Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's rags-to-riches story he frequently touts on the campaign trail doesn't quite add up, a Fox News Digital analysis has found.
FIRST ON FOX:Vivek Ramaswamy frequently touts a rags-to-riches story on the campaign trail, declaring during Wednesday night’s debate that his parents immigrated to the U.S. with nothing, but public records and Ramaswamy’s past writings paint a more nuanced picture about his upbringing.in Milwaukee."I'm an entrepreneur. My parents came to this country with no money 40 years ago. I have gone on to found multibillion dollar companies.
It’s a narrative the multimillionaire millennial often uses to connect with voters on the campaign trail, while also attempting to differentiate himself from former President Donald Trump. Ramaswamy's father held a graduate degree in engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Calicut, when he immigrated to the U.S. in the 1970s.
RAMASWAMY CHANGES TUNE FROM PREVIOUS COMMENTS ON TRUMP AHEAD OF GOP DEBATE: ‘NOT THE SAME DONALD TRUMP’ Ramaswamy attended an elite private high school in Cincinnati where tuition today costs over $16,000 per year. "There was a separate scholarship that I won at the age of 24-25, when I was going to law school in my mid-20s, in my early 20s, when I didn't have the money and it was a merit scholarship that hundreds of kids win, that was partially funded, not by George Soros, but by Paul Soros a relative, his brother,""And to be perfectly honest with you, I would have had to be a fool to turn down that scholarship at the age of 24," he added.
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