WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — Fresh from penning another Wall Street Journal op-ed, Ohio entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is set to pay another campaign call on the Hawkeye State.
The GOP presidential candidate plans a five-day, six-stop bus tour next week, including a rally with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.
Ramaswamy’s campaign swing begins at 7 p.m. Tuesday at a Free Speech America Event at the Palace Event Center in Treynor, according to his campaign. The session is titled “Civil Discourse or Civil War: How America Can Emerge from Her Crisis.”
On Wednesday, May 10, Ramaswamy is scheduled to speak at the Johnson County Republican Central Committee Dinner and fundraiser in Iowa City. The following day, Ramaswamy will appear at Royal Flooring’s corporate headquarters in Urbandale to rally with the governor. The event, sponsored by the Dallas County GOP, begins at 5:30 p..m.
“On May 11th, the Dallas County Republicans will host Vivek Ramasamy, the first millennial candidate to run for President as a Republican, to rally Iowa’s Young Republicans,” the organisation’s website states. “The event is designed to motivate participation in next year’s Iowa Caucuses.”
At 37, Ramaswamy is the youngest presidential candidate in the increasingly crowded field of competitors.
The anti-woke crusader continues his Iowa trip — the fourth since announcing his campaign in February — on Friday, May 12, at the Clinton County Iowa Republican Central Committee Spring Banquet at the Millennium Ballroom in Goose Lake. Ramaswamy has scheduled two campaign stops on Saturday, May 13, meeting with business owners in Cedar Rapids at 11:15 a.m. and a conversation with the Five Seasons Republican Women’s Club, time to be announced.
Ramaswamy heads back to Iowa with rising poll numbers and a growing spotlight on his campaign. He’s polling among the top five GOP contenders, according to RealClearPolitics’ latest average of Republican presidential primary polls. Former President Donald Trump continues to dominate the field, with 52 percent support among Republican primary voters, followed by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (22.9 percent), who is expected to officially announce his White House run later this month.
But political outsider Ramaswamy has generated a lot of headlines, from his plan to replace the FBI and get rid of the U.S. Department of Education to his call for America to “decouple” from China.
This week Ramaswamy spelled out one of his economic positions in a Wall Street Journal piece headlined, “Prosperity Requires a Stable Dollar.” In it, the biotech multimillionaire argues that the Federal Reserve has tried to do too much, giving American consumers a volatile currency. Ramaswamy says he would change that as president.
In an interview last week with The Star News Network, Ramaswamy said he’s running on an America First 2.0 agenda.
“I’m going further than Trump ever did, and I’m doing it on first principles and moral authority, not just vengeance and grievance,” he said.
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M.D. Kittle is the National Political Editor for The Star News Network.
Photo “Vivek Ramaswamy” by Vivek Ramaswamy.
The all Americans…..this guy is a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow, he made his fortune in big pharma and hedge fund companies. And he was a WEF Young Global Leaders Class of 2021. He says he refused the nomination from WEF but I find that very suspect. There are many people nominated for a YGL class so why would they push someone through to the end of the process that refused the nomination? They could have just as easily removed him as a candidate and picked another from the pile of nominations. Also, WHEN did his parents become US citizens. There is nothing anywhere that shows when his parents became US citizens. If they were still citizens of India when he was born in Ohio then that makes him not eligible to be President or Vice President. He would not meet the requirement of being a natural born citizen. It appears to me as if he is hiding this from the public. If anyone finds the date in which his parents were US citizens please share it because I think he knows he is not a NBC. BTW…..Nikki Haley is not a NBC and neither is Kamala Harris. There is a big difference between being a citizen and a natural born citizen and Harris, Haley and maybe Ramaswamy are not NBC. Dr. Shiva is running as an Independent but he was born in India to 2 Indian parents. There is no doubt he is not eligible either. As our population becomes overrun with immigrants it will get harder and harder to meet the requirement but that does not mean we just ignore the Constitution. I believe Vivek is NOT what he wants people to believe he is. Would also like to see his voting record.