Ramaswamy Is Urging Trump, Republicans to Take This Advice if They Want to Win in 2024
Leah Barkoukis
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Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is urging former President Donald Trump and Republicans to shift their focus to policy rather than personal attacks if they want to win the 2024 election.
“Given the messenger, this comes as something of a surprise,” noted Politico Playbook, which spoke to the former GOP presidential candidate on Wednesday.
Ramaswamy was clear-eyed about where things stand. He not only delivered a warning to Republicans, but acknowledged his own shortcomings in the primary, claiming to be something of a changed man who’s learned a lesson or two on how not to run a campaign — lessons he hopes Trump will internalize.
ON THE GOP MESSAGE: In Ramaswamy’s view, Republicans are not talking enough about Harris’ policy stances, something he calls a “missed opportunity.” Harris, he notes, has an extensive record Republicans can assail — from her past support for eliminating private health insurance to banning fracking — while drawing a policy contrast with the GOP.
“I think if we’re able to say … ‘This is our vision for the entire United States’ … then we go down the list and say, ‘Here are the policies that Kamala Harris has [not only] stood for in the past but that she has actually taken steps to implement …. I think we can win this thing not only by a small margin, but still in something that resembles a landslide.”
He added: “But that’s not up to anybody else but us. And so that’s the work we have cut out for our own side. And if we do it, I think we win. And if not, I think we lose.” (Politico Playbook)
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