Vivek Ramaswamy a promising candidate for US president: Elon Musk

CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk on Friday praised Indian-American lawmaker Vivek Ramaswamy who is all set to contest against the ex-president of US Donald Trump in Republican primaries for presidential polls calling him a ‘very promising candidate’.

“He is a very promising candidate,” Elon Musk said on Twitter while referring to Ramaswamy’s interview with popular journalist Tucker Carlson. Notably, he is the youngest Republican Presidential candidate.

It is to be noted here that the statement from Musk came months after the Republican leader called out the name of the billionaire’s closeness with Chinese minister after Tesla CEO took a trip to the country.

Here’s what Ramaswamy said:

Ramaswamy took it to Twitter saying, “I’m breaking an unspoken rule in the GOP, but I call it like I see it: it’s deeply concerning that @elonmusk met with China’s foreign minister yesterday to oppose decoupling and referred to the U.S. & Communist China as “conjoined twins.” Tesla’s VP in China reposted that statement on Weibo in China, but curiously not here in the U.S. In October, Elon issued an unprompted call for “reunification” of Taiwan & won a favorable tax benefit in Shanghai days later. I’ve been one of the most vocal supporters of Elon’s effort to transform Twitter, but it’s a real risk to the U.S. when the CCP turns our most prominent business leaders & celebrities – Tim Cook, Larry Fink, LeBron James, Elon Musk – into puppets to advance their agenda. That tilts the global scales of perception in China’s favor – and sadly, it’s working. The U.S. needs leaders who aren’t in China’s pocket, yet Biden is just another embodiment of that same problem.”

Ramaswamy hit out at China for using their prominent US business leader as puppet to fulfil their agenda.

Notably, Ramaswamy is among the three Indian-Americans who will contest against the former US President Donald Trump. The other two are Nikki Haley and Hirsh Vardhan Singh.