New: Vivek Ramaswamy staffers have begun looking for work elsewhere. He won't be on the ballot for the Illinois GOP primary. And he didn't qualify for tomorrow's final televised debate before the Iowa caucuses. https://t.co/X0L7FjRQ1V
— Sophia Cai (@SophiaCai99) January 9, 2024
It’s a crazy idea, but it just might work… Cynics have suspected this was Ramaswamy’s end goal all along, but now it’s official — he’s running, frantically, for TFG’s vice-presidential appointment. Per CNN, “Ramaswamy urges Supreme Court to overturn Colorado ruling removing Trump from ballot” :
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is urging the US Supreme Court to overturn the Colorado Supreme Court ruling barring Donald Trump from the state’s ballot.
Ramaswamy, who has previously denounced the Colorado court ruling, told the justices in a friend-of-the-court brief filed Thursday that he disagreed with the state court’s finding that the Constitution’s so-called insurrectionist ban applies to the presidency.
But he also stressed that if the justices in Washington, DC, leave the Colorado ruling intact, the consequences “will extend far beyond the dispute over President Trump’s eligibility,” potentially incentivizing voters and decisionmakers in states to find ways to kick candidates off the ballot for their own personal and professional benefit…
He’s pulling out Nixon’s 1952 vice-presidential playbook: Attempting to position himself as the second-in-command choice most popular with the GOP’s rabid right wing. (Whether VR, like RMN, is also ratf*cking horsetrading behind the scenes is something we can’t yet know)…
America First! (of dank historical record):
.@VivekGRamaswamy takes stage in Cedar Rapids alongside former Iowa US Rep. Steve King & Candace Owens. Vivek quips: “I'm not sure what the media is going to write here. Is it going to be the brown face of white supremacy?” Says King “was America First” before it was a thing. pic.twitter.com/ioZSCduxq3
— Tom Barton (@tjbarton83) January 11, 2024
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