“There’s also a funny little secret I learned, Stuart. I’m new to this as an outsider, one of the things you see as an outsider is how corrupt this system is.
“You know something funny about this, I’ve attended CPAC before, I didn’t know it works this way. A consultant calls my campaign shortly after I declared and says ‘Hey, we can get you up to number two on there [the straw poll] if you a pay a few hundred thousand dollars.’
“I didn’t get to where I am by actually just getting exploited and I think the American people actually deserve to see the sausage getting made.” – GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, this afternoon on Fox News.
2024 GOP Presidential Candidate Shocks Fox Host By Claiming You Can Pay to Rig the CPAC Straw Poll https://t.co/og8mcmqs7p
— Mediaite (@Mediaite) March 6, 2023
Shocking to see how corrupt this process actually is. My #1 promise this year: I will expose the corruption and will not hold back pic.twitter.com/yOxLVw1OP1
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) March 6, 2023