WASHINGTON — Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy walked back his past support for foreign worker visas on the latest episode of “Pod Force One,” out Wednesday, saying the controversy is “irrelevant compared to our own deeper failure in education that we need to address.”

“I’m not afraid to start a conversation,” Ramaswamy declared to The Post’s Miranda Devine while discussing the explosive MAGA infighting he prompted in December 2024 over his initial stance in support of the H-1B program, which lets highly skilled foreign workers enter the US so long as companies sponsor them.

Following Trump’s election, the then-Department of Government Efficiency co-chair claimed “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long,” preferring “the prom q

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