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WATCH: Vivek Announces ’10 Commandments’ Of Presidential Campaign At Iowa Stop
Vivek Ramaswamy, the ambitious Republican presidential candidate who has stunned prognosticators with his rise in the polls, released a list of the “10 Commandments” for his political campaign on Thursday, with the majority targeting cultural issues that have garnered outsized attention in the primary election season.
Speaking at the Iowa Political Soapbox event, the biotech businessman started off his remarks by reminding Republicans of how much in common the GOP candidates have and why any one of them would do better than President Biden.
“I’m going to depend on each of them, just as I’m going to depend on each of you, to revive this country,” said Ramaswamy. “But we do face a choice in this primary, and the choice is this: do you want incremental reform or do you want revolution? I stand on the side of revolution. I stand on the side of the American Revolution that we the people create a government that is accountable to us, not the other way around.”
As he has surpassed Florida Governor Ron DeSantis in the polls behind frontrunner President Donald Trump, Ramaswamy has been at ease in the spotlight, riffing on familiar themes about demanding truth from the government around the origins of the Covid-19 virus and the handling of Hunter Biden’s laptop.
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“We stand for the truth. I speak that truth without apology,” said the dark horse candidate, who went on to list his belief in God, two genders, and the two-parent family, among other red-meat topics for the supportive audience standing beneath him.
Perhaps the youngest-ever presidential candidate, Ramaswamy has mastered the art of speaking to a largely white, Christian base of GOP supporters in early-voting states like Iowa, where his Hindu faith sets him apart in a field that is largely comprised of Christian alternatives. That religious difference hasn’t stopped him from connecting with voters of faith who feel progressives have forced radical LGBTQ beliefs like gender transition surgery for minors upon the American public.
Ramaswamy will join Governor DeSantis and other Republicans for the first GOP debate of the season, where President Trump is still toying with skipping the event in favor of holding his own counter-programming, possibly with Tucker Carlson.