Posted on 05/25/2023 5:25:25 PM PDT by libh8er
IN HIS BATTLE against Ron DeSantis for the 2024 nomination, Donald Trump and his allies believe they’ve found a new weapon in their effort to bury the Florida governor.
His name is Vivek Ramaswamy, a 37-year-old “anti-woke” entrepreneur .. who vows to be even Trumpier than Trump.
The explanation for the former president’s interest in Ramaswamy’s campaign is simple: The insurgent candidate has spent much of his run for office trashing Trump’s top rival, DeSantis. As Ramaswamy’s poll numbers and standing in the primary have risen a bit in recent weeks, so has Trump’s interest. The former president has praised him both publicly and privately, offered encouragement for his White House bid, and has even told Ramaswamy how good-looking he is.
-- Starting in early March, multiple Trump advisers began telling Rolling Stone that the team was keeping an eye on Ramaswamy, and were expecting (and hoping for) a coming polling boomlet for the candidate. This, the advisers said, would force DeSantis to expend resources attacking Ramaswamy and other lower-polling, non-Trump candidates. There are already signs that Team DeSantis is sensing increasing threats from below, with top DeSantis allies going out of their way to snipe at candidates like Nikki Haley..
And according to two people who’ve spoken to Trump about Ramaswamy...the ex-president has explicitly said he likes what Ramaswamy is saying about DeSantis, and that “I’m not going to attack Vivek” — unless he starts coming after Trump.
The ex-president also noted how well Ramaswamy presents himself on TV, and how much he appreciates the candidate regularly lauding the Trump administration. This year, Trump has at times joked about the possibility of Ramaswamy using his presidential run to audition for a slot in a potential second Trump term, with the former president asking confidants: “Does he want a job?”
(Excerpt) Read more at rollingstone.com ...
Whzts going on between Trump and DeSantis is about as useless as the global mess going on between Russia and Ukraine.
If they take Trump out with LAW-FARE I will be voting for Vivek!!
I predict a myriad of threads here on it though. Nothing is going to happen until late August anyway.
Hindu.
Someone has to win, and some has to lose. It’s a primary.
I think I know what the asterisks mean after the word Rat.
It’s an expression I haven’t heard used much since my Navy days.
It rhymes with Luck.
I am a conservative who is not a fan of the former president. I will not vote for Trump.
Isn’t this guy Indian and thus ineligible?
Tired of all this trashing the rules when it suits you.
LOL!
Whenever I catch myself saying there's no way in hell that this guy has any chance, I have to remind myself that I once said the same exact thing about a certain junior senator from Illinois named Hussein.
Oh iirc there was a Nixon operative that used the term. His name was scarghetti or something like that. Dirty trickster on the level with trumps other friend.
I will vote for him, but not as a primary. Tired of it all, including his sycophants.
I am a conservative who is not a fan of the former president. I will not vote for Trump.
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I’m a conservative who doesn’t like DeSantis & will never vote for him.
He is Indian like Trump is Scottish.
He was born in the USA………eligible .
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So did we all ! I remember when Hussein was outed as a "Hussein", the media sycophants immediately went into attack mode, almost as if they were prepared for such a thing to happen. ANYone who uttered his unspeakable middle name was labeled a racist and a bigot trying to stoke the flames of bigotry. ! Even McCain himself forbade his campaign from using it.
CNN delivered “horrible news” for President Biden as the network’s latest polling offered a grim forecast ahead of his 2024 reelection bid.
The poll released Thursday show a whopping 66% of Americans view a Biden victory in the upcoming presidential election as either a “disaster” or a “setback” for the United States.
“Horrible news, horrible for Joe Biden,” CNN anchor Jake Tapper reacted to the poll.
“Those are some bad numbers,” he later added.
FOX NEWS POLL: MORE THAN HALF OF VOTERS THINK TRUMP IS A STRONG LEADER, BIDEN ISN’T
Some Freepers say that both of your parents have to have been American citizens at the time of your birth, for you to be a natural born citizen.
Other Freepers say that as long as you were born in America, you are a natural born citizen.
This debate regarding natural born citizenship is an ongoing debate.
I don’t know the immigration status of Vivek’s parents. I know he was born in America.
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