Ohio gubernatorial contender Vivek Ramaswamy warned that the far-left movement that gave rise to socialist New York mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani is a threat to the entire country.
“It’s a fork in the road for the future of the country,” Ramaswamy said on “Fox & Friends” Monday morning.
“And it’s not just about one candidate in New York who represents the socialism wing. You look at the rise of [Omar] Fateh in Minneapolis,” he continued.
“You see trends coming up across the country. There’s a deep fissure in the Democratic Party.”
The one-time presidential candidate urged Republicans to seize the moment and save America.
“My advice to Republicans across the country is this is our chance to actually offer the vision to make the case for why free enterprise, why capitalism, is the best system known to the history of man,” the 39-year-old biotech entrepreneur said.
If Mamdani wins the election to become mayor of the Big Apple, Ramaswamy predicted it will be a stark “wake up” call for New Yorkers.
“I do think a lot of people in New York are going to, unfortunately, wake up to the effects of socialism,” he told the morning news program. “The well-intentioned so-called solutions to a housing crisis are actually going to make that very affordable crisis worse for the people they were supposedly trying to help.
“I don’t want to see that play out over the next 10 years. I think Republicans have an important role to play.”
