females aged 15-44. To produce a million new babies per year, fertility rates would have to 8x, from 55.6 births per 1,000 to 495 births per 1,000.
At the current rate, which will not change significantly over four years, Ohio produces about 125,000 new babies each year. Even if that were to DOUBLE, that's 250,000 births per year, or roughly 1 million over four years.
Currently, ~126,000 Ohioans die each year. So if fertility rates were to double, you're back to adding about 1 million people over four years. Again, this is not happening, but let's say it did.
Domestic migration would have to make up the remaining 3-4 million new residents, which is still newcomers at a rate of 62,000-83,000 PER MONTH for four years.
At it's PEAK in 2022, Florida added about 300,000 new residents from domestic migration. Add international migration, and they hit ~600,000 in 2022.
Joel and Vivek, both of whom are lying about this, are asking you to believe that Ohio will absorb over three times Florida's highest annual domestic migration rate, for four years in a row.
This is what they want you to believe, that "having more children and by patriotic Americans moving to Ohio from other states" will produce 4-5 million new residents.
Growing Ohio's population like that is not happening through increased births and domestic migration.
It will happen only through international migration.
Joel Berry is lying and so is Vivek.
He said to increase the population by Ohioans having more children and by patriotic Americans moving to Ohio from other states.
He said nothing about chain migration. He's talking about measuring success the way Florida did, by building a state everyone wants to move to. Why are you lying? Oh, I think I know why...