Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH), candidate for U.S. Senate, said on Thursday to FOX News host John Roberts that he wants to be "the face of this campaign" and doesn't want to obscure that by having incumbent President Joe Biden campaign for him. "Do you want President Biden to come out and campaign for you in Ohio?" Roberts asked. "Hey, we'll see," Ryan responded. "We'll see. But the reality of it is, I'm the face of this campaign and there's so much political noise out there. I'm a unique candidate." "You said we'll see if I invite him out or not or would like him to come out. What would make your determination?" Roberts asked. "I don't know," the candidate answered. "You know, it's a busy campaign. Not sure. Like we'll see what happens. But the reality is, I'm going to talk about the issues that are important to Ohio." <blockquote>JOHN ROBERTS, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Let's bring in Ohio Democratic Congressman Tim Ryan, who's running for a Senate seat in the midterms. Congressman, thanks for being with us today. Appreciate you coming on. You are you are locked in a very close race with J.D. Vance, who just advanced out of the Republican primary. It's good for somebody who's running for a Senate seat to get all the political clout they can have. And I just wanted to ask you the question directly. Do you want President Biden to come out and campaign for you in Ohio? REP. TIM RYAN (D-OH): Hey, we'll see. We'll see. But the reality of it is, I'm the face of this campaign and there's so much political noise out there. I'm a unique candidate. I'm a unique kind of Democrat. I've taken on the Democratic Party. I've run against Nancy Pelosi. I've gotten fights with Bernie Sanders. And I've agreed with Trump on, you know, renegotiating NAFTA and being tough on China and General Mattis and Space Force. So I'm pretty unique candidate and I really want to be the face of this campaign. I don't I don't want it obscured by the normal, you know, Washington, D.C., food fight, left, right, kind of red, blue stuff. It's about healing. It's about being Americans first. And so I'll be the face of this campaign. ROBERTS: You said we'll see if I invite him out or not or would like him to come out. What would make your determination? RYAN: I don't know. You know, it's a busy campaign. Not sure. Like we'll see what happens. But the reality is, I'm going to talk about the issues that are important to Ohio. It's not about the president. It's not about the Congress. It's not about the Republican-Democrat thing. It's about what's best for Ohio. And how do we start seeing ourselves as Americans again instead of Democrats and Republicans, stop all the stupid fights and start focusing on how we rebuild American middle class and how we promote ourselves as Americans and rebuild the American economy. And I want to be the mouthpiece of that. I want people to know my record, and I'm not really worried about anybody else. ROBERTS: And polls show that in the state of Ohio and just about every state in the nation, one of the top if not the top issue is inflation. President Biden is well underwater on that. In a recent Fox News poll, 67% of people disapproved of his handling of inflation. And here's what a Washington Post editorial said about the president today. Quote, Biden's magical thinking on inflation continues. While the White House looks for culprits to blame for inflation, it has struggled to articulate any sort of plan to show voters he's on top of the problem. Mr. Biden needs to do more than blame someone else for high prices. Do you agree? Does the president need to do more than blame other people for inflation? RYAN: I do. I do think that some corporate responsibility here, corporations are making a lot of money. And I think we need to make sure that the consumers aren't getting gouged. But I've been calling on the administration and anybody else who will listen to bring an immediate tax cut to the Congress for us to pass the earned income tax cut, the child tax cut that we had in last year, advance this so it's going right to consumers and then a general tax cut for workers and maybe small businesses to put money in their pockets. No one did anything wrong. Pandemic, economic collapse, war with an oil producing country that invaded an agriculture powerhouse in Europe with the Ukraine, China messing with us at every turn. The American consumers didn't do anything wrong. Pass a tax cut, put money in people's pockets now and let's ride this thing out together. People are struggling. They have been for 30 or 40 years. It's time for the Democrats to call for a tax cut for working people. </blockquote>