Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American businessman, has announced his run for president in 2024

Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, an Indian-American, declares his intention to run for president in 2024 on Tucker Carlson’s prime-time programme on Fox News

The statement was made by 37-year-old Vivek Ramaswamy, whose parents immigrated to the United States from Kerala and who worked at a General Electric facility in Ohio, during a live interview with conservative political pundit Tucker Carlson on Fox News’ prime time programme.

The second member of the community, following Nikki Haley, to enter the Republican Party’s presidential primary is Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. He has pledged to “bring merit back” and break America’s dependency on China.Vivek Ramaswamy, 37, who immigrated to the United States from Kerala and whose parents worked at a General Electric facility in Ohio, declared his candidature for president during a live interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News’s prime time programme.

He is the second Indian-American to run for president in the Republican party.

Haley, a two-term former governor of South Carolina and a former US ambassador to the UN, declared her candidature for president earlier this month. She said that she will compete for the Republican Party candidature against Donald Trump, her former employer and the former president of the United States.We have been celebrating our differences for so long that we have forgotten how similar we are as Americans, connected by a shared set of ideals that launched this nation 250 years ago, according to Vivek Ramaswamy.

He labels “wokeism” a menace to the country.

Promoting liberal progressive philosophy and policies in response to societal injustices and biases is known as “wooeism.”To resurrect those principles in this nation, I am delighted to declare today that I am running for president of the United States,” he said.He said that he will stop affirmative action in “every aspect of American life,” saying, “I think we need to put’merit’ back into ‘America’ in every spirit of our lives.

Vivek Ramaswamy, a second-generation Indian-American, created Roivant Sciences in 2014 and oversaw the biggest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016. His efforts finally paid off with the FDA-approval of medications resulting from successful clinical studies in a number of illness categoriesHe has developed several prosperous healthcare and technology businesses, and in 2022 he established Strive Asset Management, a brand-new company that aims to give regular Americans a stronger voice in the American economy by working with powerful corporations.

“I’m all for putting America first, but we have to relearn what America is first in order to do that. And in my opinion, they are the fundamental laws of the land that propelled this country towards meritocracy, freedom of expression, and self-governance over aristocracy.Instead of this malignant federal bureaucracy running the country, the people we elect really do it. The focus of my speech will be that, Vivek Ramaswamy told Fox News.

The emergence of China, he claimed, is one of the foreign risks facing the US.

“It has to be our top foreign policy danger that we have to respond to, not useless conflicts elsewhere,” the president said.”It will involve some giving up. It will need to declare its independence from China and fully decouple. And that won’t be simple. There may be some inconvenience involved,” he stated.

Vivek Ramaswamy claimed that setting priorities is fundamental to foreign policy.

We need to realise that China is infringing on our sovereignty because, if it had been a Russian spy balloon, we would have shot it down right away and stepped up our penalties. He questioned, “Why didn’t we do it for China.”The solution is easy. They are essential to our contemporary way of life. This co-dependent economic connection must stop, he said.

Jaime Harrison, chair of the Democratic National Committee, said in a statement that Vivek Ramaswamy’s use of Tucker Carlson’s programme to announce his presidential bid made one thing very clear: the contest for the Make America Great Again (MAGA) base is becoming more tangled and congested by the hour.

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Republicans will undoubtedly adopt extremely extreme stances over the coming months on issues ranging from outlawing abortion to slashing Social Security and Medicare, Harrison warned. “We look forward to continue to make sure every American knows exactly how radical the MAGA agenda is,” he said.

Vivek Ramaswamy and Haley must prevail in the Republican Party’s presidential primary, which will begin in January of the following year, in order to be included on the ballot for president. On November 5, 2024, the next US presidential election is slated to take place.

The fourth Indian-American to seek the presidency is Vivek Ramaswamy.

Both Bobby Jindal and Kamala Harris, the vice president, ran for office in 2016.