Vivek Ramaswamy, biotechnology entrepreneur and author of “Nation of Victims,” threw his hat in the ring on Tuesday for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Statements of candidacy filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) indicates that Ramaswamy, 37, is registering as a Republican. He became the third Republican to join the race, after former President Donald Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley.
“We’re in the midst of a national identity crisis. Faith, patriotism, hard work, and family are on the decline,” Ramaswamy wrote in a statement provided to The Epoch Times, after announcing his presidential bid. “Climateism, wokeism, and gender ideology have taken their place. We need to fill that identity vacuum with a vision of American national identity that dilutes the woke agenda to irrelevance. If we revive American pride, then we can take on the single greatest external threat we face: Communist China.”…