Tesla CEO Elon Musk on Thursday praised lawmaker Vivek Ramaswamy — who is set to contest against former US President Donald Trump in Republican primaries for presidential polls.
“He is a very promising candidate,” Musk said on X (formerly Twitter) while referring to Ramaswamy’s interview with journalist Tucker Carlson.
Meanwhile, Ramswamy has been quite straightforward with his agenda for the poll campaign. He has called China the “biggest threat” that the US faces and said that he would go for “total de-coupling” with Beijing if he comes to power.
“Xi Jinping is the dictator and China is the top threat that the United States faces. I think I am the clearest candidate in declaring a clear path in declaring economic independence from China. That would be the first step in our policy,” Ramaswamy had earlier said in an interview with Fox News.
On the other occasion, Ramaswamy said that in the name of protecting against the tyranny of the majority, we have created a new tyranny of the minority.
The 37-year-old lawmaker was born on August 9, 1985, and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents migrated to the US from India’s Kerala. He attended Harvard University for his undergrad and later got a law degree from Yale University.
Ramaswamy is the author of “Woke, Inc: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam” and has been dubbed “the CEO of Anti-Woke Inc” by The New Yorker.
