Extremist Ex-Rep. Steve King Endorses Ramaswamy

Politico reports:

Steve King, the nine-term former Republican representative from Iowa with a history of incendiary, racist rhetoric, endorsed Vivek Ramaswamy for president in his home state on Tuesday.

“Vivek Ramaswamy is going to shock the world at the Iowa caucus because he is the only candidate in this race who’s had the courage to oppose the CO2 pipelines here in Iowa, to publicly oppose the climate change cult, to commit to pardon peaceful Jan 6 protestors on day 1, and to end birthright citizenship for kids of illegals in this country,” King said in a statement shared first with POLITICO.

“White nationalist, white supremacist, Western civilization — how did that language become offensive?” King asked in a 2019 New York Times interview that drew widespread condemnation.

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