Our Interview With GOP Presidential Hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 19 May 2023
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:06.3 | I must smile with, I cover the White House. |
| 0:08.2 | And I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. |
| 0:10.0 | And today on the show we're joined by Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswami. |
| 0:15.1 | Vivek Ramaswami, welcome to the show. |
| 0:17.0 | God to be on, how are you all? |
| 0:18.0 | Oh, we're great, Mr. Ramaswami. |
| 0:19.0 | We have to thank you because you are the inaugural candidate in our series we hope to be doing |
| 0:23.4 | on the 2024 presidential candidate. |
| 0:25.4 | So welcome. |
| 0:26.4 | And I think we have a bit of a kinship because apparently you also host a podcast. |
| 0:29.8 | Well, I've started that very recently. |
| 0:31.9 | I'm trying to lift the veil on the campaign process, which is a little bit mystifying to a lot |
| 0:36.9 | of people. |
| 0:37.9 | But I just have an open conversations and taping them and putting them out as a podcast. |
| 0:41.9 | So I've been enjoying doing that as well. |
| 0:43.6 | All right. |
| 0:44.6 | So for folks who may not be very familiar with your bio, we wanted to just give a brief |
| 0:48.4 | introduction to your story. |
| 0:50.8 | You're the son of Indian immigrants who grew up in Ohio, a Midwestern, I will say, I'm |
| 0:55.2 | a fellow Midwesterner. |
| 0:56.2 | You went on to Harvard. |
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