Are we finally done with Vivek Ramaswamy?
Zachary Faria
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Vivek Ramaswamy’s terrible impression of a Republican campaign is finally fizzling out. Can we all finally move on from his ridiculous antics?
Ramaswamy’s campaign is finally being treated as the sideshow it always was, as Ramaswamy has been ruled out for CNN’s Iowa debate because he can’t meet the polling requirements. Naturally, Ramaswamy decided to make this a “you can’t fire me, I quit” situation, opting to hold his own event instead. CNN is requiring three polls of at least 10% among national Republicans or in Iowa.
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Ramaswamy hasn’t hit 10% nationally since a Morning Consult poll in September, according to the polls in RealClearPolitics’s polling average calculation. He hasn’t hit 10% in Iowa in any poll in the RealClearPolitics data list.
His sputtering campaign has already stopped all television ad spending, with Ramaswamy deriding that spending as “idiotic, low-ROI & a trick that political consultants use to bamboozle candidates who suffer from low IQ.” Those low-IQ candidates include Ramaswamy, whose campaign boasted in November about an eight-figure ad buy across Iowa and New Hampshire because “Vivek’s not an idiot.” In other words, you can add television ad spending to the long, seemingly never-ending list of things Ramaswamy has contradicted himself on.
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To top it all off, Ramaswamy was most recently endorsed by former Republican Iowa Rep. Steve King, the white supremacist sympathizer whom Republicans and Iowa voters pushed out of the party in 2020. It is impressive, at least, that Ramaswamy managed to find an even worse person to endorse him than YouTube personality Jake Paul, who found time to back Ramaswamy in between his multiple run-ins with law enforcement.
Ramaswamy’s parody campaign showed itself to be an embarrassment very early in the process. From his abysmal debate performances to his slavish devotion to former President Donald Trump, Ramaswamy was never in this campaign to win or to fight against Democratic Party policies. He was only in it for name recognition and to build a media brand. The Republican Party and the country would be better off if that effort failed and he is resigned to be a political afterthought.