Category: Vivek Ramaswamy

Ramaswamy Takes on DeSantis Over Fight Against Disney and Wokeness

Commentary “Trouble ahead, trouble behind” the Grateful Dead used to sing, and right now those lyrics are ringing true for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. The “trouble ahead” is obviously Donald J. Trump, who, at this point, is leaving the governor in the electoral dust in the Republican presidential derby. The “trouble behind” is outsider candidate…


‘Shut Down the Administrative State’: 2024 Presidential Candidate Vows to Cure America’s ‘Cultural Cancer’

NEW YORK—Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy made his first major splash in 2014 after founding a company that developed a drug for treating prostate cancer. A child of immigrants from India who arrived in America with almost no money, Ramaswamy started the biotechnology firm at the age of 29 and quickly built it into a multi-billion…


‘Shut Down the Administrative State,’ 2024 Presidential Candidate Vows

NEW YORK—Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy made his first major splash in 2014 after founding a company that developed a drug for treating prostate cancer. A child of immigrants from India who arrived in America with almost no money, Ramaswamy started the biotechnology firm at the age of 29 and quickly built it into a multi-billion…


2024 Presidential Candidate Wants to ‘Shut Down the FBI,’ Replace It

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he would attempt to shut down the FBI and replace it with another entity if he’s elected president. During an interview with “Meet the Press” on Sunday, Ramaswamy, a businessman, suggested that he does not want to “defund the FBI” after host Chuck Todd suggested it. “I didn’t say defund…


‘Abortion Is a Form of Murder’: Vivek Ramaswamy

2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy burnished his pro-life bona fides at the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition kick-off on April 22. That was how he explained his stance on how abortion should be handled now that Roe v. Wade has fallen. Representatives have battled over its legal status, with many Republicans seeking to restrict…


Vivek Ramaswamy Files Lawsuit Against World Economic Forum

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is suing the World Economic Forum (WEF) for affiliating him as one of its “Young Global Leaders,” despite rejecting the request and repeatedly asking to be removed from its list of members. “I fundamentally disagree with the WEF agenda,” Ramaswamy said in a post on Twitter Tuesday. “I’ve been one…


Is Vivek Ramaswamy Trump 2.0?

Commentary NORTH CONWAY. N.H.—Vivek Ramaswamy isn’t making much of a dent in the polls yet, but judging from the audience reaction at a packed Masonic lodge in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, it won’t be long. Everyone was paying close attention. There was no sense in the room of skepticism over why this 37-year-old guy—out of nowhere…


Trump 2024 Fundraising Soars Nearly $19 Million First Quarter After Indictment

Former President Donald Trump raised about $18.8 million in fundraising in the first three months of this year, with much of the money coming in after his indictment and arraignment in Manhattan, according to his campaign. Trump’s campaign provided the three-month figure to Fox News and added that $15.4 million of the total were collected…


Vivek Ramaswamy Isn’t Running for Second Place, but He Might Get It

Commentary In the midst of the uproar over former President Donald Trump’s indictment, Greg Kelly, on his popular Newsmax show, spoke forcefully in favor of entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy as Trump’s running mate. He did this although Ramaswamy, as yet, has failed to register more than a point or two, if that, in the polls. And…


Vivek Ramaswamy Says America Must Return to Meritocracy

Republican presidential candidate and tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy warned of a “listlessness in American society” caused by its abandonment of meritocratic principles in a recent speech. Speaking at the National Review Institute’s Ideas Summit on March 31, Ramaswamy diagnosed what he believes is responsible for the popularity of “woke” ideas among young people in the…