Ramaswamy implores GOP to offer ‘alternative vision’ to Mamdani’s anti-capitalist agenda

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy believes Republicans need to focus on offering an “alternative vision” to that being touted by New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.

Ramaswamy told “Fox & Friends” that the country faces a “fork in the road” in deciding between socialism and capitalism as Mamdani’s popularity took off in the Big Apple.

The former GOP presidential candidate spoke of “trends coming up across the country” and the “deep fissure” in the Democratic Party as they lean further left.

“My advice to Republicans across the country is this is our chance to actually offer an alternative vision, to make the case for why free enterprise, why capitalism is the best system known to the history of man,” Ramaswamy said, “to left people up from poverty, to stand for common sense, oposing the defund police movements that have resulted in violent wave of crime across our cities.”

“This is a special opportunity for us as Republicans to really show not just what we’re against, but what do we stand for, and if we nail that, the contrast could not be more evident for the next decade in our country,” he said.

Ramaswamy went on to tell Fox News co-host Lawrence Jones, “We can’t watch the great cities from New York to California flounder if we’re going to be one nation still pursuing a leadership position, a shining city on a hill for the world.”

“I hope a lot of New Yorkers wake up for the sake of New York,” he added, noting how he spent a decade living there after being born in Ohio.

“I think a lot of people in New York are going to, unfortunately, wake up to the effects of socialism. The well-intentioned so-called solutions to the housing crisis are actually going to make that very affordable crisis worse for the people they were supposedly trying to help,” he said.

“I don’t want to see that play out over the next 10 years. Republicans have an important role to play. I mean this for the Republican Party, Democrats have their own loss in the wilderness to figure out,” Ramaswamy explained.  But for the Republican Party, the question is, are we offering an alternative vision that we stand for?”