Donald Trump is reportedly pushing failed presidential candidate and billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy to take JD Vance’s soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat in Ohio.
In line with the Washington Put up, Trump has inspired Ramaswamy to take the place if provided by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine, who will make the appointment for the vacated seat as soon as Vance is sworn in as vp. The outlet additionally studies that Ramaswamy was planning to run for Ohio governor in 2026.
If Ramaswamy assumed the place, Ohio could be represented by a senator whose historical past is checkered with selling debunked conspiracy theories.
Throughout his unsuccessful presidential marketing campaign, Ramaswamy stated that the Jan. 6 riot of the U.S. Capitol seemed prefer it was an “inside job,” amplifying a conservative conspiracy that it was undertaken by shadowy forces inside the authorities.
“Why am I the only person on this stage, at least, who can say that Jan. 6 now does look like it was an inside job?” Ramaswamy requested his fellow Republican candidates throughout a December 2023 debate.
He additionally posted on social media on the anniversary of the riot, writing “Happy Entrapment Day,” a nod to the debunked right-wing conspiracy concept that federal brokers staged the occasion to entrap Trump supporters. Trump’s Secretary of Protection nominee, Pete Hegseth, has espoused related beliefs.
Ramaswamy has additionally claimed that the racist “great replacement” conspiracy concept, which argues that elevated immigration from Mexico is a plan to exchange white folks with Latinx folks, is “a basic statement of the Democratic Party’s platform.”
He additionally promoted the falsehood that the 2020 election was “stolen by Big Tech.”
Maybe essentially the most absurd conspiracy that Ramaswamy has embraced is his concept that the results of the 2024 Tremendous Bowl was rigged in favor of the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs and that it might be related to a future endorsement of President Joe Biden from Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift.
When he’s not selling conspiracies, Ramaswamy has embraced unpopular conservative coverage concepts, like privatizing Social Safety.
In a video for AARP, Ramaswamy endorsed the failed proposal from former President George W. Bush to permit partial privatization of the favored pension program by investing funds within the inventory market.
Together with Elon Musk, Ramaswamy is at present co-chairing the Division of Authorities Effectivity (DOGE), a non-governmental stress group created by Trump. DOGE representatives have reportedly been harassing federal staff in an effort to undermine federal spending.
And lately, Ramaswamy denigrated U.S. tradition in a prolonged put up on X claiming that “American culture has venerated mediocrity over excellence for way too long.”
“A culture that celebrates the prom queen over the math olympiad champ, or the jock over the valedictorian, will not produce the best engineers. A culture that venerates Cory from ‘Boy Meets World,’ or Zach & Slater over Screech in ‘Saved by the Bell,’ or ‘Stefan’ over Steve Urkel in ‘Family Matters,’ will not produce the best engineers,” he wrote.
So, if Ramaswamy assumes the Senate seat in Ohio, he’ll be representing the very folks he believes to be subpar.
