Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy may be facing steep odds of winning the White House but he’s already planning to enlist the help of America’s most influential people if he does, including Elon Musk.
The 38-year-old political newcomer who has impressed voters with his fresh ideas and willingness to tell it like it is said that if he does emerge from the bruising GOP primaries and goes on to win the presidency, he will seek out the billionaire Tesla/SpaceX CEO as an adviser.
In a response to a question at a Friday town hall, the candidate said that he wants to bring in people who have “a blank fresh impression” and that the Twitter/X owner is high on his list of those whose advice he plans to seek, according to NBC News.
“I’ve enjoyed getting to know better, Elon Musk recently, I expect him to be an interesting adviser of mine because he laid off 75% of the employees at Twitter,” Ramaswamy said, clearly impressed with the job that Musk did when he cleaned house at the San Francisco-based tech giant, cutting thousands of employees while putting his stamp on the company he recently renamed as X.
Ramaswamy, who didn’t become a multimillionaire due to his lack of business acumen, realizes that there will need to be massive cuts made to a bloated federal government that has grown so large that it’s practically its own nation, and he previously expressed his admiration for Musk’s successful recipe.
Ramaswamy says he would take inspiration from Elon Musk if elected: ‘I’ll release the state action files’ https://t.co/zmkbHy6Hzh pic.twitter.com/eAVPf9qOhv
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“Look, I think Elon is an excellent example of — what he did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state,” Ramaswamy told Fox News host Laura Ingraham last week.
“Take out 75 percent of the dead weight cost, improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do. And at the same time,” he added. “I love the way he released the ‘Twitter Files.’ I’ll release the ‘State Action Files.’”
Musk recently referred to the man dubbed as the “CEO of Anti-Woke Inc.” as “a very promising candidate” while sharing Ramaswamy’s interview with Tucker Carlson.
He is a very promising candidate https://t.co/bEQU8L21nd
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 17, 2023
The candidate told NBC News that aside from his Twitter Spaces appearance, he has mostly communicated with the Twitter/X owner through interactions on social media.
Ramaswamy came away from the first presidential primary debate as one of the big winners, at least judging by the reaction from his fellow GOP hopefuls and the media who haven’t seen anything quite like him and his brutally frank answers that, unlike the political pros, aren’t driven by the results of focus groups and advisers.
He previously said that he plans on also seeking the advice and mentoring of former President Donald J. Trump if he goes on to win next year’s election.
Ramaswamy says he wants Trump to mentor him in the White House, spill where bodies are buried https://t.co/wV9jcLJKX0 pic.twitter.com/kp1uYwSVqU
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“I respect President Trump, I don’t bash him because I think he was an excellent president and we have a good relationship of mutual respect. I expect him to be an adviser, even a sort of mentor when I’m in the White House, teaching me where the bodies are buried, how to go further than he went. That’s my mission with our America First agenda and that’s the relationship that I expect,” Ramaswamy told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News earlier this month.
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