Posted on 01/13/2024 5:31:20 PM PST by Miami Rebel
Former President Trump and his campaign are changing their tune about fellow GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, now calling him a “fraud” and claiming that a vote for the biotech entrepreneur will help the “other side.”
Trump wrote to his supporters in a TruthSocial post on Saturday that they should not support Ramaswamy because he is “not MAGA” and claimed he disguises his support for the former president “in the form of deceitful campaign tricks.”
Ramaswamy, who till now has slipped away from attacks stemming from Trump and his campaign, has repeatedly defended the former president throughout his 2024 presidential run. He has even criticized other 2024 GOP opponents for insufficiently supporting Trump.
After Colorado’s Supreme Court barred Trump from the ballot under the 14th Amendment, Ramaswamy pledged to remove himself from the ballot and asked other Republican contenders to do the same thing.
He has offered repeated praise of the former president, even saying that he would pardon Trump if he wins the general election.
Trump declared Ramaswamy the winner of the fourth GOP debate that took place in Alabama in early December, saying that “Vivek WINS because he thinks l’m great.”
Ramaswamy doubled down on his support for Trump in Saturday comments.
“I respect the hell out of Trump. He’s the best President of the 21st century. I’ve defended him at every step against the unjust persecutions,” he told The Hill.
“But OPEN YOUR EYES to the hard TRUTH: this system will stop at nothing to keep this man away from the White House. Just because it’s wrong doesn’t mean it won’t happen & we owe it to our nation to take America-First forward.”
Ramaswamy has amassed around 7.6 percent of support in Iowa, far below Trump’s 53.6 percent according to The Hill/Decision-Desk HQ average of polls. Trump’s late-game attack on Ramaswamy comes hours before the release of the new Des Moines Register/NBC News/Mediacom Iowa Poll, the last one before the Iowa Caucuses kick off on Jan. 15.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s campaign for comment.
Updated at 7:10pm.
“born in the US to parents legally within the US when he was born.”
Parents may have been here legally, but they weren’t citizens. Their/his loyalty cannot be trusted. Well, maybe their loyalty TO INDIA can be trusted, but not to the USA. Ditto for Nimrata.
” pointing out the fact that she’s (Haley) not a conservative.”
Or natural born citizen. Or has a clue about American History.
Of course not.
But we already knew that because for the all the f=efforts the left has made to dig up dirt on him to smear him or charge him with something, anything, they have come up empty and are resorting to invented crimes.
If they had ANYTHING, they would have used it long ago.
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