Vivek Ramaswamy launches patriotism scholarship for college students

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy launched a scholarship program on Wednesday that goals to "foster nationwide pleasure" amongst younger folks amid declining patriotism.

Ramaswamy, a long-shot 2024 hopeful, is committing $250,000 in scholarship funding to revive patriotism. The scholarship will go to 10 highschool college students, who will every obtain $25,000 this 12 months.

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Scholarship entrance requires college students to submit a two-minute video answering the query of what it means to be an American. A panel will choose the awardees, who will probably be allowed to make use of the scholarship for post-secondary schooling, entrepreneurial endeavors, or navy and legislation enforcement enrollment.

As a millennial presidential candidate, Ramaswamy has usually championed encouraging youthful folks to seek out worth in a patriot ideology.

“One of many issues I believe we should always require is that each highschool senior who graduates from highschool needs to be required to go the identical civics take a look at required of each immigrant who turns into a naturalized citizen on this nation," he stated someday earlier than the July 4 celebrations throughout a Fox News interview.

In that very same interview, he known as for the abolishment of the Division of Schooling as a consider reviving nationwide pleasure.

"It is simply that I am operating for U.S. president. I am going to let you know what the U.S. president can do this's best: shut down the Division of Schooling that makes use of that cash as a cudgel to get native faculty districts to undertake poisonous and racial agendas," he stated.

There's some knowledge that help Ramaswamy's declarations of low nationwide pleasure. A latest survey from Gallup confirmed that 38% of adults stated they have been "extraordinarily proud" to be American, the bottom level in Gallup's pattern, which started in 2001. Amongst these ages 18-35, solely 25% stated they have been "extraordinarily proud" to be American, whereas 51% of individuals age 55 and up stated they have been "extraordinarily proud."

Ramaswamy faces a tricky battle to change into the GOP's subsequent standard-bearer as he polls within the low single digits in nationwide surveys. A RealClearPolitics polling common exhibits him receiving 2.4% of Republican major voter help.

The scholarship funds will probably be administered by the nonprofit Incubate Debate.