Marshall and Saga here. Welcome back to The Realignment.

Hey everyone, got a great episode. We interviewed presidential candidate Vivek Ramashrami about

his candidacy, what he's focused on, his agenda, his priorities, pushed him a bit. Only

at 30 minutes, not quite the format length. We typically enjoy, but this is what you get

for entering in this side of the game. Hope you all enjoy. This conversation will definitely

help you.

Vivek Ramashrami, welcome to The Realignment. Good to be on, guys.

Absolutely. So Vivek, I think it's important just to put this out at the top. One of the ways I

became prominent, honestly, was just by interviewing newer candidates to the field,

unconventional candidates, and kind of treating them seriously. So at the top, I just want to say

you to the audience, I'm going to treat you the same way that I treated Andrew Yang, Tulsi Gabbard,

President Trump, Mike Pompeo, and the people that we've interviewed here. So I think at the top,

number one, what is the case for your candidacy? Yeah. The case for my candidacy is I'm not

advancing somebody else's vision. I'm advancing my own. And it is a vision for national identity

at a point where we lack one. I think America is in the middle of this identity crisis where

if you ask most people my age, most people your guy's age for that matter. What does it mean to be an

American in the year 2023? You get a blank stare in response. And I think that's a problem.

And I think much with the Republican party's focused on attacking from

wokeism to gender ideology to climatism to COVIDism for that matter, which I've also been a critic of,

fierce critic of, is just a symptom of that deeper identity crisis. And I don't see another candidate

in this field stepping up to actually offer an affirmative vision of national identity that can

dilute that vision to irrelevance. And as part of that, I'm also willing to take on issues that

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