In an interview, the 37-year-old GOP nominee also said Pete Buttigieg was ‘Diet Coke to my Coca-Cola.’
2024 Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks with POLITICO journalists at POLITICO's offices in Arlington, Va. on June 5, 2023. | Francis Chung/POLITICOThe general consensus for the non-Donald Trump members of the 2024 GOP primary and even much of the Republican Party writ large is that the ex-president simply can not win the general election should he end up as the nominee.
Sipping an orange Gatorade and describing the current state of affairs as a “1776 moment,” in which the country must decide if it wants to “revive the ideals of the American Revolution,” the 37-year-old biotech entrepreneur framed his candidacy as a galvanizing movement for the country.
The damage Ramaswamy has tried to inflict on DeSantis hasn’t just been rhetorical. Earlier in the day, Iowa state Sen. Scott Webster told POLITICO he was switching his endorsement from the Florida governor to Ramaswamy. Describing Ramaswamy as “the future of the Republican Party,” and suggesting that the party “get to our future now,” Webster cited DeSantis’ heavy-handed attacks on Disney and Ramaswamy’s extensive outreach to him as reasons he changed his mind.
“I think Pete is a little too diet … he is maybe the diet version of what I’m doing,” Ramaswamy said. “He’s like the Diet Coke to my Coca-Cola.”, repeatedly attacked the prevalence and power of donor culture in politics. He accused Buttigieg and DeSantis of being “propped up” by billionaires. He called the Republican National Committee’s 40,000-donor requirement for the debate stage a breeze to reach — knocking rivals who didn’t have the grassroots money infrastructure to hit that threshold.
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