Vivek Ramaswamy used his opening remarks at Wednesday’s GOP presidential debate by calling for the resignation of Republican National Committee chairwoman Ronna McDaniel.
Ramaswamy, like the other candidates on the stage, had been asked to make the case for why he should be selected to be the 2024 GOP nominee, but he instead turned his ire on the debate’s own moderators and McDaniel.
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“I think there’s something deeper going on in the Republican Party here, and I am upset about what happened last night,” the entrepreneur said, referring to Tuesday’s off-year elections. “We’ve become a party of losers at the end of the day. Is it cancer in the Republican establishment?”
“I speak the truth. I mean, since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022 — no red wave, that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023,” he continued. “And I think that we have to have accountability in our party. For that matter, Ronna, if you want to come on stage tonight, you want to look the GOP voters in the eye and tell them you resign, I will turn over my — yield my time to you.”
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Ramaswamy continued his opening remarks by going after NBC’s debate moderators, Lester Holt, Kristen Welker, and Hugh Hewitt, claiming that a debate moderated by “Tucker Carlson, Joe Rogan, and Elon Musk” would yield a much higher viewership and attract independent voters to the party.
He particularly criticized Welker for pushing the “Trump-Russia collusion hoax” and other “Hillary Clinton made up disinformation” during her time at the network.
