Vivek Hopes To Move ‘America First’ To The Next Level In 2024: Watch

CONCORD, NH — If elected to be president in 2024, Vivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy will break several barriers: He will be the youngest president ever at 38. He will be the first Hindu and the first Indian American president. He would be the first millennial elected. And, with a net value of somewhere in the neighborhood of $630 million, he would be one of the wealthiest presidents ever, too.

But the candidate, who visited Concord and met with a few dozen city Republicans and independents earlier this month, is focused on reviving the nation. He said the current state of the body politic had “a black hole” that runs deep and allows “the poison” of drug abuse, distraction, and other issues to “fill the void.” Ramaswamy said, “Faith, patriotism, hard work, family; these things have disappeared only to be replaced by wokeism, transgenderism, climatism, covidism.”

Instead, Ramaswamy, said by building a national identity, the country would be able to dilute these poisons to irrelevance. He said he would move “American first,” the policies championed by former President Donald Trump, forward to the next level.

“Further than Trump did,” he added, “by doing it on first principles and moral authority, not just vengeance and grievance.”

But first, Ramaswamy said, voters need to find out what it means to be an American — preserving free speech, reviving the spirit, the rule of law, self-governance, not aristocracy. He added, “We have celebrated our diversity for far too long. I think it’s time to start celebrating and remembering what unites us across that diversity. E pluribus unum means from many, one. That is what the American dream is all about. That’s why I have been able to live the full American dream.”

Ramaswamy said certain ideals allowed anyone to succeed from their hard work regardless of their appearance or where they came from. He proved that with his own success — a son of immigrants from India who grew up in Ohio, went to Harvard and Yale, and founded investment and pharmaceutical companies, earning hundreds of millions of dollars.

At Concord's Red Blazer Restaurant, Ramaswamy posed for pictures and signed copies of his books, “Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam” and “Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.”

For more information, visit Vivek2024.com.

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