Don’t be shocked if Vivek exhibits up on the subsequent GOP presidential debate sporting a Donald Trump mugshot T-shirt.
If the 38-year-old shock candidate of the yr might carry out Eminem’s “Lose Yourself” rap tune on the Iowa State Fair, then something is feasible.
It is protected to say that no different candidate operating might rap as nicely.
Vivek Ramaswamy has the political world speaking, not solely due to his audacity to compete towards a stage stuffed with political execs, however to take action whereas praising Trump, whom he considers a mentor.
They all, to 1 diploma of one other, are operating towards Trump. Vivek appears to be operating with him.
And if the Milwaukee debate hosted by Fox News was meant to be a job interview to be Trump’s 2024 operating mate, then Vivek scored nicely. With Trump a no present, Vivek was capable of turn out to be his stand in and a focus.
Trump even raved about his Vivek’s efficiency.
If by some miracle Vivek did turn out to be president, one of many first issues he would do is pardon Trump, who’s going through jail time on account of 4 Democrat produce political indictments.
Most of the others would favor for Trump to serve time if he had been to be convicted of something.
Vivek has struck a chord with many Republicans and with conservatives as nicely. He has additionally ruffled feathers of the opposite candidates,
Chris Christie referred to as him an “amateur,” former Vice President Mike Pence referred to as him a “rookie,’ U.S. Sen. Tim Scott said he was “childish,” and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley mentioned he didn’t know what he was speaking about.
It clearly grated on Pence, Christie and the others that an “amateur” like Vivek, who has by no means run for workplace earlier than, was beating them within the polls.
Vivek took the assaults on him as excessive reward, contemplating that six months in the past no one even knew who he was, and he right here he was besting a lot of the seven different GOP candidates on the presidential debate stage.
Vivek, who has been financing his personal marketing campaign, referred to as all of them “superPAC puppets.” He claimed to be the one candidate on the stage who was not “bought and paid for.”
It is attention-grabbing to notice that whereas Haley and Vivek went after one another over international coverage, each candidates had been born within the U.S. from mother and father who migrated from India.
It is the primary time that two Americans of Indian descent are operating for president as Republicans.
Democrat Vice President Kamala Harris, born in Oakland, can be of Indian descent. Her father was born in Jamaica and her mom in India.
Indians, like different minority immigrant teams, have come a good distance in America. It was not too way back (2006) that Joe Biden, then a wiseguy Delaware senator, mentioned, “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking.”
Haley, 51, made her bones as a two-term governor of South Carolina after which Trump’s secretary to the United Nations. Her husband is a serious within the South Carolina Army National Guard who’s presently serving in Africa.
Vivek is a profitable and rich biotech entrepreneur who based Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical firm.
He can be controversial, calling the local weather change agenda “a hoax” and questions whether or not the federal government has informed the general public all it is aware of concerning the Islamic terrorists who crashed into the New York Trade Center and took 3,000 lives on 9/11.
He would construct the wall, abolish the Department of Education and remove the FBI.
Vivek additionally questions the billions of {dollars} which have been despatched to maintain Ukraine in its warfare with Russia, cash that might have been higher spent serving to Americans.
He could be very younger as presidential candidates go, however he has an ego equal or larger than any of them, together with Trump.
If requested if he can be Trump’s operating mate, Vivek is prone to reply by asking if Trump can be his.
Peter Lucas is a veteran Massachusetts political reporter and columnist.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”