Posted on 12/24/2023 12:58:00 PM PST by Libloather
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy was disappointed when other GOP candidates chose not to follow his decision to pull their names from the Colorado primary ballot in solidarity with former President Trump, but said the gesture is his way of "lead[ing] by example."
"It's an unconstitutional and flagrant violation of the way we conduct elections in this country. This is not the way we do things in the United States of America. We the people are the ones who select our leaders, not unelected cabals of Democrat judges and back office," Ramaswamy told Fox News' Maria Bartiromo of the Colorado Supreme Court's decision to remove Trump from the state's ballot.
The esteemed entrepreneur and Republican firebrand joined the show, along with his wife Dr. Apoorva Ramaswamy, to explain his decision to remove his own name from the ballot and to discuss the young vote.
"The reason I made the statement I did is very practical," he continued, reflecting on the Colorado ballot.
"If every Republican in the Colorado GOP primary also says, 'We're not participating,' then this blatant act of election interference has no impact, so I wanted to lead by example to say that, if they are going to forcibly remove Trump's name from that ballot, then I would voluntarily remove myself too, and called on Chris Christie and Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis to do the same thing. I have to say, I was disappointed to hear radio silence or worse from those other candidates who said they wanted to still collect their delegates."
Ramaswamy said he didn't see much value in collecting a "small" number of delegates while tolerating "blatant election interference," but said candidates pledging to pull their names from the ballot would help the Republican Party "solve this problem."
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He pushes a lot the right buttons.
I, honestly, don't know enough about him.
He has a lot of positive attributes, but are there any negatives?
Would he be a good VP pick?
I think that the "natural born citizen" chicken has flown the coop, with the selection of soetoro, but I expect the Rats would push it hard if he were to run for POTUS or VP.
Win or lose.. This man is doing the right thing. If DeSantis had come out defending Trump instead of considering Trump probably would not be the candidate at the end of the year, he would be in a different position. . He turned me and others to a no vote.
Politics is a dirty game.. Ya have to play better and wiser than the dirty players.
It seems this man, Ramaswamy, has a caring heart.
That graphic sums it up . Did you make that?
Guess whos scouting for a VP job his numbers suck.
No. I got it off the Western Rifle Shooters site. They have some grate memes and graphics posted there,
I don’t think the Rats can push NBC stuff since Kameltoe Hairass is exactly the same status as Ramaswammy.
People here in 2015 were saying Trump was a con man.
Please ‘splain. I don’t get it.I do understand the soviet / chicom hammer and sickle.
True, but, then again, Rats have no scruples and if weren’t for double standards, they would have no standards at all.
Yep. He says all the right things.
It’s easy for people to say he’s a con man, that he’s just saying those things.
But compare him to all those who can’t or won’t “say the right things!”
The fact that he can articulate them off the cuff is impressive. I like the guy.
HE NEEDS TO GET OUT OF THE RACE.
Why does he think he can do the job better than President Trump?
Thank you, Vivek, for doing the right thing.
He also has a really quick wit and impressive command of facts.
“It’s an unconstitutional and flagrant violation of the way we conduct elections in this country. This is not the way we do things in the United States of America. We the people are the ones who select our leaders, not unelected cabals of Democrat judges and back office,”
Exactly right. And it needs to be repeated over and over that it is indeed blatant election interference.
Maybe, he, just, wants to get his name out there and is hoping for a VP spot.
Everybody, but Christie Kreme knows that President Trump has the nomination locked up.
It is the Colorado State Flag, except for the communist symbol in the center.
Thanks and Merry Christmas!
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