Former presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy issued a warning this week about the “harsh realities” of the 2024 presidential race.
In a tweet published Thursday, he urged Republicans to “wake up to some hard realities, fast,” lest they inadvertently cost themselves the 2024 presidential race.
For example, he called out Republicans for calling on President Joe Biden to resign from his post or be forced out.
“That will just give Kamala all the benefits of running as an incumbent U.S. President,” he wrote, referencing Vice President Kamala Harris. “And she won’t be any better for America in the next 5 months than Biden will be.”
Time for our side to wake up to some hard realities, fast:
1. Stop calling on Biden to step down or to be forced out. That will just give Kamala all the benefits of running as an incumbent U.S. President. And she won’t be any better for America in the next 5 months than Biden…
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) July 26, 2024
Speaking later with Fox News, he expounded further on this hard reality.
“Kamala Harris is unproven as a political leader, let alone as the U.S. president,” he said. “Why put her in a position as the U.S. president with all the benefits of incumbency? Oval Office addresses, God forbid, to even change policy or foreign policy, to be able to create circumstances that make her look better. That’s one of the advantages that many incumbent presidents, the sad truth is, have used throughout American history.”
Ramaswamy added that Republicans calling for the president to step down is a perfect “example” of Republicans being “reactive,” which, he argued, ends up “hurting our chances rather than helping us.”
“It’s not going to be good for America and it’s not going to be good for Republican electoral prospects if Kamala Harris is the President of the United States of America for even a short period of time, for even a minute,” he said. “I don’t think that’s something we should want, and it doesn’t make sense and that’s why I called it out.”
Continuing his tweet, Ramaswamy then aimed fire at the Republicans who’ve been attacking Harris, who’s now running in place of Biden, “for locking up too many people as a prosecutor.”
“It lends credibility to the otherwise ridiculous claim that she’s a ‘law-and-order’ candidate,” he wrote — which, he later told Fox News, she certainly isn’t.
“[The] policies that she has supported [include] clear the jails, defund the police,” he said. “That’s resulted in a wave of rampant crime in this country. People in the United States of America, across the aisle and both camps, are dead set against this wave of crime.”
Police officials around the nation warn Harris presidency would be an ‘unmitigated disaster’ https://t.co/2yoSKyGrRY
— BPR (@BIZPACReview) July 25, 2024
Ramaswamy’s tweet concluded with him urging Republicans to “[s]top saying that Kamala covered up Biden’s health decline to help Biden, while also saying that Kamala staged a coup to overthrow Biden.”
“It doesn’t make sense to many independent voters to say both of those things at the same time,” he told Fox News. “They’re self-contradictory. And if we say things that don’t make sense, we’re more likely to lose votes, which is the thing that I care most about.”
“So I come back to the basic point. That’s not how we’re going to win this election. We’re not going to win this election by picking at these nit-picking… ‘inside baseball’ political criticisms of Kamala. It doesn’t matter. The voters don’t care,” he added.
Speaking with Fox News, he stressed that Harris herself isn’t the “biggest risk” Republicans face this election cycle. Rather, it’s the “shenanigans on the Democratic side” that they should be worried about.
“The voters don’t love Kamala Harris on her own terms,” he said. “We know that because even when she was running in the Democratic primary, she didn’t even make it to the Iowa caucus.”
“I was an unknown 37-year-old businessman, ran for office for the first time as U.S. president last year. I have more delegates that have supported me for U.S. president than Kamala Harris ever has had. That’s because voters don’t find her compelling. So it’s not that Kamala Harris is our biggest risk,” he added.
And finally, he warned Republicans to not get complacent and underestimate Harris’ capability to win.
“You got to compete like you’re behind, or else you soon will be,” he said. “We’re not up against a candidate. It’s not Kamala. It’s not Joe. It’s not any other individual candidate.”
“We are up against a machine and the more we understand that, we have formidable opponents. Let’s take stock of some sobering realities. Republicans have lost devastating defeats relative to expectations in 2018, 2020, 2022,” he added.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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