Tag Archives: Vivek Ramaswamy

Bloomberg News reports: Donald Trump has ruled out Vivek Ramaswamy as his running mate and is instead eyeing the entrepreneur for a Cabinet job, according to people familiar with the matter, as the Republican presidential nominee sizes up a possible administration. Trump personally told Ramaswamy he won’t be his vice presidential pick, according to people briefed on the discussion, but …

The New York Times reports: Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota and the entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy tied for the top choice to be former President Donald J. Trump’s running mate in a straw poll on Saturday at a prominent gathering of conservative activists. Ms. Noem and Mr. Ramaswamy each garnered 15 percent of the vote in the straw poll. Former …

“If race and gender are your basis for selecting someone for a job, and the identity of your party is tied to that temple of identity politics, then they will risk looking hypocritical if they sideline her [Kamala Harris] after they sideline Biden. “And I do think Michelle Obama offers them a convenient path out of that problem, somebody who …

Mediaite reports: On Monday morning, former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy waded into the world of sports commentary by predicting that the upcoming Super Bowl between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers would be rigged for the former in order to set the table for Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s endorsement of President Joe Biden this fall. Ramaswamy posited …

The Messenger reports: A day after dropping out of the race for the Republican nomination, Vivek Ramaswamy shared the stage with Donald Trump to deliver a full-throated endorsement of the former president. At a rally with hundreds of supporters packed inside a country club in southern New Hampshire, Ramaswamy wasted no time pivoting to his new role. “We are in …

From the cultist “satire” site The Babylon Bee: Following former President Donald Trump’s landslide victory in the Iowa Primary and immediate concession by GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, Trump offered an olive branch by promising Vivek a cabinet position running the White House 7-Eleven convenience store. Vivek gratefully accepted the honorable position from the future president. “From the moment I entered …

The New York Times reports: Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38-year-old entrepreneur and political newcomer who briefly made a splash with brash policy proposals and an outsize sense of confidence, dropped out of the race for the Republican White House nomination after a disappointing fourth-place finish in the Iowa caucuses. He then immediately endorsed former President Donald J. Trump for the White …

Mediaite reports: Former President Donald Trump continued to attack political frenemy Vivek Ramaswamy in an ALL CAPS social media post on the morning of the Iowa Caucus. Ramaswamy is aggressively running in an outsider campaign with a curious strategy that praises Trump as the “greatest president in modern history” but brings baggage in the form of 91 indictments. Ramaswamy calls …

The New York Post reports: Some Donald Trump supporters said Sunday they would support his 2024 presidential rival Vivek Ramaswamy as his veep pick, but Trump’s top adviser all but nixed the notion. Trump aide Jason Miller told The Post that voters could “probably” rule out Ramaswamy as the ex-president’s running mate, given that Trump unleashed his biggest attack on …

CNN reports: Donald Trump lashed out at GOP rival Vivek Ramaswamy for the first time on Saturday, arguing on social media he is “not MAGA” as the former president and his campaign have grown increasingly frustrated with what they claim are Ramaswamy’s disingenuous campaign tactics, Trump campaign advisers told CNN. “Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, ‘the best …

The Hill reports: Climate protestors interrupted GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during his event in Iowa Friday night, screaming in his face and calling the biotech entrepreneur “a liar.” Ramaswamy, who has called climate change “a hoax” in the past, was targeted by climate activists during his West Des Moines, Iowa event. Some protestors held yellow signs that said “Vivek: …

The Daily Beast reports: “Take your remote, and turn this [bleep] off,” Ramaswamy says in a direct-to-camera ad set to air during the debate. “The mainstream media is trying to rig the Iowa GOP caucus in favor of the corporate candidates who they can control,” Ramaswamy says over an ominous soundtrack. The 38-year-old then proceeds to list off “the truth …

Axios reports: Vivek Ramaswamy won’t be on the Illinois GOP primary ballot, some of his campaign staffers have begun looking for work elsewhere, and he hasn’t qualified for Wednesday’s final televised debate before Iowa’s caucuses. Ramaswamy jumped to political prominence in recent months with an anti-establishment, Trump-friendly message — but now there are signs that his long-shot campaign could be …

“This has been explained 1 million times. Epps found out he was on the list and CALLED THE FBI HIMSELF. He was NOT ‘caught on camera’ telling people to go in. Both he and the guy he was whispering to said he was saying DON’T GO IN. Once Tucker and other nuts made Epps the star of their ‘The FBI …

Mediaite reports: On Saturday, three years to the day after a mob of Trump supporters stormed the Capitol because they had been convinced by Trump that the election was stolen, Ramaswamy posted to X: “Happy Entrapment Day.” In his 2022 book Nation of Victims, Ramaswamy tore into Trump for his attempts to overturn the 2020 election and the consequences of …

Politico reports: Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has told multiple people he would withdraw the U.S. from NATO as president, the furthest anyone vying for the Oval Office has gone on the idea of ending America’s role in the alliance. The remarks made to different groups experts and supporters, detailed to POLITICO by three people familiar with his comments, signal NATO’s …

Axios reports: Vivek Ramaswamy sold $33 million worth of shares in the biotech company he founded, as he fights to stay competitive in the GOP presidential primary race. Ramaswamy will use some of the proceeds to make a “significant investment” in his campaign, a spokesperson confirmed to Axios. Ramaswamy sold three million shares in Roivant Sciences at $11.05 per share …

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 …

The Messenger reports: Vivek Ramaswamy announced on Tuesday that he plans on skipping a CNN Republican primary debate and made a list of grievances he has with the network and some of their employees. Taking a page from former President Donald Trump’s playbook for skipping debates so far, Ramaswamy will hold a competing event to the debate. “Forget [CNN’s] fake …

“In any state where Donald Trump is forcibly removed from the ballot in this way, I’ll also remove myself. And I challenge Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis to do the same thing, or else they are also complicit. If every Republican removes themselves from the ballot in Maine, that automatically stops this election interference in our GOP primary. …