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4. Who is Vivek Ramaswamy: 5 things to know about this 2024 presidential candidate
While the 2024 presidential election features well-established candidates like former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, the presence of largely unknown entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in the race has gained much attention this year. Ramaswamy, a Hindu who attended Catholic schools, is the youngest candidate in the race at 38 years old.
Ramaswamy has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and earned his law degree at another Ivy League institution, Yale University. He has written two books: Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam and Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.
Both books decry the efforts of corporate America and American culture as a whole to divide Americans based on identity groups, and reflect on the founding principles of the U.S. and how to reassert them. Ramaswamy has made the abolition of affirmative action and the embrace of a merit-based immigration system central tenets of his campaign.
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He has also signaled his intention to “enforce existing civil-rights laws to protect workers from invidious viewpoint discrimination” and “repeal civil-service protections for federal employees” to make it easier to remove unelected bureaucrats who often spend their entire careers in Washington as they yield an increasing amount of power in American government.
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Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: [email protected]
