Ramaswamy offers GOP advice after getting 'a---- handed to us' on Election Day

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) -- Ohio gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy offered advice to his fellow Republicans after Democrats had sweeping victories in elections nationwide on Tuesday.

Ramaswamy, who has been endorsed by the Ohio Republican Party, said his party needs to focus on affordability after Democrats won gubernatorial races in Virginia and New Jersey and elected self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani as mayor of New York City. Watch related coverage in the player above.

"We got our a---- handed to us in New Jersey, Virginia, and New York City," Ramaswamy said in a social media video, saying Republicans need to focus on two things.

"Make the American dream affordable," Ramaswamy said. "Bring down costs. Electric costs, grocery costs, health care costs and housing costs, and lay out how we're going to do it."

Ramaswamy also told Republicans to "cut out the identity politics."

"That's the woke left's game, not ours," he said. "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."

Amy Acton, who is running as a Democrat to be Ohio's next governor, responded to Ramaswamy's video in a post on X.

"It appears that Vivek has realized that his agenda favoring billionaires, special interests, and lobbyists that makes life more expensive for Ohioans might not be the blueprint he thought it was," she wrote.