Throughout his Presidential campaign, the only thing that the voluble and supremely self-assured Indian-American candidate Vivek Ramaswamy did not do was to take on his Republican rival, former President Donald Trump, head-on. Instead, he waxed eloquent about the twice-impeached Trump, facing more than 90 criminal charges, calling him the “greatest President” of the 21st century, pledging to pardon him if elected as the POTUS.
Endorsing the GOP frontrunner after dropping out of the White House bid earlier this week, Ramaswamy has played the ‘Trump card’ well by saying time and again that he is in step with the former president’s approach to what ails the United States.
While one wonders whether he was running against Trump at all, Ramaswamy had said after his campaign announcement that he is “taking the Trump America first agenda to the next level to actually get the job done”.