Political positions Foreign policy China ĭuring his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy stated that America needed a “total decoupling” from China. Trump, his position was "this seems like just another part of the establishment’s anaphylactic response". Trump "a national disaster." Regarding the 2023 jury verdict against Trump for sexual abuse in E. When interviewed, he called Trump's indictment in The People of the State of New York v. While some candidates have been openly critical of Donald Trump throughout his ongoing legal battles, Ramaswamy has defended Trump unabashedly as part of a campaign strategy. In his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy pitched himself as a conservative and argued "what the conservative movement needs to do is more than just criticize the poison that fills the void but fill the vacuum with a vision of American national identity that runs so deep that it dilutes these other religions, from wokism to Islamism." Criticism of lawsuits against Donald Trump According to a profile in Politico, he was inspired by Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, and wants to run "with an entrepreneurial spirit, unorthodox ideas, and few expectations" in the hopes of building "a major following that will carry him to the presidency. His campaign has also been compared to Andrew Yang's 2020 presidential campaign by media outlets such as Fox News. And to me, those are these basic rules of the road that set this nation into motion from meritocracy to free speech, to self-governance over aristocracy." Ī profile in The New York Times described Ramaswamy as an anti-woke candidate, and The Hill characterizes him as a conservative. This is a transpartisan & transnational struggle." In his campaign announcement, Ramaswamy stated "I'm all for putting America First, but in order to put America first, we have to first rediscover what America is. It is the Great Reset vs the Great Uprising. Ideology Īccording to Ramaswamy, "The most fundamental divide of our time is not black vs white, gay vs straight, or even Democrat vs Republican. A campaign spokesperson said the edits were revisions of "factual distortions" and blamed a Ron DeSantis-aligned super PAC for amplifying the story. Ramaswamy's campaign confirmed that it had paid an editor, but denied it was trying to " scrub" his Wikipedia page. Paul and Daisy Soros are respectively the elder brother and sister-in-law of businessman and social activist George Soros, who has been the subject of numerous right-wing conspiracy theories. The paid editor removed references to his involvement with the Ohio COVID-19 Response Team and his Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans postgraduate fellowship (other editors later restored the removed content, citing the report). In May 2023, Forbes reported Ramaswamy had paid an editor to alter his Wikipedia page to appear more favorable to political conservatives before announcing his campaign. He formally declared his candidacy later that month in an interview on Tucker Carlson Tonight. Since then, he had been named as a potential presidential candidate, and by early February, it was reported that he had begun assembling a campaign team. Ramaswamy had previously considered a candidacy in the 2022 United States Senate election in Ohio, but ultimately decided not to run.
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