‘Anti-Woke’ candidate broadcasts presidential bid

(The Middle Sq.) – A brand new Republican candidate threw his hat into the presidential race late Tuesday, focusing his marketing campaign on an “anti-woke” agenda.

Vivek Ramaswamy, an creator, activist, and a multimillionaire businessman, introduced his candidacy on Tucker Carlson tonight and with a string of Tweets

“We’re in the midst of a nationwide identification disaster,” Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter. “Religion, patriotism & onerous work have disappeared. Wokeism, climatism & gender ideology have changed them. We starvation for goal but can't reply what it means to be an American. We lengthy for that reply. That’s why I’m working for President.”

Ramaswamy mentioned “ending affirmative motion” could be a prime precedence for him upon taking workplace and named China as the highest international coverage risk to the U.S. and known as for going after the Mexican cartels. He emphasised the significance of meritocracy, free speech, and self governance on Carlson’s program.

“Individuals who we elect, make them truly run the federal government slightly than this cancerous federal paperwork,” he mentioned. “That’s going to be the guts of my message.”

Ramaswamy’s announcement comes after Nikki Haley, the previous South Carolina governor and presidential Cupboard member, introduced earlier this month she is working for president.

Haley, 51, served as ambassador to the United Nations throughout the Trump administration. Trump additionally introduced final 12 months he's working for president.

Ramaswamy lives in Columbus, Ohio together with his household. He has written two books, “Woke, Inc.: Inside Company America’s Social Justice Rip-off” in addition to his second ebook, “Nation of Victims: Id Politics, the Demise of Benefit, and the Path Again to Excellence.”

“We’ve celebrated our ‘variety’ a lot that we forgot all of the methods we’re actually the identical as Individuals, certain by beliefs that united a divided, headstrong group of individuals 250 years in the past,” Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter. “I imagine deep in my bones these beliefs nonetheless exist. I’m working for President to revive them."