Vivek Ramaswamy either did very well or very poorly on the Republican debate stage Wednesday night, depending on who you ask.
Certainly, more attention went to him than expected: Ramaswamy angled his way to the second-highest speaking time, and the entrepreneur, who has been closing in on Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the polls, came out swinging, though he was walloped by Chris Christie (for mimicking former President Barack Obama) and Nikki Haley (for his ludicrous foreign policy ideas).
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Importantly, however, Ramaswamy had the distinction of delivering the night’s strongest closing statement.
“I was born in 1985,” he began, ever eager to separate himself from the seeming octogenarians around him, “and I grew up into a generation where we were taught to celebrate our diversity and our differences so much that we forgot all of the ways that we are really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion in 1776.”
He continued:
While other candidates delivered canned generalizations about American prosperity, Ramaswamy made specific claims about what makes America great. With ideas such as "there are two genders" suddenly up for debate, the GOP cannot afford to hide behind generalizations and platitudes. Ramaswamy made some punchy, specific claims on the debate stage Wednesday night. Other candidates should take note.