DURHAM, N.H. – EXCLUSIVE: Multi-millionaire entrepreneur and Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says he’s already poured eight figures of his personal cash into his 2024 marketing campaign and emphasizes that there’s “no restrict” to what he’ll proceed to take a position into his White Home run.
Ramaswamy, a well being care and tech sector entrepreneur, best-selling creator, conservative commentator, and crusader within the tradition wars who declared his candidacy for president in February, is price roughly $600 million, based on Forbes. And Ramaswamy hasn’t disputed previous estimates that he has a web price of half a billion {dollars}.
“There’s actually no restrict to what we’ll put into this marketing campaign,” Ramaswamy mentioned in a Fox Information Digital unique nationwide interview following a marketing campaign occasion on the College of New Hampshire in Durham.
The 37-year-old first-time candidate famous that “we’ve already made an eight-figure funding on this marketing campaign. Mix that with practically 30,000 distinctive donors in simply the primary 10 weeks… There’s going to must be a grassroots motion that lifts this up however, given the household sacrifice that we’re already making, there’s no restrict to the monetary sacrifice that we’ll make as properly.”
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks with voters in Keene, New Hampshire, on Might 3, 2023. (Vivek Ramaswamy marketing campaign)
Pointing to the $500 million that multi-billionaire enterprise and media mogul Mike Bloomberg spent in simply 4 months in his unsuccessful marketing campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, Ramaswamy mentioned, “I do assume that Michael Bloomberg proved it – you possibly can’t purchase elections on this nation, which I believe is an efficient factor. The individuals of this nation are too good for that.”
However he mentioned that his wealth “goes to be one thing that enables us to compete. I don’t have years of political lists and marketing campaign bases to attract from or current donors – massive donors who’re viewing me as their form of man. That’s the half that we’re skipping by truly having unbiased, self-created wealth and admittedly that really offers me some latitude a lot of these skilled politicians don’t have as a result of these donors – particularly megadonors – have expectations. I don’t dance to anyone else’s tune, however to voters who we truly serve.”
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Ramaswamy, who’s emphasizing his outsider credentials as he faces a steep uphill climb to win the nomination, has seen his ballot numbers tick up from zero to the mid-single digits in some surveys.
“I believe it’s going to be a gentle climb,” he mentioned.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks to visitors on the Religion and Freedom Coalition Spring Kick-Off on April 22, 2023, in Clive, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Photos)
Waiting for the primary GOP presidential main debate, which Fox Information will host in August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ramaswamy mentioned, “The primary massive catalyst is the talk stage… I believe that’s one thing that’s going to be an actual catalyst that adjustments up this race. I’m not going to play with child gloves. I’m going to take the gloves off.”
Former President Donald Trump, who launched his third straight White Home marketing campaign in November and is presently the overwhelming front-runner within the GOP nomination race, has advised he’ll skip the primary couple main debates.
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“I totally anticipate to see Donald Trump on that debate stage. It’s my expectation that Trump can be there as a result of as I’ve identified him, he’s not a person that I do know of to be afraid. He’s not someone who’s made a behavior of himself to be a coward,” Ramaswamy mentioned.
However taking a swipe on the former president, he added that if Trump “doesn’t present up on that debate stage I believe that would be the greatest proof that the Donald Trump of at this time will not be the identical Donald Trump as in 2015. As a result of that man was unafraid, an outsider, confirmed properly on the talk stage. Didn’t disguise from a debate.”
Former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign rally on April 27, 2023, in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Spencer Platt/Getty Photos)
And he touted that if Trump “doesn’t present up on that debate stage, I believe that would be the greatest proof that I’m the brand new outsider on this race.”
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Ramaswamy, who’s been busy holding city halls and assembly with voters in Iowa and New Hampshire – the lead-off states within the GOP presidential nominating calendar – added that “the following catalyst is frankly the early states: Iowa and New Hampshire.”
He optimistically predicted, “We plan to do very well in New Hampshire. We’re spending quite a lot of time right here and I believe that may actually be the catalyst that places us into the very high of this race.”
