‘If Trump is nominee, I’ll help him. If I’m President…’: Vivek Ramaswamy

Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy mentioned on Sunday that whereas he expects to turn out to be the celebration’s nominee for the November 2024 US elections, however will vote for Donald Trump if the previous president secures the nomination.

Appearing on a Sunday speak present, the 38-year-old Indian American entrepreneur additionally expressed his intention to pardon Trump, who at the moment faces an array of authorized challenges, ought to he be elected as President of the United States.

“If Donald Trump’s the nominee — yes, I will support him, and if I’m the president, yes, I will pardon him because that will help reunite the country. But it’s not the most important thing I’m going to do as the next president. It is the table stakes for moving this country forward,” Ramaswamy advised ABC News.

Following his spectacular efficiency within the inaugural Republican major presidential debate final month, Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur-turned-politician, has skilled a surge in recognition, competing alongside fellow Indian American rival Nikki Haley, the previous Governor of South Carolina.

Ramaswamy is notably the only Republican presidential hopeful to brazenly endorse Trump, who’s dealing with a number of expenses and is at the moment out on bail, and his ‘America First’ insurance policies, together with stances on points like local weather change.

“My bottom line is that I will vote for the person who I think is best positioned to move this country forward. I do not think that’s Joe Biden. I do not think that is whichever other puppet, Kamala Harris or anybody else, that they roll out after Joe Biden,” he mentioned.

Ramaswamy mentioned whereas he might have disagreements with a number of of his Republican counterparts on numerous points, he firmly believes that any of them can be more practical than Biden or Harris in steering the US in the direction of progress.

“That is my arbitrator after I solid my vote for who the following president is — who’s going to serve the pursuits of the American individuals? That’s not some form of dedication pushed by vengeance or grievance. It is pushed by a dedication to our function as residents of this nation.

“That’s what we need to revive in the United States, our civic spirit, remembering that even the ‘America First’ movement is bigger than Donald Trump. It is bigger than me. It is bigger than one political candidate,” he said.

Ramaswamy said the ‘America First’ movement belongs to the people of the US, the same people who still retain the power to elect their next president, and he aims to preserve this system rather than see it replaced by a federal police state determining the nation’s leadership, “and I stand by that without apology”.

Ramaswamy mentioned he’s within the US presidential race as a result of he expects to be the Republican nominee and lead the nation ahead.

The Indian American candidate reiterated his opinion that lots of the expenses in opposition to Trump are politically motivated that set a detrimental precedent for the United States.

“I do not want to see us become a banana republic where the administrative police state uses police force to eliminate opponents from competition. That’s not the way it works,” he mentioned.

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Sep 3, 2023