Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday voted against controversial former nine-term Republican Rep. Steve King, whom House Republicans turned away from five years ago over his comments on race, immigration and the border wall. (Iowa State) welcomed the support.
“I am proud to have the support of Steve King, and he has been unfairly demonized by the media, who have never cited racist comments or anything he has said. “I'm rejecting a lot of this mainstream media 'stories,'” Ramaswamy tells reporters on camera in a clip shared by King on X.
“But, for my purposes, he and I are talking about an issue that no other Republican candidate has spoken out about: prominent land grabs for grabbing the land of innocent farmers who don't want it built in their backyards.” found a common cause on the issue of opposing CO2 pipelines using “In fact, this person was still advocating building a wall before it cooled down. Now, what we accept is There is a need to normalize policies in the country,” Ramaswamy said. “And, yes, I'm proud to have his support, and I've met so many Iowans on the ground, and they're so different from the media that someone We understand that we are in a position to actually represent our interests and say things that others are not saying, from carbon capture pipelines to actual security at our borders, to restoring our national identity, and even more. He's happy to speak out on a variety of issues, from making English the national language of the United States, and I agree. “I'm not a political analyst. That's your job. You might want to take a look.”
King captioned the X-Post, “Vivek Ramaswami speaks truth to fiction!”
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Republican presidential candidate and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks with guests during a campaign stop in Webster City, Iowa, on December 19, 2023. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
In a video statement early Tuesday, King announced his support for Ramaswamy as “our strongest voice defending our Constitution and restoring the pillars of American exceptionalism.”
“Vivek is going to stand up and he is going to stand up for the rights of our people. He will really build a wall on the border and I ask you to come with me on January 15th. “The mighty Vivek Ramaswamy caucus spoke out, saying we need to protect the Constitution and reestablish America's destiny,” Dr. King said.
Then-Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) speaks to the audience before a campaign rally inside the Knapp Center Arena at Drake University on January 30, 2020 in Des Moines, Iowa. Prior to the Iowa caucuses, then-President Trump hosted a campaign rally at Drake University. (Tom Brenner/Getty Images)
In 2019, House Republicans led by then-Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) removed King from three congressional committee assignments, and all House Republicans joined Democrats in passing a resolution of disapproval of King. I voted. The longtime Iowa congressman, known for his inflammatory statements, made comments about immigration and then-President Trump's border wall.
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At the time, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote in the Times, “White supremacist, white supremacist, Western civilization — why have these words become so offensive? “Were you teaching about the benefits of civilization?” he said.
Vivek Ramaswamy will speak in Webster City, Iowa on December 19, 2023. The Iowa Republican Party will caucus on January 15, 2024, to be the first to choose the party's nominee for the 2024 presidential election. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
In an interview, King said he supported legal immigration and the full assimilation of American citizens into “American culture.” After this article was published, he issued a statement calling himself a “nationalist” and defending his support for “Western Civilization values,” although he said he supports “white nationalism and white supremacy.” I made it clear that no.
“I want to be clear: I reject those labels and the evil ideology they define,” he wrote in 2019.
King ultimately lost his reelection bid in 2020 to then-state Sen. Randy Feenstra.
Then-Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) speaks at a press conference on October 16, 2019, after being denied admission to a deposition and access to records related to the House impeachment inquiry. former State Department advisors Michael McKinley and Kurt Volker; Former envoys to Ukraine were expelled from the country. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, via Getty Images)
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Mr. Ramaswamy himself spoke on stage at a Republican debate last month about what some critics called racist accusations that non-European immigrants in the United States were being used to replace white voters. “The Great Alternative Theory” is “not some grand right-wing conspiracy theory,” he said. But it is a fundamental statement of the Democratic Party platform. ”
