{"id":2004914,"date":"2023-08-18T13:43:05","date_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-denies-backing-bernie-sanders-covid-mask-bill-he-once-touted-as-sensible\/"},"modified":"2023-08-18T13:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T17:44:53","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-denies-backing-bernie-sanders-covid-mask-bill-he-once-touted-as-sensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-denies-backing-bernie-sanders-covid-mask-bill-he-once-touted-as-sensible\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy now denies supporting Bernie Sanders&#8217; COVID mask bill, despite previously calling it &#8216;sensible&#8217;."},"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\">30<\/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-denies-backing-bernie-sanders-covid-mask-bill-he-once-touted-as-sensible%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=2004914&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--><h2>Republican 2024 Presidential\u2064 Candidate Vivek Ramaswamy Allegedly Backtracks on Support for Bernie \u200cSanders&#8217; COVID-19 Masking Proposal<\/h2>\n<p>Republican 2024 \u2064presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy recently alleged \u200bhe \u200dnever\u2064 supported \u200da Sen. Bernie Sanders-led COVID-19 proposal on masking despite praising it at the time \u2064as\u2062 &#8220;sensible,&#8221; records show.<\/p>\n<p>In an Aug. 1 recorded \u2064spaces conversation \u200don X, formerly known\u2062 as Twitter, Ramaswamy\u200c said\u200c around the 20-minute\u2063 mark, &#8220;No,&#8221; when asked by commentator Josie Glabach if the wealthy \u2064businessman &#8220;ever \u200bsupported &#8216;Masks for \u2062All&#8217; \u2064legislation by Bernie\u2063 Sanders.&#8221; However, the claim falls in contrast to\u2062 a tweet by\u2063 the GOP White House\u2064 hopeful in\u200b July 2020 in \u200bwhich \u2063he replied to ex-Obama official Andy Slavitt, who co-authored a CNN op-ed with the senator calling for &#8220;masks for every American.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>UP \u200bFOR DEBATE: WHERE TRUMP, DESANTIS,\u200d AND REST OF REPUBLICAN 2024 FIELD STAND \u200bON\u2064 BIG TECH<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;My policy views don&#8217;t often\u200d align \u200cwith Bernie, but this strikes me as a sensible\u2064 idea,&#8221; Ramaswamy said in 2020 in response to Slavitt, who would \u2064go on to become \u2063President Joe Biden&#8217;s senior COVID-19 adviser, sharing the article on social\u200c media. &#8220;The cost is a tiny fraction of other less compelling federal\u200d expenditures \u2064on COVID-19.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They should have picked\u200b someone from \u2064the political right \u200bas a co-author to\u200d show consensus,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s\u2062 the latest example \u200cof\u200b Ramaswamy backtracking on prior claims on the presidential\u200d campaign trail, with the Washington Examiner reporting \u200bin late July on his admission \u200cthat \u200dhe actually voted for the first time in the 2004 election rather \u200dthan in 2020. Ramaswamy alleged soon after, &#8220;This \u200dis the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-denies-backing-bernie-sanders-covid-mask-bill-he-once-touted-as-sensible\/\" title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy now denies supporting Bernie Sanders' COVID mask bill, despite previously calling it 'sensible'.\">false &#038; intentionally deceitful headline<\/a> of the \u200ccampaign so far,&#8221; even though he had said prior over the phone with the\u2063 Washington Examiner when it brought\u200b the voting discrepancy to \u2063his attention, &#8220;I appreciate you \u2063smoking that out for me, that was actually useful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the CNN op-ed, Sanders\u2064 and Slavitt laid out an argument for why the public should\u2064 be entitled to receive \u2063free masks for COVID-19 mitigation efforts. On July 28, 2020, the Vermont senator introduced the Masks for All Act of \u200d2020, which didn&#8217;t pass and would have \u200ballotted funding \u200dfor the Federal Emergency \u200dManagement Agency &#8220;to provide for the manufacture and distribution of high-quality\u2064 face masks for every individual in the United States during the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) emergency,&#8221; according to the bill&#8217;s text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the\u2062 United States reports record numbers of\u200b new cases, research about mask-wearing from around the world and here in the\u200c United States shows that masks \u2062play a vital role in decreasing the spread of COVID-19, because when the virus can&#8217;t easily find hosts, it dies out,&#8221;\u2063 Sanders and Slavitt argued in the article, which noted, &#8220;President Donald Trump\u200b has recklessly made \u200cmasks a \u2062political football.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/almost-certainly-illegal-washington-post-editorial-board-slams-biden-eviction-moratorium\/\" title=\"\u2018Almost Certainly Illegal\u2019: Washington Post Editorial Board Slams Biden Eviction Moratorium\">op-ed continued<\/a>,\u2064 &#8220;We must act with urgency, using the next package \u200dof \u2062COVID-19 relief coming up this\u200d month and take immediate advantage of the Defense Production Act. Every day we delay, we make it that much harder to find the raw material and manufacturing\u2064 capacity to make the masks we need. \u200cThe \u2064cost is a very modest investment compared to the\u200c number of lives saved\u2062 and the positive impact on the economy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to a RealClearPolitics polling average for the 2024 primary, Ramaswamy has 6.9% support, while Trump has 54.7%, and Gov.\u2064 Ron DeSantis (R-FL) sits \u200cat 14.8%. Ex-Vice President Mike Pence is clocking in at 5.4%, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley\u2062 is at 3.6%, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) is at 2.8%, according to the average.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy has often clashed with the press over their coverage of him, with the candidate declaring that an Aug. \u206314 Fox News story was &#8220;planted trash&#8221; after it quoted him recently saying, &#8220;I&#8217;m eyes wide open and willing to be bold in crossing boundaries we haven&#8217;t yet crossed to address the demand side of this as well,&#8221; referring to drug decriminalization.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy&#8217;s \u2062campaign later told the Washington Examiner, &#8220;Vivek \u200dsupports the decriminalization of ayahuasca,\u200b and ketamine, and certain psychedelics as\u2064 a treatment for veterans suffering\u200c from PTSD,\u2062 to prevent\u2063 the devastating epidemic of fentanyl and suicide.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK\u2063 HERE\u200c TO READ \u2062MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Sanders and Senate Democrats reintroduced the Masks for All measure in January 2022, with the Vermont senator noting, &#8220;It is an absolute scandal that in the richest \u2062country in the history of the world, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-highly-effective-covid-treatment-joe-biden-wont-tell-you-about\/\" title=\"The Highly Effective Covid Treatment Joe Biden Won\u2019t Tell You About\u00a0\">high-quality masks<\/a> are not more readily available to frontline workers, health care workers, and\u200d all Americans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063Ramaswamy campaign did not return\u200c a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican 2024 candidate Vivek Ramaswamy denied supporting Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; COVID-19 mask proposal, contradicting previous praise for its sensibility. During an Aug. 1 conversation on X, Ramaswamy responded negatively when asked about his support for the proposal by commentator Josie Glabach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2004915,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2004914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004914","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=2004914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2004914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2004915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2004914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2004914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2004914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}