Democratic National Committee Chairman Jaime Harrison slammed the growing GOP presidential field following the entrance of Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday evening.
In a statement, Harrison said that Ramaswamy’s announcement, which occurred during an interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, was a sign that the GOP will become increasingly extreme in the 2024 presidential race.
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“As Vivek Ramaswamy uses Tucker Carlson’s show to announce his campaign for president, one thing is clear: The race for the MAGA base is getting messier and more crowded by the day,” Harrison said. “Over the next few months, Republicans are guaranteed to take exceedingly extreme positions on everything from banning abortion to cutting Social Security and Medicare and we look forward to continuing to ensure every American knows just how extreme the MAGA agenda is.”
Ramaswamy, a conservative entrepreneur and “anti-woke” activist, became the third Republican to announce his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election. The tech billionaire is running on an explicitly “anti-woke” platform, condemning “the poison of wokeism and climatism and transgenderism — and COVIDism for that matter.”
“We are in the middle of this national identity crisis, Tucker, where we have celebrated our differences for so long that we forgot all the ways we are really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago,” he said on Carlson’s show Tuesday. “That’s why I am proud to say tonight that I am running for United States president to revive those ideals in this country. I think we need to put merit back into America.”
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Ramaswamy joins former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, who announced her candidacy earlier this month, and former President Donald Trump, who announced his bid late last year, in the race for the GOP nomination.
