Vivek Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old entrepreneur, is within the operating for US President

New Delhi:

Indian-American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy was in for lots of consideration — and drubbing in equal measure — on the debate of eight Republican US Presidential candidates at Milwaukee final night time.

Besides Ramaswamy, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson, former Vice President Mike Pence and South Carolina Senator Tim Scott have been on the stage.

Ramaswamy, who was second in lead after Trump within the newest opinion polls, declared that he was “only person on stage who is not bought and paid for”.

Pence, who has spent a long time within the corridors of energy, took a shot at newcomer Ramaswamy, calling him a “rookie” and saying that the US has “no time for on-the-job training”.

“Look, Joe Biden has weakened this country at home and abroad. Now is not the time for on-the-job training. We don’t need to bring in a rookie, we don’t need to bring in people without experience,” he stated. “Vivek, you recently said a president can’t do everything. Well, I’ve got news for you, Vivek. I have been in the hallway. I have been in the West Wing. The president of the United States has to confront every crisis facing America,” Pence added in one other swipe at Ramaswamy’s lack of expertise in politics.

This prompted a back-and-forth as Ramaswamy stated that if the senior politician was carried out with “prepared slogans”, a “real discussion” may start. At one other level within the debate, when the Indian-American entrepreneur stated the US is within the “middle of a national identity crisis”, Pence shot again, “We don’t have an identity crisis, Vivek. We are not looking for a new national identity.”

The two clashed once more throughout an trade on crime. Taking a swipe at Pence, Ramaswamy stated, “Some others like you on this stage may have an, ‘It’s morning in America speech.’ It is not morning in America. We live in a dark moment and we have to confront the fact that we’re in an internal sort of cold cultural civil war and we have to recognise that.”

Chris Christie, former New Jersey Governor, stated Ramaswamy’s solutions appeared to have come from ChatGPT. In a pointy comment, Ramaswamy stated Christie is operating a marketing campaign “based on vengeance and grievance” in opposition to Trump.

Thirty-eight-year-old Ramaswamy argued with former UN ambassador Haley over the US’s help to Ukraine.

“This is disastrous… we are protecting against an invasion across somebody else’s border when we should use those same military resources to prevent the invasion across our southern border here in the United States of America,” Ramaswamy stated on the Fox News debate. “We need to secure our own border instead of somebody else’s,” he added.

Haley shot again, accusing him of “wanting to hand Ukraine to Russia” and including, “You have no foreign policy experience, and it shows.” she stated throughout one of many night time’s most animated exchanges.

CNN termed the pile-on aimed toward Ramaswamy “surprising” and stated his opponents might have tried to scuttle his momentum after latest polls confirmed him rising as a frontrunner.

Another takeaway of the controversy was the lacklustre present by Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who was anticipated to be the focus of the controversy. 

The Guardian reported that the “Florida governor was often reduced to an onlooker as Ramaswamy threw rhetorical punches and others hit him back”.

“I think Ron DeSantis’s campaign is over. I think we’ve probably been seeing that for a while,” Donald Trump Jr, the eldest son of the previous US president, informed AFP. “Once people got to see him — not the sort of manufactured, paid influencer, two-second clip version of him — things changed.”