Vivek Ramaswamy Announces 2024 Presidential Bid

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Vivek Ramaswamy, biotechnology entrepreneur and author of โ€œWoke, Inc.: Inside Corporate Americaโ€™s Social Justice Scam,โ€ threw his hat in the ring on Tuesday for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

Filings with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) indicate that Ramaswamy, 37, is registering as a Republican candidate. As a political newcomer, he joins the GOP race with former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.

โ€œWeโ€™re in the midst of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism, hard work, and family are on the decline,โ€ Ramaswamy wrote in a statement provided to The Epoch Times, after announcing his presidential bid.

โ€œClimateism, wokeism, and gender ideology have taken their place. We need to fill that identity vacuum with a vision of American national identity that dilutes the woke agenda to irrelevance.โ€

He describes the Chinese regime as the โ€œgreatest external threatโ€ America faces.

โ€œDeclaring independence from China wonโ€™t be easy, but we can do it if we rediscover who we really are,โ€ he said in the statement. In a statement posted Wednesday morning on Twitter, Ramaswamy added that America needs to โ€œban most U.S. companies from doing business in China until the CCP falls or radically reforms.โ€

โ€œIf we defeat them economically now, we avoid having to do so militarily later. This involves real sacrifice, but we can rise to the occasion,โ€ he said.

In a statement posted on Twitter soon after his bid announcement, Ramaswamy wrote that his first move as U.S. president would be to repeal a Johnson-era mandate requiring affirmative action for federal contractors.

โ€œAs U.S. President, I will end federally mandated affirmative actionโ€”full stop. I will repeal Lyndon Johnsonโ€™s Executive Order 11246 which mandates race-based quotas. Every Republican since Johnson had the opportunity to do it. Iโ€™ll do it on Day 1 without apology,โ€ he wrote.

Additionally, Ramaswamy says he is committed to exposing government documents of state influence in private enterprises, or what he calls the โ€œstate action files,โ€ if elected.

โ€œJust as [Twitter CEO Elon Musk] did at Twitter, as President I will release the โ€˜state action filesโ€™ from the federal governmentโ€”exposing every instance where the feds pressured companies to take constitutionally prohibited actions. Roll that log over & see what crawls out,โ€ Ramaswamy wrote. โ€œWonโ€™t be pretty.โ€

In another post, he gave a glimpse into other areas he would be tackling as president.

โ€œI challenge every GOP candidate to join me in making some easy commitments: end affirmative action; abandon climate religion; total decoupling from China; 8-year limits for all federal bureaucrats; say NO to central bank digital currencies; release the โ€˜state actionโ€™ files,โ€ Ramaswamy wrote in bullet points.

โ€œThereโ€™s a lot else we can disagree on. But if you canโ€™t make these basic commitments, you shouldnโ€™t be a serious GOP contender,โ€ he added.

Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, graduated from Harvard University with a biology degree and later obtained a juris doctor degree at Yale Law School. Until his Tuesday announcement, he served as the executive chairman of Strive Asset Management, a company focused on promoting โ€œexcellence capitalism and depoliticizing corporate America.โ€ Before heading Strive, he founded and led biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences.

By Gary Bai

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