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#GOP: Ramaswamy is none of the above. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News an

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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#GOP: Ramaswamy is none of the above. Liz Peek The Hill. Fox News an
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/vivek-ramaswamy-surprise-everyone-first-republican-debate



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0:00.0

This is CBSI in the world with my colleague Elizabeth Peek, a columnist at the Hill,

0:09.0

Convist at Fox News, much on Fox Business, and Elizabeth's new column at Fox News, I recommend.

0:14.9

It is an observation of a non-politician who will be on the debate stage in Milwaukee

0:20.2

with the Republican politicians. His name is Vivek Ramaswamy. He's not 40. He's well

0:25.4

to do. He speaks extremely well, not like a politician, like a man who's presenting

0:31.1

the case for an IPO. And yet, Liz, it's wonderful to talk about somebody who isn't a politician.

0:38.4

At the same time, he's doing politics. What to make of that?

0:42.6

Well, I think he's a bit of a, you know, look, I think that voters are always intrigued

0:47.8

by someone who does not have a political background. Let's face it, that's why Donald

0:51.3

Trump, to some degree, got an awful lot of excitement early on. Here was a guy who had built

0:56.8

a fortune. He knew how to manage things, and he had never taken money from special interest

1:03.4

groups. So he seemed to have a fresh view of our political system. And indeed, he got elected.

1:09.2

So Vivek Ramaswamy is a different cast character altogether. He shares with Donald Trump,

1:16.5

the fact that he's a successful entrepreneur, a successful businessman, has accumulated

1:21.3

quite a large amount of money, at about $300, $400 million. But he is not someone who's

1:29.5

well-known. And that's obviously Donald Trump is extremely well-known because of his television

1:33.6

career. Ramaswamy has gone, I think, rather remarkably, actually from in March, not being

1:39.0

known about by anybody, to now being number two in a bunch of the polls in the GIP primary

1:46.1

polls, or excuse me, number three, behind Trump and behind DeSantis. And a couple of polls,

1:51.1

he's actually ahead of DeSantis. But you have to say, it's a pretty remarkable ascent

1:57.6

for somebody with a pretty odd name. And again, no prior history of being on news channels

2:04.3

or whatever. And I think the reason is, he's bold. He says what he thinks, he's extremely

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