Just over two years after Donald Trump helicoptered away from the White House rather than greet Joe Biden and accompany him to his inauguration, one of the three Republicans who hope Mr Biden will greet them on the White House steps in January 2025 was making his case to a group of GOP activists in a hotel room not far from Washington.
The candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, made his way through the throngs of college-aged Conservative Political Action Conference attendees who’d been drawn to the 18th floor hotel suite with promises of free food and drink. After the crowd had been sufficiently quieted, the former biotechnology entrepreneur turned anti-woke pundit launched into a three-minute explanation of his theory of what the next year of the presidential campaign will be about.
