What Next - What’s Vivek Ramaswamy’s Deal?
What Next | Daily News and Analysis
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4.3 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Polls show Vivek Ramaswamy pulling even with Ron DeSantis in the Republican presidential primary, trailing only Donald Trump (albeit substantially).
How did Ramaswamy go from anonymous multimillionaire to a potential Trump alternative in just six months? And what would a Ramaswamy administration look like?
Guest: Mini Racker, staff writer covering politics for TIME Magazine.
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| 0:36.4 | Mini, how would you describe Vivek Ramaswami's campaign strategy right now? |
| 0:42.5 | So I've described Vivek's strategy as it's in everywhere all at once, talk to everybody |
| 0:48.8 | campaign. |
| 0:51.4 | He's working 80 hours a day. |
| 0:53.6 | He's just fitting in every media, social media, podcast opportunity he can and just trying |
| 1:00.2 | to get his name in front of as many people as possible. |
| 1:04.6 | Mini Raker is a staff writer covering politics for Time Magazine. |
| 1:08.8 | She's describing what it's like to closely follow a presidential candidate who's a political |
| 1:13.7 | newcomer, someone who needs to get his voice out there. |
| 1:18.4 | And when he sat with me in this car, we were going between campaign events and that |
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