2023-08-14 13:02:38
Future candidate for the White House, Vivek Ramaswamy is not afraid to rush into the stretchers. The American politician who will face Donald Trump in the Republican primaries does not even hesitate to rap during his meetings.
At 38, Vivek Ramaswamy made his fortune in biotechnology. Whoever describes environmental activists as a “religious sect” wants to be even more right-wing than Trump: “I want to push his program even further”. To everyone’s surprise, this complete political novice now occupies third place in the polls for the Republican primaries which will take place in early 2024.
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A vegetarian who wants to “burn coal”
On the pitch, Vivek Ramaswamy has made his fight against “wokism” an obsession. “We are in the midst of an identity crisis,” says the 30-year-old father of two, who accuses the country’s elites of spreading a “cultural cancer”, especially on LGBT+ issues. He even wrote a book on the subject, “Woke Inc.”, which is a hit in the United States.
More than ten Republicans are currently in the running for the primaries, but Vivek Ramaswamy manages to stand out with a very radical program. This piano-loving vegetarian wants to push back the right to vote to 25 and lay off 90% of the staff of the American central bank and the Department of Justice. His solution to boost growth in the United States? “Burn coal, without qualms”.
“Like all the other candidates, the only chance for Ramaswamy to get out of this is if Trump collapses,” political scientist Kyle Kondik told AFP. While most primary candidates are careful not to criticize Donald Trump too directly, the 30-year-old goes even further: he has invited all his peers to pledge to pardon Trump if they are elected.
A Republican rap fan
Son of Indian immigrants, of Hindu religion, Vivek Ramaswamy studied at Harvard. He even lent himself to rap under the nickname “Da Vek” with libertarian lyrics. Fan of Eminem, he even covered pieces of the rapper this Saturday at an agricultural fair in Iowa, in front of a conquered audience.
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“If you think speaker Vivek Ramaswamy is intense, you haven’t met Da Vek yet,” Harvard’s student newspaper The Crimson humorously noted in 2006. Along with his biotech company Roivant, the 30-year-old has amassed more than $600 million in personal wealth, which helps fund his campaign. “It’s not just a political campaign,” the candidate said recently. “It’s a cultural movement, to build a new American dream. »
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