During an interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy refused to back away from saying he would support Donald Trump if the former president is nominated again, adding that there is “a deranged mental cultural state in the media,” where Trump is concerned.
Stephanopoulos questioned why Ramaswamy would say he would support Trump, noting “You find his actions abhorrent around January 6. You said he was wrong to take the classified information, you said you would not do that yourself. But you still say you would vote for him for President. That’s what I don’t get.”
Ramaswamy asserted that he is doing what “every Republican nominee said to make it on that debate stage that we will actually support the Republican nominee from our party.”
He further urged that Stephanopoulos line of questioning is the “embodiment of what’s wrong with our culture right now. Looking backwards, obsessing over details in the past, going after one man, a deranged mental cultural state in the media.”
The anchor wouldn’t let up, telling Ramaswamy “Sir, that man is the front-runner for the Republican nomination right now. He’s a former President of the United States. He’s leading you by 40 points. Yet you still say you would vote for him despite what you say about his behavior. That’s the question I am asking. It’s not an obsession. He’s the frontrunner right now.”
“Just as I expect him to vote for me when I’m the nominee,” Ramaswamy shot back.
“I think that the way elections work in the United States of America is that the people in a political party get to choose their nominee, and then the people from the general election get to choose their President,” he urged, adding “The fact that that’s a foreign idea shows how badly our political culture has decayed in this country.”
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“I’m asking why you made the promise. Why do you think it’s okay for a convicted felon to be president?” Stephanopoulos continued.
“I think that many of these prosecutions against Donald Trump are outright, downright politicized persecutions through prosecution that set an awful precedent for our country,” Ramaswamy responded.
“I do not want to see us become a banana republic where the administrative police state uses police force to eliminate opponents from competition. That’s not the way it works. I will pick who I believe the best next president should be,” Ramamswamy further emphasised.
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