GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he believes the investigation into President Joe Biden’s prior possession of classified documents is being held at bay until it is needed to remove him from the 2024 race.
“He is really just a puppet for the managerial class and the administrative state as it exists today, and I actually have somewhat of a contrarian prediction,” Ramaswamy told Fox News Tonight. "If there’s a scenario President Trump’s out of the race — Biden is actually the puppet they want to put up against him — but the reason they have the document investigation going against Biden is they’re going to pull that card on him whenever he stops being a convenient puppet for them.”
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“So, we have to see through that farce,” he added. “This is not Biden just being an unintelligent rambler. He is a puppet for the administrative state. That’s the truth.”
Ramaswamy, 37, said that should he win the GOP nomination and Biden be the Democratic nominee, he hopes to meet him on the debate stage.
“I am running to lead a nation, not a political party. If I’m asking the people of this country to give me permission to represent the United States of America across the table from Xi Jinping, I better be willing to sit across the table from Dana Bash, Chuck Todd, Don Lemon, all of whom I visited,” Ramaswamy said, referencing his heated interviews with left-leaning cable news hosts. “Now, Chuck Todd and Don Lemon are no longer on the air after my interviews with them, but I think that if we are going to lead this country, we have to be willing to take the heat. I’m in this race for a reason.”
“So, look, I want to see him on the debate stage,” Ramaswamy continued, speaking of Biden, “and have him meet the same fate that Don Lemon did — put him out of a job.”
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The GOP candidate, who is a multimillionaire entrepreneur, touts himself as a political outsider — one who would bring a fresh perspective to Washington.
Polling shows 2.8% of Republican voters back Ramaswamy, trailing behind Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), and the current GOP leader, Trump.