IOWA: Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy who dropped out of the 2024 Republican presidential race after ending fourth within the Iowa caucuses, has endorsed former President Donald Trump and urged Republican voters to place an “America First patriot” within the White Home. Taking to social media platform X, Ramaswamy acknowledged, “This complete marketing campaign is about talking the TRUTH. We didn’t obtain our objective tonight, & we’d like an America-First patriot within the White Home. The folks spoke loud & clear about who they need. Tonight I’m suspending my marketing campaign and endorsing Donald J. Trump and can do all the things I can to verify he’s the subsequent U.S. President.”
The 38-year-old political novice mentioned at a press convention at Des Moines, “There isn’t a path for me to be the subsequent president absent issues that we do not wish to see occur on this nation,” as reported by the Washington Submit. “We didn’t obtain the shock we wished to ship tonight,” Ramaswamy mentioned. Ramaswamy completed fourth in Iowa, in line with CNN Information projections, properly behind Trump, Florida Goveror Ron DeSantis and former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley.
The biotech entrepreneur mentioned he plans to look with Trump in New Hampshire at a Tuesday night rally. He additional expressed his help for Trump, including that he’s extraordinarily happy with the staff, the motion, and the nation. “Earlier tonight I known as Donald Trump to inform him that I congratulate him on his victory. And now going ahead, he can have my full endorsement for the presidency,” Ramaswamy mentioned.
In the meantime, CNN reported {that a} spokesperson for Ramaswamy’s presidential marketing campaign expressed dismay on the end result and mentioned the marketing campaign is “digesting and figuring out” because it seems forward to the subsequent stage. The Iowa caucus victory is taken into account step one in Donald Trump’s bid to assert the Republican nomination in a 3rd consecutive election. By the way, Trump had misplaced within the State eight years in the past.
In a speech from his marketing campaign headquarters in Des Moines in Iowa, Trump congratulated his opponents DeSantis and Haley each of whom he thought “did very properly.” He additionally praised Vivek Ramaswamy for doing a “hell of a job,” CNN reported. “They’re very sensible, very sensible folks, very succesful folks,” Trump mentioned of his opponents.
In keeping with the newest figures by CNN, after 96 per cent of outcomes have been launched, Ramaswamy is projected to win solely three out of 40 delegates in Iowa. Ramaswamy had been certainly one of Trump’s staunchest defenders towards the 4 indictments levelled towards him. He pledged to take away himself from the ballots in Colorado and Maine after the previous president was disqualified from the 2 states. He even vowed to pardon Trump of all expenses on his first day in workplace.
