2024 White House candidate Vivek Ramaswamy: 'You only get to be an outsider once'

The Chuck ToddCast

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🗓️ 10 March 2023

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy isn't waiting to wade into the Republican presidential primary field. He brings his 2024 campaign pitch against "the secular religions" he calls "wokeism," "gender ideology," "climateism" and "Covidism" to the Toddcast, telling Chuck, "when we rallied behind the cry to Make America Great Again, we did not just hunger for a single man."

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0:00.0	Hello there, I'm Chuck Todd and this is the Chuck Todd cast.
0:08.6	As the 2024 Republican primary begins to kick off some potential candidates, have been
0:13.6	slow to jump in, but one has it.
0:15.3	His name is Vivek Ramashwamy.
0:17.6	His experience isn't political.
0:19.4	It's in biotech and finance, and he's far from the first entrepreneur to enter a presidential
0:23.5	field, Democratic candidate.
0:25.3	His similar background did that in 2020 as well.
0:36.4	He attended CPAC and the club for growth events last week.
0:39.9	At the former, his campaign says a political consultant with ties to the conference offered
0:43.3	a second place finish in the straw poll.
0:46.2	In exchange for about $100,000, his campaign declined.
0:49.3	He came in with 1% of the vote.
0:51.3	So how does it candidate with less name recognition challenge the front runners?
0:55.2	Well, he joins me today to explain just that and is one of my favorite to mate moments
1:00.0	of all time.
1:01.6	Who are you and why are you here?
1:03.4	Is one of the great Admiral Stockdale lines.
1:06.0	I know I'm showing my age a little bit.
1:09.5	This was I think you were in single digits when that presidential debate happened.
1:13.5	But Vivek, welcome to the top cast.
1:15.2	Good to be on, man.
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