Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy appeared at Friday’s Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference.
The Washington Examiner’s Christy Matino caught up with Ramaswamy on the second day of this year’s conference, titled “Road to Majority.” Ramaswamy was there alongside all the other 14 candidates vying for the Republican nomination except for Donald Trump, who is slated to speak at the end of the conference on Saturday.
“My strategy is to speak the truth without inhibition and bet that that is the winning political strategy,” Ramaswamy shared in an interview. “So the debate stage will be critical. Starting this fall I think that turns the dynamics of this race upside down.”
The Republican National Committee has decided that only candidates polling at at least 1% will be allowed on the debate stage. Trump has a 47% lead over the other GOP primary candidates, with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) at 26% and former Vice President Mike Pence at 9%, according to the most recent Fox News poll. Christie is 3% ahead of former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and Ramaswamy.
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“To me winning is not just winning the election, that’s just a milestone,” Ramaswamy told Matino. “To me winning is an eight-year, two-term period of leading this nation through a revival. We had the Reagan revolution in 1980. I joke, we have the Ramaswamy revolution of 2024.”
The first GOP primary debate is slated for August.
