Ohio republican guebenatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks during a campaign rally on February 25, 2025 at the Glass City Center in Toledo, Ohio (Scott W. Grau/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
In light of the GOP’s crushing defeats Tuesday night, Ramaswamy said that Republicans need to focus their messaging on affordability and avoid playing into "identity politics."
"Our side needs to focus on affordability. Make the American dream affordable, bring down costs: electric costs, grocery costs, healthcare costs and housing costs. And lay out how we’re going to do it," he said.
"Number two, cut out the identity politics, it doesn’t suit Republicans, it’s not for us, that’s the woke left’s game, not ours," Ramaswamy went on.
"We don’t care about the color of your skin or your religion. We care about the content of your character, that’s who we are," he said.
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Democratic Party candidate for Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones (left) and Republican candidate for Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (right) (Julia Rendleman/Getty; Parker Michels-Boyce/Getty Images)
Ramaswamy left Ohio for short stints in recent weeks to stump for now-defeated GOP gubernatorial candidates Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears in Virginia and Jack Ciattarelli in New Jersey.
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At the time, Ramaswamy said that GOP victories in both elections would "set the table for even bigger and more decisive victories, hopefully in places like Ohio next year."
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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