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What Next - What’s Vivek Ramaswamy’s Deal?

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3.91.1K 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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Many, how would you describe Vivek Ramaswami's campaign strategy right now?

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So, I've described Vivek's strategy as it's in everywhere all at once.

0:47.0

Talk to everybody campaign.

0:50.0

He's working 80 hours a day.

0:53.0

He's just fitting in every media, social media, podcast opportunity he can.

0:59.0

And just trying to get his name in front of as many people as possible.

1:04.0

Many raker is a staff writer covering politics for Time Magazine.

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She's describing what it's like to closely follow a presidential candidate who's a political newcomer,

1:14.0

someone who needs to get his voice out there.

1:17.0

Even, you know, when he sat with me in this car, we were going between campaign events.

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And that was kind of different, I think, because he was speaking to print reporters,

1:27.0

so he was a little more careful and slower in what he said.

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But like even then, he was so, you could tell he brought so much energy and thought to it.

1:38.0

Like you wonder if there's ever a moment where he's ever off.

1:44.0

At age 38, Ramaswami is a businessman, a former hedge fund manager, a law school grad.

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