BREAKING NEWS: Conservative entrepreneur and 'anti-woke' crusader Vivek Ramaswamy launches GOP presidential campaign
, a health care and tech sector entrepreneur, conservative commentator and author who has become a crusader in the culture wars, declared his candidacy for president on Tuesday in a live interview with Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.
"I think we need to put ‘merit’ back into ‘America’ in every spirit of our lives," continued Ramaswamy, who said he will end affirmative action in"every sphere of American life."has been on what he’s described as a"listening tour" in recent weeks, which took him earlier this month to New Hampshire, which votes second in the Republican presidential nominating calendar.
Ramaswamy said that his campaign is"about the unapologetic pursuit of excellence in our country. It means you believe in merit; that you get ahead in this country not on the color of your skin but on the content of your character and your contributions." "I’m 37 years old. When you ask people my age and younger what it means to be American today, you get a blank stare," he said."I have a vision of what the answer to that question ought to be," Ramaswamy said."I care about advancing that vision."
Ramaswamy is calling for a"total decoupling" from Communist China, which he argued is a greater threat to America today than the Soviet Union was during the Cold War because China makes the"shoes on our feet and the phones in our pockets."
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