Florida Republican Gov.
Ron DeSantis sharply criticized Vivek Ramaswamys failed Ohio gubernatorial bid this week, declaring that he shot himself in the foot and never connected with the states voters.
According to Just The News, Ramaswamy lost Tuesdays race for Ohio governor to Democrat Amy Acton, a defeat that capped a rapid rise and fall for the biotech entrepreneur who first gained national attention in the 2024 GOP presidential primary. After that campaign, he was briefly tapped as co-chair of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), but he declined to formally join the administration and instead launched his ill-fated run for governor.
DeSantis, speaking on the Sage Steele Show, questioned both Ramaswamys political instincts and the judgment of those who backed him. How badly did they beat Vivek like a drum? Now some of that was Vivek, quite frankly. I don't know why they would have pushed him to be the candidate there, he said.
The Florida governor argued that Ramaswamys profile and policy posture were fundamentally mismatched with the Buckeye States working-class electorate. Ohio is a working-class state, very blue-collar. You know, Vivek, he's like a tech guy, did this Alzheimer's drug, and he wants to bring in people, foreign worker on visas, DeSantis added. That is not the type of person that is gonna sell ... you've gotta meet the voters where they are on some of this stuff.
Ramaswamys campaign was dogged by controversies that undercut his appeal to blue-collar conservatives already skeptical of globalist-leaning Republicans. He drew heavy criticism for social media posts suggesting American workers could not compete with foreign immigrants because of an allegedly superior immigrant mindset, and he also took flak for an ad featuring Acton's estranged mother, whom the family said abandoned the state with her husband, who was accused of raping Acton when she was a child, a move many saw as politically reckless and morally tone-deaf.
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