{"id":2010441,"date":"2023-08-24T06:17:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-gop-field-piles-on-ramaswamy-who-makes-splash-in-stage-debut\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T06:22:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T10:22:01","slug":"republican-debate-gop-field-piles-on-ramaswamy-who-makes-splash-in-stage-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-gop-field-piles-on-ramaswamy-who-makes-splash-in-stage-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican debate: GOP targets Ramaswamy in impressive stage debut."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/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%2Frepublican-debate-gop-field-piles-on-ramaswamy-who-makes-splash-in-stage-debut%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=2010441&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>A Rising Star Emerges: Vivek Ramaswamy Shines in\u2062 Republican Primary\u2062 Debate<\/h2>\n<p>Ahead of \u200cWednesday night\u2019s first Republican primary debate, 38-year-old\u200b biotechnology entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was relatively unknown, but that likely has changed.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy, the candidate with no experience in elected\u200b office, stood center stage\u200b during the debate and was repeatedly at the center of\u2062 the scrum, trading the most barbs with other candidates, regularly interrupting the moderators,\u200c and inserting himself into the conversation. He had the second most speaking time at 11 minutes \u200cand 47 seconds, just beneath\u200b former Vice President Mike Pence, who clocked in at \u206312 minutes\u2063 and 37 seconds.<\/p>\n<h3>A Bold \u200dEntrance<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Now everybody&#8217;s gotten \u200btheir memorized preprepared \u200cslogans out of the way, we can actually have a real\u2062 discussion now,&#8221; Ramaswamy said, coming out swinging.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Is \u200bthat one of yours?&#8221; Pence shot \u2062back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After ticking off several of his \u2064accomplishments as\u2062 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: 'Pipeline' to Obama Admin Seen as 'Currency'\">vice president<\/a>, Pence slammed Ramaswamy\u2019s lack of political experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI \u2062balanced budgets and cut \u200dtaxes when I was governor. I mean, look, Joe Biden has weakened this country at home and abroad,\u201d Pence said. \u200d\u201cNow is not the time for on-the-job training. We don\u2019t need to bring in a rookie,\u201d he said, making the first dig at Ramaswamy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As the wildcard candidate introduced himself,\u2063 he borrowed a line from former President Barack Obama, describing himself as \u201ca skinny guy with a funny last name.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWho the heck is this skinny guy with a funny last name, and what the heck is\u2062 he doing in the middle of \u200bthe debate stage,\u201d Ramaswamy asked rhetorically. \u201cI\u2019ll tell\u200b you I\u2019m not a politician. You\u2019re right about \u2062that, I\u2019m an entrepreneur.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Christie called Ramaswamy \u201cthe \u200dsame type of\u200b amateur\u201d as Obama, citing his remark as the unknown\u2063 skinny guy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT, the last person in one\u2064 of these debates\u2062 who stood in the middle of the stage and said, \u2018What\u2019s a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here,\u2019 was Barack Obama,\u201d\u2063 Christie said.<\/p>\n<h3>A Fearless Stance<\/h3>\n<p>As former President Donald Trump\u200c prepares to\u200c surrender to authorities in Georgia \u200con Thursday to face charges in\u2062 the\u2063 latest case \u200baccusing him of attempting to overturn his 2020 election loss in the state, the candidates were asked whether they would support \u200ca convicted Donald\u200d Trump as the party\u2019s choice. Ramaswamy immediately raised his hand and then \u200dcriticized Christie, claiming his campaign is based on \u201cvengeance and grievance.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s just speak the truth. Trump was\u200d the best president of the 21st century. Chris Christie, your claim that Donald Trump \u2062is motivated by vengeance and grievance would be more credible if your campaign were not \u200bbased on vengeance \u200dand grievance\u200b against one man,\u201d Ramaswamy said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The son of Indian immigrants was able to expertly insert himself into the debate when he was not at the\u2064 center of the conversation. After candidates were asked\u200b whether Pence did the right thing in certifying the elections on January 6, 2021, Ramaswamy pushed Pence on whether he would pardon Trump.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWell, Mike, why don\u2019t you say this \u2014 join me in making a commitment on day one, you would pardon Donald Trump, I\u2019m the only \u2064candidate on \u200cthe \u2064stage who has the courage to actually say it,\u201d Ramaswamy said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Pence said he \u200cwould consider it but noted it would depend on showing contrition.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve actually given pardons when I was governor of the state of Indiana. It usually follows a finding of guilt and contrition by the individual who \u2062has been convicted,\u201d Pence said. \u201cIf I am president of the United States, \u2064we will give\u200d fair consideration to any pardon\u2064 requests.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Controversial Stance<\/h3>\n<p>Early in\u200b the debate, the\u200b audience booed loudly when the entrepreneur and frequent guest on Fox News called climate change a hoax.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cClimate change is a hoax \u200d\u2026 The reality is more people are dying of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republican-debate-gop-field-piles-on-ramaswamy-who-makes-splash-in-stage-debut\/\" title=\"Republican debate: GOP targets Ramaswamy in impressive stage debut.\">bad climate change policies<\/a> than they are of actual climate change,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley fired back at Ramaswamy while also calling for China and India to cut emissions.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cFirst of \u2062all, we do care about clean air, clean water. We \u2062want to see that taken care of, but there is \u2063a right way to do it. The right \u200cway is, first of all, \u200dyes, is climate change real? Yes, it is,\u201d Haley said. \u201cBut if you want to go and really change the environment, we need to start telling China and India that they have to lower \u2062their emissions.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ramaswamy also reiterated \u200dhis view that Washington&#8217;s support\u2063 for Ukraine is not in America&#8217;s best interest, and he vowed not to support more funding for the war.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI find it offensive that we have professional politicians on \u200bthis stage who will make a pilgrimage to Kyiv, \u200bto\u2064 their pope, Zelensky, without doing the same thing for the people of Maui or the people on\u2062 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/another-eyewitness-account-from-the-stop-the-steal-event-at-the-us-capitol-including-a-memorial-to-ashli-babbit-pictures-video\/\" title=\"Another Eyewitness Account from the Stop the Steal Event at the US Capitol \u2014 Including a Memorial to Ashli Babbit (Pictures, Video)\">south side<\/a> of Chicago,\u201d Ramaswamy said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Haley criticized her Republican opponent for his lack of \u2063<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/4-hostile-regimes-testing-joe-biden-during-his-first-months-in-office\/\" title=\"4 Hostile Regimes Testing Joe Biden During His First Months In Office\">foreign policy chops<\/a> and his support of Russia while abandoning allies.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to hand Ukraine to Russia, he wants \u200cto let China eat Taiwan, he wants to go and stop funding Israel,\u201d Haley said. \u201cYou don\u2019t do that to friends. What you do instead is you have the backs of\u2064 your friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ramaswamy then criticized Haley by telling her, \u201cI wish you well in your future career on the \u2064boards of Lockheed \u2064and Raytheon,\u201d leading\u200c her\u200d to insist she is not on\u2062 the board of either defense contractor.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYou have no \u2062<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nikki-haley-at-rjc-biden-admin-cant-be-trusted-to-stop-iran-nuclear-threat\/\" title=\"Nikki Haley at RJC: Biden Admin Can\u2019t Be Trusted to Stop Iran Nuclear Threat\">foreign policy experience<\/a>,\u2064 and it shows,\u201d she \u2062said, earning applause from the crowd.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>A Fresh Perspective<\/h3>\n<p>Ramaswamy was the only candidate on the stage to\u200d raise his hand \u200bwhen the candidates were asked \u2062who would not keep supporting Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The youngest\u2063 Republican presidential candidate this cycle attempted to make the \u2063case that a new generation was better equipped to take control of the\u200b White House. His debate preparation included videos he released of himself playing tennis shirtless with college players across the country and videos of him\u200d working out and doing burpees.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2019s age and inexperience were front and center during the debate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t need a president who&#8217;s too old; \u200dwe don&#8217;t need a \u2063president who&#8217;s too young,\u201d Pence said toward the end of \u2063the debate.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI want to address Vice President Pence\u2019s comment; I think we need someone of a different \u2062generation\u200d to lead this nation,\u201d Ramaswamy said in response.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ramaswamy&#8217;s position \u2062has been\u200c rising in recent days, polling at about 9%, behind Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the Republican field. Recently, he has been attempting to respond \u2064to backlash\u200c after an interview with the Atlantic, where he\u2063 seemed to float a 9\/11 conspiracy theory, suggesting that police or federal agents could \u2063have been on the planes that hit the Twin Towers during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE \u2063FROM\u200c THE WASHINGTON \u2062EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Ramaswamy\u2019s closing statement, he made\u2064 it clear he would continue to lean into the generational gap between himself and the \u200dmore experienced\u200d candidates on the stage.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI was born in 1985, and I grew up\u200b into a generation\u200d where we were taught to celebrate our diversity and our\u200d differences so much\u2063 that\u2062 we forgot all of the ways we are \u200creally just the same as Americans bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion \u200din 1776,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the Republican primary debate, Vivek Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur, was relatively unknown. However, things have likely changed as he stood center stage, trading barbs with other candidates and interrupting regularly. Despite having no experience in elected office, Ramaswamy made his presence felt during the debate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2010442,"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-2010441","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\/2010441","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=2010441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}