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The strategist for a super PAC for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has privately boasted to donors that his group is behind recent negative press about GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, a new report says. Jeff Roe, who runs operations for Never Back Down PAC, took credit for opposition research that has surfaced on Ramaswamy, 38, highlighting the shifting policy stances of the candidate, who is vying in a packed field that includes DeSantis and frontrunner Donald Trump, according to an audio recording obtained by Politico. “Everything you read about him is from us,” Roe, the founder and CEO of Axiom...

Donald Trump is surely watching Ramaswamy’s rise closely. Imagine a 2024 vice presidential debate where the GOP candidate is a brown-skinned man, and he is telling a black woman, Vice President Kamala Harris, that Democrats take minority voters for granted. Ramaswamy is preparing for that fight by taking his racial rhetoric to disturbing heights. “I’m sure the boogeyman ‘white supremacists’ exist somewhere in America – I have just never met him,” Ramaswamy said recently on CNN. “Never seen one…” Say what? Keep in mind, Ramaswamy spoke a year after a white racist went into a Buffalo grocery and killed 10...

GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy offered rare but mild criticism of former President Trump on Sunday when he called efforts to keep Trump in power following the 2020 election through a fake elector scheme “bad judgements.” Ramaswamy at first dodged ABC’s George Stephanopoulos’s pressing questions on “This Week” asking him if it was wrong for Trump associates to create slates of phony electors in states that Trump lost. Ramaswamy instead said that if he had been president, he would have “never let it get to that place.”

2024 GOP Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy join Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss his presidential campaign. ...

Presidential candidate Nikki Haley has tried to make age an issue in the campaign, calling for competency tests for candidates over 75 years old. Haley said in April that “we need to have mental competency tests… starting at 75 just to make sure that these people deciding our national security, deciding our economy policy, deciding what happens to our kids in schools [sic]. It matters.” That call for a “competency test” for candidates over 75 would also apply to Donald Trump. In truth, a competency test wouldn’t “diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or any other specific condition. However, the tests can...

Elon Musk is coming out in support of yet another controversial Republican figure. This time, he says he's throwing his weight behind the idea of GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for vice president. On Sunday, right-wing blogger Mike Cernovich wrote on X — the social media platform previously known as Twitter — that "Vivek is powerful." In response, an X user with the ID @AsTheWorldBurnz speculated that Ramaswamy "wants the VP pick." "He should get it imo," Musk tweeted in response to @AsTheWorldBurnz.

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy launched a "TRUTH. Over Myth" link on his 2024 campaign website on Monday morning, an effort his aides said will push back against the "lies" surrounding his campaign. The new link is meant to address "the BS, baloney, lies, and planted trash peddled by insecure campaigns, Super PAC puppets, 'listless vessels' of the political establishment, and fake establishment media," according to the description on the campaign website.

Anti-woke businessman Vivek Ramaswamy has been deemed the “real winner” of the first Republican primary debate, according to a J.L.Partners/DailyMail survey released Thursday.The survey asked registered Republicans, “Who do you think was the REAL winner of the debate?”Twenty-two percent chose Ramaswamy, followed by 21 percent who said former President Donald Trump, despite the fact that he was not present at the debate. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis followed both Ramaswamy and Trump with 20 percent deeming him the “REAL” winner of the debate. No other candidate came close, as eight percent said former Vice President Mike Pence, six percent said South...

But I would posit that perhaps Ramaswamy signifies something more. If you are a youngish person looking to get into politics or some other career of public renown, it’s only natural that you would model yourself on the people in your lifetime who have had ostentatious success in those areas, people like Obama and Trump and Musk. It seems likely that, in the future, we will see a lot more politicians like Vivek Ramaswamy.

Some Evangelical Christians are leaning toward Vivek’s candidacy, which for many Christians only lends credence to the fact that Christianity is plunging into apostasy. Vivek is a practicing Hindu.

CHICAGO - Backstage, as she prepares for a not-so-intimate “fireside chat” about gun safety in front of hundreds of people, Kamala Harris is unscripted and seemingly at ease, no notes or teleprompter in sight. She’s comfortable offering condolences and counsel to those who’ve lost loved ones to gun violence - who stream in wearing red shirts emblazoned with “Moms Demand Action” or “Students Demand Action.” She holds their hands and looks into their eyes. “We speak their names,” she whispers to one woman. **SNIP** Her tenure as Joe Biden’s No. 2 has not been known for relaxed and warm moments...

The 2024 candidate, who joins other elite-educated Republicans in cosplaying as a truth-telling populist while offering no actual solutions to improve people’s material conditions, has reportedly used some of his millions of dollars to pay a Wikipedia editor to scrub his past. Mediaite reports that Ramaswamy seems to have paid Wikipedia editor “Jhofferman,” to remove information from his page that he presumably thought would damage his candidacy in the Republican primary. A few days later, he announced his 2024 bid. The editor scrubbed off information related to Ramaswamy receiving the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans in 2011,...

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence offers a plea for the reinvigoration of American life. Based on the title, one might think that this book is a dystopian screed. It is not. Ramaswamy simply dreams of better things for the nation he loves. “If Americans come to see themselves as fellow citizens rather than each other’s victims,” he suggests, “then our Union can and should stay together.” Ramaswamy does not imagine a Golden Age to which we should return. Instead, he loves America today: “Next to most of the...

Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican presidential candidate whose popularity has recently been growing, said the United States should reduce military aid to Israel after securing expanded Abraham Accords agreements. Ramaswamy made this statement during an interview with podcaster Russell Brand on Rumble, a platform popular with more conservative and right-wing supporters. Ramaswamy recently pushed for the U.S. to reduce the amount of funding to allies for defense, requiring them to increase their own defense funding. He also advocated for a U.S. territorial priority in defense funding and strategic focus.

....alleges she was fired as co-head of institutional sales because she raised concerns about an executive making aggressive sexual advances toward a lower level staffer at the firm and about securities laws violations. Rosely also claimed Ramaswamy and Frericks pressured her into using sales materials that promised customers future returns and allowing unregistered employees to make sales pitches to customers, which both constitute securities violations. Additionally, Rosely allegedly complained about Ramaswamy’s social media posts, which, in her view, amounted to illegal securities sales. Another lawsuit was filed in June by John Phillips, who said he was lured to Strive Asset...

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said China could invade Taiwan without major consequences from the U.S. once he has hypothetically attained the nation’s “semiconductor independence” in 2028. Semiconductor independence: In an interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, Ramaswamy stressed the importance of semiconductors and why the U.S. should take aggressive action until the nation is able to produce its own. Ramaswamy noted that China would hypothetically not take the risk of aggressing towards Taiwan for his term “if we show we’re serious about [semiconductor independence].”

There is a wealthy businessman running for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination who has in the past given campaign contributions to Democrats and has a record of statements that don’t always sound like a conservative. His name isn’t Donald Trump. ... Late last week, he declined to say if he would have certified the election results as former Vice President Mike Pence did... ... Ramaswamy said on Feb. 6, 2021, that “Joe Biden is our legally elected President.” ... praised billionaire Democratic mega donor George Soros ... criticized Trump for not conceding the 2020 election ... had his name on...

Vice President Kamala Harris recently traveled to Florida to falsely claim the state's new curriculum on African-America history paints slavery as "beneficial." The curriculum is 216-pages long and extremely thorough, yet Harris took a single sentence completely out of context for political purposes. Now, she's being fact checked by Dr. William Allen -- a man who helped write the curriculum and a descendent of slaves. During a recent radio interview, Allen was asked if the wording of the curriculum should be changed after Harris' criticism. The answer is no. "My great grandfather is someone who came from the islands and...

Governor Phil Murphy (D-NJ) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Republican attacks on Vice President Kamala Harris are “offensive” because she is an “icon.” Anchor Margaret Brennan asked, “Let’s go national here. Nikki Haley, in particular, has focused on the Vice President Kamala Harris and a lot of her rhetoric and she’s done it as a way pointing to President Biden’s age. The RNC is posting frequently clips from her speeches, flubs and they’re really taking aim at her. Why have Republicans calculated it is a good strategy and that the vice president makes Democrats vulnerable?”

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