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Don’t take it just from me. Here are direct quotes from WSJ editorial board tonight. It’s all hiding in plain sight: “If she can remain competitive, there’s an argument for Ms. Haley to stay in the race through the July convention. Mr. Trump faces a treacherous legal road…Ms. Haley could stay in the race, rack up delegates, and see what happens if he is found guilty. “Strange things can happen with candidates who are this old and this disliked by a majority of the public. The 2024 election may have more twists before the Trump vs. Biden die is cast.”

The sons and daughters of Indians have for years had a positive knack for getting on in academia and the professions. These days, politics seems to be another field of human endeavor at which they are excelling.

A presidential candidate is finally talking about exercise in the context of reforming the broken American “health” care system.At the Republican debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy called on the health insurance industry to prioritize preventative medicine over high-dollar procedures that are only sought after disease has already taken hold. “They’ll pay for anything like feeding tubes, doctors to be pill pushers,” Ramaswamy said, but not for “the procedures that can actually make these patients better.”“Here’s the answer,” Ramaswamy added. “We need to start having diverse insurance options in a competitive marketplace that cover actual health, preventative medicine, diet,...

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is once again pressuring the Republican National Committee to change their debate format after audience declines across the previous three showdowns. “This January GOP debate should be held on X, not on cable TV, moderated by Tucker [Carlson], who might just ask questions that primary voters actually care about,” Ramaswamy said in a statement to The Post on Friday. “They say they want to reach younger voters and new audiences? Well that’s how you do it,” the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur added. The first Republican primary debate, hosted by Fox News Channel and held on Aug. 23...

GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy said Tuesday he is worried that an Israeli ground invasion of Gaza will trigger a series of events that will pull the U.S. into a larger conflict. Mr. Ramaswamy said he fears an invasion would increase the chances that the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah launched an attack on Israel from the north. “Israel is then in a two-front war,” Mr. Ramawamy said in a speech at the Hudson Institute, a conservative think tank in Washington. “There is no reasonable scenario to which, if Israel’s own existence is on the line, the U.S. isn’t going to...

Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy swiped at former President Donald Trump on Thursday for failing to repeal and replace the health care overhaul championed by his predecessor, former President Barack Obama. “I am never somebody who will make a false promise,” Ramaswamy said at an event in a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. “My friend Donald Trump promised us: repeal and replace Obamacare. Eight years later, did it happen? No, it did not. It is a false promise if it is contingent on Congress.” *** It was a rare dig at Trump by Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old businessman who is a fierce...

ORANGE CITY, IA -- Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says that as president, he would deport American-born children of undocumented immigrants. "The family unit will be deported," said Ramaswamy when asked by NBC News if the deportations would include American-born children, after a packed town hall here Friday. These children, however, are U.S. citizens, regardless of their parents' immigration status. The 14th Amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” When asked again if these children would...

The Republican presidential primaries continue to heat up as the candidates vie to become the main challenger to former President Donald Trump, who still maintains a considerable lead over the rest of the field. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has stayed in 2nd place in the polling, has experienced a slump in his campaign, which has allowed entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy to pose a significant threat to his position.Perhaps this is the reason why DeSantis-aligned organizations are reportedly targeting the upstart. But if DeSantis manages to fend off Ramaswamy’s ascension, when will he finally begin taking on Trump?Politico obtained an audio...

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...

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...

At the center of the stage, and the center of the debate's hottest exchanges, was a 38-year-old man who no one expected to be there even a few months ago – a novice candidate and technology entrepreneur named Vivek Ramaswamy. Though he’s well behind Trump, Ramaswamy has crept up in recent polls, leading to his position next to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis at center stage. And he quickly showed why when he showcased his ready-for-video, on-message approach, talking about how his poor parents moved to the U.S. and he had the ability to found billion-dollar companies. Mp> Then Ramaswamy tried...

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, a long-shot contender for the Republican presidential nomination, said in an interview that the United States should reduce its aid to Israel.In an interview on Rumble, a platform popular with far-right viewers, Ramaswamy said Israel should not get more aid than its Middle Eastern neighbors after 2028, the year that the current US aid package of $38 billion expires.

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.

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].”

At a town hall event last week, presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spoke about China. @jill3686 9 days ago I have to say, he explains everything clearly. I've been saying... He's got my vote. @thomasvest7111 4 days ago This guy is head and shoulders above every other political candidate in knowledge, intelligence and drive. He will be savaged by the left wing media as "more Trump than Trump", but will survive the initial state primaries. He needs our support. @elizabethdavis4612 9 days ago Thank you Vivek for explaining how the CCP infiltrated and harm American culture. I've been trying for years...

Vivek Ramaswamy was right on target. The businessman turned politician, currently polling a distant third in the Republican primary field, according to RealClearPolitics, was pressing the flesh at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on Sunday when a self-described “pansexual” woman tried to corner him with a question clearly aimed at throwing him off his pace. But Ramaswamy took it in stride — and delivered a lesson while he was at it. Check out the interaction here, in a video posted to Ramaswamy’s Facebook page. CLICK ABOVE ARTICLE LINK FOR THE VIDEO OF THE EXCHANGE The initial, actual quote...

The GOP presidential hopeful who kicked off his campaign with a declaration of 10 foundational TRUTHs beginning with “God is real” recently strayed from truth when he declared that homosexuality is “hardwired” at birth and that the burgeoning number of transgendered individuals are folks who are “really just gay.” The claims were made by candidate Vivek Ramaswamy during a recent “All-In Podcast.” “The gay rights movement was predicated on the idea, which I’m quite sympathetic to, that the sex of the person that you’re attracted to is hardwired on the day you’re born,” Ramaswamy said. His assertion that homosexuality is...

Vivek Ramaswamy left Republican voters scratching their heads after he said in an interview that he wants to evaluate giving pardons to members of the Biden family if he’s elected president.That stood in contrast to recent calls by Ramaswamy for a special counsel to criminally investigate the Biden family for its business dealings and alleged influence peddling.“After the I am leading the great revival. After we have shut down the FBI, after we have refurbished the Department of Justice, after we have systemically pardoned anyone who was a victim of a political motivated persecution — from Donald Trump and peaceful...

VIVEK RAMASWAMY: Well, I started at 0.0 percent in March. I'm now at an unambiguous third in this race. And we're just getting warmed up ahead of the first debate stage. The thing about me is, I'm not attacking any of my fellow candidates. I am not running against them. I am running for this country. And that's what I see on the ground in Iowa and elsewhere. People are hungry for an actual affirmative vision, not, what are we running from? What are we running to? For my part, I stand for the America first agenda. I believe I...