At a ritzy boutique hotel on Monday night in Des Moines, Iowa, dozens of young voters braved subzero temperatures to see Vivek Ramaswamy deliver what they would soon learn to be his final speech as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. After thanking his team, campaign volunteers, and, of course, everyone watching the livestream, … Read more
Presidential candidate Nikki Haley faced blowback earlier this week from both Republicans and Democrats on how she answered a question about the Civil War during a town hall event in New Hampshire. Fellow presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy answered the same question during a campaign event in Iowa on Thursday, prompting a different response online. When … Read more
For months, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has been dog-whistling to supporters of extremist far-right ideologies and wild conspiracy theories like QAnon. On Wednesday night, at the fourth Republican presidential debate, Ramaswamy went full tilt: After blasting the three other debaters for turning on former president Donald Trump, Ramaswamy argued, without evidence, that the January … Read more
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy holds up a sign reading Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy holds up a sign reading “Nikki = corrupt” referring to one of his rivals, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, at the GOP presidential debate Wednesday in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Businessman and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy took the opportunity to repeatedly remind his rival … Read more
In the spirit of the late Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing: Could Vivek Ramaswamy be any more condescending? (Watch the video below.) The Republican presidential candidate’s exchange with CNN’s Abby Phillip Wednesday over China and Taiwan devolved into a morass of mansplaining. Perhaps Ramaswamy was already annoyed by a CNN story earlier in the day pointing … Read more
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Sunday unveiled how he would slim down federal bureaucracy and critics had thoughts. Ramaswamy spelled out on X, formerly Twitter, that if he won the 2024 election he’d “instantly” fire 50% of federal bureaucrats on his first day in office. Who would find themselves terminated? Ramaswamy proposed using the … Read more
Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley slammed fellow 2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy after he brought up her daughter in Wednesday’s GOP primary debate. The tense exchange came amid debate over whether to ban the social media app TikTok, which FBI and other national security officials have warned could send personal data to China’s authoritarian … Read more
Play video content NBC News More fireworks between Vivek and Nikki … this after he attacked her family over their use of TikTok, which spurred her to tell him to keep her daughters’ names out of his mouth. Nikki Haley to Vivek: “You’re just scum.” pic.twitter.com/sRueuLjZxg — TheBlaze (@theblaze) November 9, 2023 @theblaze Will Smith’s … Read more
Conservative entrepreneur Vivek RamaswamyScott Olson/Getty Images Roche acquired a bowel-disease treatment from Roivant for over $7 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. Roivant made $5 billion from the sale, after having only spent $15 million on development. Pfizer originally passed it over to Roivant for free last December. Roche’s acquisition of a bowel-inflammation treatment delivered … Read more
2024 presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy said Thursday that he was the victim of an intentional attack by two protesters who he claimed had driven their vehicle into an unoccupied campaign car at a coffee shop in Iowa near where he was campaigning. But police there told a different story—saying their investigation turned up “no evidence … Read more