'Flee to Ohio': Billboard battle pits Ramaswamy vs Mamdani

A BILLBOARD HAS emerged at Times Square in New York, asking New Yorkers to "flee" the politics of "radical socialist" Zohran Mamdani and "move to Ohio"—the state from which Indian-origin Republican Vivek Ramaswamy is running for the post of governor.

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The digital billboard is reportedly sponsored by "VPAC or Vivek Super PAC - Victors, not Victims", a political group backing Ramaswamy's candidacy in the Buckeye State.

The splash on the tourist location costs $50,000, according to a NYT Post, and it positions 39-year-old Ramaswamy as an ideological counterpoint to Mamdani, 33, who won last month's Democratic primary for New York City mayor.