Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy hinted he could enter the 2024 US Presidential Election race, vowing to restore the “national identity in America”. The 37-year-old also decried the “poison of wokeism, and climatism, and transgenderism, and COVIDism for that matter” among younger Americans.
He told Fox News: “Yes, I’ve accomplished things but so has everyone else who would be running in this race too. I think I am running on a vision that I believe I can articulate what it means to be an American in 2023.”
However, Ramaswamy also warned the Grand Old Party against going back to the 1980s.
Commenting on Republicans interest with ex-POTUS Ronald Reagan, the Ohioan added: “The thing that distinguished Reagan is he did what he needed to do in his era.
“He stood up to the orthodoxies of his party and led a national revival at a time when America was in the middle of its last national identity crisis in the late 1970s.
“I think we’re in a late 1970s moment now.
“I think 2024 could be a landslide election if we actually make it about those basic American ideals of merit, free speech, open debate.”
Ramaswamy co-founded Strive Asset in 2022 and wrote Woke Inc: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam the year before.
His priorities include “total decoupling” from Communist China, “restoring” free speech, “dismantling” affirmative action”.
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He described the “new climate religion” as a “cancer of the American soul”.
Ramaswamy would become the youngest Commander-in-Chief ever if elected POTUS.
He has also become the second first-generation Indian-American to seek the Oval Office in 2024, joining former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.
Ramaswamy has not been included in recent opinion polls so it remains hard to gauge how he could fare against Donald Trump and other Republican rivals.
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He also could not pip the two-time GOP nominee to the title of richest contender.
Forbes reported Ramaswamy net work in 2016 at a whopping $600million.
Whereas, Trump’s stood at more than $3billion as of 2022.
