Vivek Ramaswamy announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 on Tucker Carlson’s Fox News show and in a video posted on Tuesday.
The 37-year-old billionaire, who has been dubbed the “CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.,” founded biotech company Roivant Science in 2014 and served as its CEO until 2021. That same year, he published Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam. He is the son of Indian immigrants.
VIVEK RAMASWAMY RUNS FOR PRESIDENT: ‘UNAPOLOGETIC PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY’
“We’ve celebrated our ‘diversity’ so much that we forgot all the ways we’re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago,” Ramaswamy said in his announcement video posted on Twitter on Tuesday evening. “I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. I’m running for president to revive them.”
We’ve celebrated our “diversity” so much that we forgot all the ways we’re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago. I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. I’m running for President to revive them. pic.twitter.com/bz5Qtt4tmm
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 22, 2023
Ramaswamy had been hinting at his presidential aspirations, telling Fox News his vision is about restoring the “national identity in America” and railing against “the poison of wokeism and climatism and transgenderism — and COVIDism for that matter.”
“Yes, I’ve accomplished things, but so has everyone else who would be running in this race too. I think I am running on a vision that I believe I can articulate what it means to be an American in 2023,” Ramaswamy told Fox News.
During his segment on Fox News in which he announced his candidacy, Ramaswamy said he was running because the country is facing an “identity crisis.”
“We are in the middle of this national identity crisis, Tucker, where we have celebrated our differences for so long that we forgot all the ways we are really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago,” he said. “That’s why I am proud to say tonight that I am running for United States president to revive those ideals in this country. I think we need to put merit back into America.”
Ramaswamy added that his platform centers on four ideals: restoring merit and excellence over equity in America, restraining Big Tech to ensure free speech, rolling back civil service protections for federal employees, and reducing the country’s economic dependency on China, according to Axios.
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Ramaswamy is the third person to announce a presidential bid, joining former President Donald Trump and Nikki Haley, the former GOP governor of South Carolina and ambassador to the United Nations.
