It is 7:30 Saturday evening in Des Moines, Iowa, and the campaign headquarters for Vivek Ramaswamy is rocking. There isn’t a phone that isn’t being used by a volunteer to call either precinct captains or a county chair or co-chair, a grassroots activist, or any of the number of people who attended any one of the hundreds of events the Columbus, Ohio entrepreneur has attended here since launching his candidacy for president last year.
The candidate himself left here Saturday morning at 4:00 a.m. for a 600-mile swing through the state during a blizzard. It is important to note his jaunt in the snow was not in a last-minute ditch to make sure he left nothing on the field — he hasn’t. Ramaswamy had done what in Iowa is known as a “full Grassley” twice (visiting all 99 counties two times) and held over 390 events, a number that exceeds all of the other Republican presidential candidates combined and the most in Iowa caucus history.
