Washington: Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American tech entrepreneur, has launched his 2024 Presidential bid with a promise to “put merit back” and end dependence on China, becoming the 2nd community member to enter the Republican Party's presidential primary after Nikki Haley.
The statement was made by Ramaswamy, 37, during a live interview with Tucker Carlson, a conservative political pundit on Fox News' prime time programme. Carlson's parents immigrated to the United States from Kerala, and Ramaswamy worked at a General Electric facility in Ohio. He is the second Indian-American to run for president in the Republican party.
Ms. Haley, a two-term former governor of South Carolina and a former American ambassador to the UN, declared her candidature for president earlier this month. She declared that she would run for the Republican Party nomination against Donald Trump, her former employer and the former president of the United States.
In the midst of a national identity crisis, Ramaswamy said, "We have forgotten all the ways we are actually simply the same as Americans united by a common set of ideas that set this nation into action 250 years ago." He labels "wokeism" a menace to the country. He declared, "I am proud to state today that I am running for President of the United States to resurrect those principles in our country.
He said that he will stop affirmative action in "every aspect of American life," saying, "I think we need to put 'merit' back into 'America' in every spirit of our lives. According to his biography, Mr. Ramaswamy, a second-generation Indian American, founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and oversaw the biggest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016. His efforts eventually paid off with the FDA approval of products resulting from successful clinical trials in numerous disease areas.
He has developed numerous prosperous healthcare and technology businesses, and in 2022 he established Strive Asset Management, a brand-new company with the mission of reviving the voices of regular Americans in the American economy by inspiring businesses to put quality over politics.
"I'm all for putting America first, but we have to relearn what America is first in order to do that. And in my opinion, those are the fundamental laws of the land that propelled this country towards meritocracy, freedom of speech, and self-governance over aristocracy.
Instead of this malignant federal bureaucracy running the government, the people we elect actually do it. That will be the focus of my speech, Mr. Ramaswamy said in an interview with Fox News. He said, the emergence of China is one of the foreign threats facing the US.
"It has to be our top foreign policy threat that we have to respond to, not useless conflicts elsewhere," the president said. "It will involve some giving up. It will need to declare its independence from China and fully decouple. And that won't be simple. There may be some inconvenience involved," he stated.
He said the U.S. faces external threats like the rise of China.
We need to realise that China is infringing on our sovereignty because otherwise, if that balloon had been a Russian spy craft, we would have shot it down right away and stepped up our penalties. He questioned, "Why didn't we do it for China. "The solution is easy. They are essential to our contemporary way of life. This co-dependent economic relationship must end, he declared.
While Ramaswamy used Tucker Carlson's programme to declare his candidature for president, Democratic National Committee chair Jaime Harrison stated in a statement that one thing is obvious: the race for the Make America Great Again (MAGA) base is growing messier and more crowded by the day.
Republicans will undoubtedly adopt extremely extreme positions over the coming months on issues ranging from outlawing abortion to slashing Social Security and Medicare, according to Mr. Harrison. "We look forward to continuing to ensure every American knows just how extreme the MAGA agenda is," he added.
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