Former GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy hosted a town hall with concerned residents Thursday in a city at the center of the 2024 race: Springfield, Ohio.

Ramaswamy, who spent much of his presidential campaign running into any news cycle that remotely validated his campaign’s anti-illegal immigration rhetoric, was something of a latecomer to the unfolding story in Springfield, where he spoke of growing up and playing tennis at nearby Wittenberg University and getting subs at Mike And Rosy’s Deli.