Vivek Ramaswamy shares 10 commandments of 2024 campaign

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared an inventory of what he referred to as 10 truths to social media Thursday, with references to religion, gender, and capitalism.

Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who is seeking the Republican nomination, shared the beliefs on X, beginning with, “God is actual” and “There are solely two genders” — the latter being a contentious declare by these on the Left.

The listing additionally promotes the significance of fossil fuels, condemns “reverse racism,” defends the function of oldsters in selecting their very own kids’s training, and boasts the U.S. Structure because the “strongest guarantor of freedoms in historical past.”

Whereas many citizens could have began the 2024 presidential marketing campaign unfamiliar with Ramaswamy, some polls have the rising Silicon Valley star within the high three amongst GOP candidates, behind former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

“TRUTH,” Ramaswamy mentioned in all-caps, beginning the put up on X.

His listing adopted:

1. God is actual.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border isn’t any border.
6. Mother and father decide the training of their kids.
7. The nuclear household is the best type of governance recognized to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts individuals up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. authorities, not 4.
10. The U.S. Structure is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in historical past.

Ramaswamy’s been showcasing his listing in current weeks at marketing campaign stops within the early voting states.

He posted the listing forward of an occasion in California and as he continues a barnstorming blitz in a number of states earlier than subsequent week’s first Republican major debate in Wisconsin, which shall be hosted by Fox Information.

Through the occasion on the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum situated in Yorba Linda, Ramaswamy shared particulars of his upbringing and his concern that the American Dream could not exist for additional generations.

“My dad and mom got here to this nation 40 years in the past with no cash in a single era,” he mentioned on the occasion. “I’ve gone on to discovered multi-billion greenback firms and did it whereas marrying my spouse, Apoorva, and elevating our two sons. That’s the American dream, and I’m deeply nervous that that American dream won’t exist for my two sons and their era.”

Ramaswamy additionally mentioned the nation was in “the center of a nationwide identification disaster” the place conventional beliefs of “Religion, patriotism, arduous work, and household… have disappeared solely to get replaced by new secular religions in American life [such as] wokeism, transgenderism, climate-ism, chauvinism, globalism, despair, anxiousness, fentanyl, [and] suicide.”

“These are signs of a deeper void of function and which means in our nation,” he added.

Ramaswamy, 38, additionally mentioned he and different millennials had been “hungry for a trigger.”

“We’re starved for function and which means and identification at a time in our nationwide historical past when the issues that used to fill our void. Religion, patriotism, perception in God, nation. The issues we talked about when these have disappeared. That leaves an ethical vacuum in its wake. And I believe that that presents our alternative, not talking to conservatives, I’m talking to People. That’s our alternative to step up and to fill that void with a imaginative and prescient of what it means to be an American at present,” the candidate mentioned in California.

Ramaswamy will join his other 2024 contenders for the Republican debate at Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee on August 23, 2023.

The talk shall be moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.