Washington: Indian-American tech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy introduced that he’s dropping out of the 2024 Republican presidential race, and endorsed former US President Donald Trump who gained the essential Iowa caucuses.
The 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur informed his supporters on Monday night time that he’s ending marketing campaign after a dismal end in Iowa’s leadoff caucuses.
The political beginner and the youngest candidate within the presidential race was trailing on the distant fourth spot with seven per cent of the votes counted.
“As of this second, we’re going to droop this presidential marketing campaign. Earlier tonight I known as Donald Trump to inform him that I congratulate him on his victory, and now going ahead, you’ll have my full endorsement for the presidency,” The Hill reported Ramaswamy as saying.
Trump, America’s twice-impeached former president dealing with greater than 90 prison fees, emerged triumphant in Iowa, solidifying his place because the frontrunner for the Republican nomination.
The Republican frontrunner, who has all the time praised Ramaswamy as a “good man” and a “very clever individual”, just lately slammed the political newcomer as “very sly” and requested voters not get “duped” by his “deceitful marketing campaign tips”.
Ramaswamy mentioned he’s not going to criticise Trump in response to his assault, which he known as a “pleasant hearth”.
Asserting that he’s not a “Plan B individual”, Ramaswamy has dominated out the potential of him being the Vice President, saying he wouldn’t do nicely in a quantity two place in August final 12 months.
The exit of the anti-woke crusader, who launched his marketing campaign bid in February 2023, comes not lengthy after former New Jersey governor Chris Christie introduced he was dropping his White Home bid.
Large Gurdon, editor-in-chief of conservative publication Washington Examiner, wrote that each presidential election throws up an “attention-grabbing candidate” who’s “evidently clever, extremely unconventional, and fewer like all of the others than they’re like one another”.
And Ramaswamy had change into the “attention-grabbing candidate” of the 2024 election cycle.
Born to immigrant mother and father from India, he made thousands and thousands as a pharmaceutical entrepreneur and wrote a e book slamming woke to check the waters for a plunge into politics.
He was clearly the star of the primary Republican debate as he compelled himself into a lot of the dialog, which included sharp jabs from Christie, who mentioned he seemed like ChatGPT.
Fellow Indian-American and Republican rival, Nikki Haley, known as him a “scum” for mentioning her daughter’s reference in a debate on TikTok.
She additionally mentioned that Ramaswamy has “no overseas coverage expertise and it exhibits”.
