{"id":2150075,"date":"2024-01-16T00:56:02","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-ends-campaign-following-fourth-place-finish-in-iowa\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T00:56:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T05:56:02","slug":"vivek-ramaswamy-ends-campaign-following-fourth-place-finish-in-iowa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vivek-ramaswamy-ends-campaign-following-fourth-place-finish-in-iowa\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivek Ramaswamy Ends Campaign Following Fourth-Place Finish in Iowa"},"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%2Fvivek-ramaswamy-ends-campaign-following-fourth-place-finish-in-iowa%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=2150075&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--><section id=\"article\">\n<article data-post-title=\"Vivek Ramaswamy Ends Campaign Following Fourth-Place Finish in Iowa\" data-post-slug=\"http:\/\/trump-wins-iowa-now-what\" data-post-url id=\"print-1849008\">\n<div>\n<h2>38-year-old entrepreneur guaranteed he&#8217;d &#8216;stay in this race through November&#8217; prior to poor caucus showing<\/h2>\n<figure><figcaption> \t\t\t\t(Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the Republican presidential primary race on Monday after coming in at a distant fourth place in the Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ramaswamy announced his decision in a speech late Monday evening, telling his supporters there was &#8220;no path for me to be the next president absent things that we don&#8217;t want to see happen in this country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">But he also promised he was &#8220;not going anywhere&#8221; and would continue his political activism beyond the election.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur received roughly 7 percent of the vote in the Iowa contest, well behind former president Donald Trump&#8217;s 51 percent, Florida governor Ron DeSantis&#8217;s\u00a0 21 percent, and former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley&#8217;s 19 percent. Hours before voting started in the Hawkeye State, Ramaswamy <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/McCormackJohn\/status\/1746889339898904964?s=20\">guaranteed<\/a> he would &#8220;stay in this race through November.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">His exit comes days after Trump slammed him as a &#8220;fraud.&#8221; Ramaswamy has spent the race praising Trump and marketing himself as the future of the &#8220;America First&#8221; movement.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ramaswamy&#8217;s departure caps off a tumultuous campaign in which the candidate courted controversy with his isolationist positions on U.S. national security and opposition to American military support for Israel.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He also had a notoriously testy relationship with the press and <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ramaswamy-campaign-cuts-off-free-beacon-access-after-appearance-on-anti-semitic-youtubers-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ramaswamy-campaign-cuts-off-free-beacon-access-after-appearance-on-anti-semitic-youtubers-podcast\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1OW7pLLv_Pz_KfMMStqtHx\">banned<\/a> the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> from talking to him last year in retaliation for a story he viewed as unflattering. The <em>Free Beacon<\/em> continued to cover his campaign.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ramaswamy enjoyed a brief rise in the polls over the summer, reaching third place in the race behind Trump and DeSantis before sinking back down into a far-off fourth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">He drew criticism in June for his opposition to U.S. military aid to Israel, a position that was first <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/vivek-ramaswamy-tells-voter-hes-open-to-ending-foreign-aid-to-israel-says-it-was-misunderstanding\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/vivek-ramaswamy-tells-voter-hes-open-to-ending-foreign-aid-to-israel-says-it-was-misunderstanding\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0hwYAdjnd26oHP-5HQBIyY\">reported<\/a> by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em> but which <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/a-guide-to-vivek-ramaswamys-shifting-stances-on-aid-to-israel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/a-guide-to-vivek-ramaswamys-shifting-stances-on-aid-to-israel\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw25ff2kxHXAq5MaTGl-MJ_J\">shifted<\/a> several times over the summer.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In October, Ramaswamy said he opposed U.S. funding to support Israel\u2019s military operations in Gaza. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/ramaswamy-says-gop-selective-moral-outrage-on-israel-driven-by-money-lobbying-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/ramaswamy-says-gop-selective-moral-outrage-on-israel-driven-by-money-lobbying-groups\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1_3WqAW8d2CU3qEtydSOPf\">criticized<\/a> Republicans for their &#8220;selective moral outrage&#8221; at the mass terrorist attacks in Israel and argued that politicians calling for a stronger military response against Hamas and Iran are driven by donor money.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In September, the candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/good-to-be-on-ramaswamy-appears-on-anti-semitic-youtubers-podcast\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/good-to-be-on-ramaswamy-appears-on-anti-semitic-youtubers-podcast\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw3l7OTTMTEnYiOeTshQ7hPD\">appeared<\/a> on a podcast hosted by an anti-Semitic YouTuber who has accused Jews of having &#8220;dual loyalty&#8221; and claimed that Zionists &#8220;worship the nation of Israel over America and are willing to infringe on their own country&#8217;s values to serve that agenda.&#8221;\t<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">During the GOP debates, Ramaswamy drew media <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/mission-accomplished-ramaswamy-delivers-on-promise-to-be-unhinged-at-gop-debate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/mission-accomplished-ramaswamy-delivers-on-promise-to-be-unhinged-at-gop-debate\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2EkfkBhS9Qwm7cbEuC9lkJ\">attention<\/a> for his combative style and personal attacks on fellow candidates, even as his poll numbers continued to drop. He also <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ramaswamy-claims-9-11-government-cover-up-pushes-great-replacement-theory\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ramaswamy-claims-9-11-government-cover-up-pushes-great-replacement-theory\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1kJ0VzLifbJAI0BOndRy74\">accused<\/a> the government of withholding truths about the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and orchestrating the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Ramaswamy\u2019s departure comes one week before the Republican primary in New Hampshire. In September, Ramaswamy stood by his New Hampshire campaign chairman who <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ramaswamy-campaign-chairman-a-9-11-truther-welcomed-the-candidate-to-granite-state-on-eve-of-sept-11-anniversary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/elections\/ramaswamy-campaign-chairman-a-9-11-truther-welcomed-the-candidate-to-granite-state-on-eve-of-sept-11-anniversary\/&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1705468777951000&#038;usg=AOvVaw1AXwaTepTRaiErlCM_oxFl\">questioned<\/a> whether terrorists actually flew planes into the Pentagon on Sept. 11.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>38-year-old entrepreneur guaranteed he&#8217;d &#8216;stay in this race through November&#8217; prior to poor caucus showing (Getty Images) Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the Republican presidential primary race on Monday after coming in at a distant fourth place in the Iowa caucuses. Ramaswamy announced his decision in a speech late Monday evening, telling his supporters there<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":2150076,"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":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"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\/2150075","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\/120"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2150076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}