Ohio biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is basing his long-shot Republican campaign for president in 2024 on persuading even hard-core supporters of Donald Trump that he can take the former president’s “America First” agenda “to the next level.”
Ramaswamy, a leading crusader against investing based on environmental, social and governance principles, said his proposals, such as ending affirmative action, go further than Trump’s but avoid a national divorce between Democrats and Republicans such as U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia has proposed.
“It’s not a critique of what he didn’t do, but it’s the question of who’s going to be best positioned to take this to the next level,” Ramaswamy said of Trump in an interview after speaking on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington. “I think voters are very receptive to that pitch.”
