Vivek Ramaswamy is the second Indian-American to announce the 2024 Presidential bid. He enters in the race by announcing a promise to put merit back and end dependence on China.He has become the second community member after Nikki Haley to enter the Republican Partys Presidential bid. Ramaswamy, 37, whose parents migrated to US from Kerala and worked at General Electric plant in Ohio announced his Presidential bid during a live interview.Earlier this month, Nikki Haley announced her presidential campaign. She has served as two-term former governor of South Carolina and former US Ambassador to the United Nations. She declared that she would compete for the Republican Party candidature against Donald Trump, her former employer and the former president of the United States.“We are in the middle of this national identity crisis where we have celebrated our differences for so long that we forgot all the ways we are really just the same as Americans bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago,” Ramaswamy said. He also called Wokeism a national threat. “Thats why I am proud to say tonight that I am running for United States president to revive those ideals in this country,” he announced.Weve celebrated our “diversity” so much that we forgot all the ways were really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago. I believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. Im running for President to revive them. pic.twitter.com/bz5Qtt4tmm— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) February 22, 2023He said that he will stop affirmative action in “every aspect of American life,” saying, “I think we need to put merit back into America in every spirit of our lives. Ramaswamy, a second-generation Indian-American, created Roivant Sciences in 2014 and oversaw the biggest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016. His efforts eventually paid off with the FDA-approval of medications resulting from successful clinical trials in a number of illness categories.He has founded other successful healthcare and technology companies, and in 2022, he launched Strive Asset Management, a firm focused on restoring the voice of every citizen.Ramaswamy is the author of “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate Americas Social Justice Scam” and has been dubbed “the CEO of Anti-Woke, Inc.” in New Yorker magazine profile last year.He added, “Im all for putting America first, but in order to put America first, we have to first rediscover what America is. And to me, those are these basic rules of the road that set this nation into motion from meritocracy to free speech, to self-governance over aristocracy.”Before entering the presidential bid, Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley have to win the Republican Partys presidential primary which will start in January next year. The next US presidential election is scheduled to be held on November 5, 2024. Vivek Ramaswamy is the fourth Indian-American to run for the White House. Before this, Bobby Jindal ran in 2016 and Vice President Kamala Harris in 2020 for the White House.Who is Vivek RamaswamyVivek Ramaswamy born in 1985, is an American entrepreneur, author, and political activist. In 2022, he co-founded Strive Asset Management and currently serving as the Executive Chairman. He also founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences. In addition to Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Way Back to Excellence, which was published on September 13, 2022, he is the author of Awake, Inc.: Inside Corporate Americas Social Justice Fraud, which was published in August 2021.Know about Nikki Haley alsoNikki Haley was elected again in 2014 after becoming South Carolinas first female and Asian governor in 2010. Prior to being elected governor of South Carolina, she served in the legislature for six years.The first Indian American woman to run for president is Nikki Haley. She entered the room in her capacity as the previous governor of South Carolina and US ambassador to the UN. She welcomed the Republican Party, introducing herself as the proud daughter of immigrants from India.
