{"id":1870118,"date":"2023-03-07T08:58:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T13:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-claims-he-was-offered-to-buy-second-place-finish-in-cpac-straw-poll\/"},"modified":"2023-03-07T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:23:13","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-claims-he-was-offered-to-buy-second-place-finish-in-cpac-straw-poll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-claims-he-was-offered-to-buy-second-place-finish-in-cpac-straw-poll\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy claims he was offered to buy second-place finish in CPAC straw poll"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvivek-ramaswamy-claims-he-was-offered-to-buy-second-place-finish-in-cpac-straw-poll%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1870118&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span class=\"ArticlePage-articleBody-firstLetter\">E<\/span>Ntrepreneur and 2024 Presidential Candidat <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/vivek-ramaswamy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vivek Ramaswamy<\/a> According to him, he was offered second place in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/cpac\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservative Political Action Conference<\/a>&#8216;s straw poll \u2014 but only if he paid up.<\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body\">\n<p>Ramaswamy&#8217;s senior campaign officer <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/03\/06\/ramaswamy-offer-buy-into-cpac-straw-poll-00085757?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=95d6868d-d357-4031-b5e7-91aec88a3bbe&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> <i>Politico<\/i> This offer, which was worth more than $100,000, included bus transportation and tickets to enable voters in straw polls to vote for presidential candidate. Ramaswamy was first to talk about CPAC&#8217;s offer in an interview for Fox Business Network. <i>Varney &#038; Co.<\/i> Monday, he said it showed him &#8220;how corrupt this system is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/vivek-ramaswamy-counters-national-divorce-suggests-revival\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CPAC 2023: VIVEK RAMASWAMY COUNTERS MTG ON NATIONAL DIVORCE, SUGGESTS &#8216;REVIVAL&#8217;<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<div class=\"Enhancement\">\n<div class=\"Enhancement-item\">\n<div class=\"TweetEmbed\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It is shocking to witness how corrupt the process really is. This is my #1 Promise for the year. I will expose corruption. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yOxLVw1OP1\">pic.twitter.com\/yOxLVw1OP1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VivekGRamaswamy\/status\/1632779490219663362?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Do you know what is funny about this? I attended CPAC before. I didn&#8217;t know it works this way. A consultant calls my campaign shortly after we declared and said, &#8216;We can get you up to No. 2 on there if you pay a few hundred thousand dollars.&#8217; I was shocked,&#8221; Ramaswamy spoke. &#8220;There are a lot of people making money, not only off of me but off of every presidential campaign.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>If he were asked whether he paid for the move to higher standings, he replied that he had not. &#8220;that is fake. So why would I want to?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy was the winner with 1% <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/cpac-2023-trump-wins-straw-poll-desantis-loses-support\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">straw poll<\/a>As former President <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> Governor was next with 62%. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ron-desantis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ron DeSantis<\/a> (R\u2013FL) With 20%<\/p>\n<p>It was a conservative conference. <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/politics\/cpac-2023-conservative-conference-suffers-from-low-attendance-and-lack-of-sponsors\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hurt by<\/a> It was a low-attendance event with few sponsors. Despite it being back to the Was<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Click Here to Read More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/ramaswamy-claims-cpac-consultant-offered-second-place-straw-poll-price\">Vivek Ramaswamy claims he was offered to buy second-place finish in CPAC straw poll<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11px;\"><em>&#8220;The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author of the article and not necessarily shared or endorsed by Conservative News Daily&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENtrepreneur and 2024 Presidential Candidat Vivek Ramaswamy According to him, he was offered second place in the Conservative Political Action Conference&#8216;s straw poll \u2014 but only if he paid up. Ramaswamy&#8217;s senior campaign officer told Politico This offer, which was worth more than $100,000, included bus transportation and tickets to enable voters in straw polls &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1896628,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Vivek Ramaswamy claims he was offered to buy second-place finish in CPAC straw poll","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[4856,19858,9441,17734,3921,18538,20817,5059,18539],"class_list":["post-1870118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-claims","tag-cpac","tag-finish","tag-offered","tag-poll","tag-ramaswamy","tag-second-place","tag-straw","tag-vivek"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Vivek Ramaswamy claims he was offered to buy second-place finish in CPAC straw poll","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1870118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1870118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1896628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1870118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1870118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1870118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}