Vivek Ramaswamy's political director leaving to join Trump campaign

[mystery-ak]

Vivek Ramaswamy's political director leaving to join Trump campaign

By Jacob Rosen, Shawna Mizelle

November 29, 2023 / 2:49 PM EST / CBS News

With the Iowa caucuses less than 50 days away, one of GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's top political advisers is leaving to work for former President Donald Trump's campaign, according to multiple sources familiar with the move.

Brian Swensen, who served as Ramaswamy's national political director since the spring and was a key player in the campaign's work in New Hampshire, confirmed to CBS News he is leaving and directed further questions about his future role to the Trump campaign.

"We love Brian," Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy's communications director, told CBS News. "It's a good move for Brian and we're happy for him."

News of Swensen's departure comes at a critical time for Ramaswamy, who has failed to recapture the momentum he had over the summer.

Polls in Iowa and New Hampshire show the Ohio entrepreneur in the single digits, lagging far behind Trump. Ramaswamy has largely fallen out of the second tier of candidates, which now includes former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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[kevindavis007]

So the guy is leaving a grifter campaign to join another grifter campaign.

[mountaineer]

   Dec 1, 2023
Retired FBI agent warns Vivek Ramaswamy to be 'very careful' on the campaign trail
"You mean 'be careful' be careful."

Vivek Ramaswamy was at a campaign stop in Iowa on Thursday and met a retired FBI agent and his wife who said they were supporters. The former agent gave Ramaswamy a warning.

"I met a former FBI agent and his wife on the campaign trail here in Iowa. They agree with me: we need to root out the corruption & shut down the FBI. At the local level, we have police & prosecutors. At the federal level, we have U.S. marshals & the DOJ. An intermediary bureaucracy is rife with risk for politicized corruption & it’s been happening since J. Edgar Hoover in the 60s," Ramaswamy said on X of the exchange.  ...

"I’d get some very, very competent help, some very competent people to do intelligence work for you before you went places," the man said.

"I appreciate that. We'll take that seriously, man. We're reading between the lines of what you're saying and we gotcha," Ramaswamy said.  ...

The Post Millennial
 

[Right_in_Virginia]

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