Vivek Ramaswamy commanded the stand out moments during the third GOP presidential debate in Miami on Wednesday night. Following the event, the dominant conversation concerned Ronna McDaniel’s stewardship of the Republican National Committee, a failed tenure raised by Ramaswamy in his first comments of the night.
“We’ve become a party of losers. Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, [the] red wave that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023,” Ramaswamy said. “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 yield my time to you.”
Asked how he would approach the Israel-Hamas conflict, Ramaswamy broke with the hawkish positions of Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, the latter who has claimed “Israel doesn’t need America, America needs Israel”. Ramaswamy, instead, said the American homeland would be his focus.
“The founding vision of Israel was based on the idea that they don’t want to depend on anybody else’s sympathy or direction in defending themselves,” Ramaswamy said.
“So what I would tell [Prime Minister Benjamin Neyanyahu] is that Israel has the right and the responsibility to defend itself; I would tell him to smoke those terrorists on his southern border, and as President of the United States I’ll be smoking the terrorists on our southern border. That’s his responsibility, this is our responsibility,” the entrepreneur continued.
“I want to be careful to avoid making the mistakes [of] the neocon establishment of the past,” he explained. “Nikki Haley… stepped down from her time at the UN bankrupt or in debt… then she becomes a military contractor, she joins the board of Boeing and otherwise, and is now a multi-millionaire.”
“So I think that’s wrong when Republicans do it or Democrats do it. That’s the choice we face: Do you want a leader from a different generation who’s going to put this country first, or do you want Dick Cheney in three-inch heels? In which case, we’ve got two of ’em on this stage.”
Florida Governor DeSantis has grown increasingly sensitive over allegations he wears lifts to increase his height, accusing his critics of having “foot fetishes”.
The choice should be clear: We can elect a president who will keep us out of World War III or we can elect a Dick Cheney in 3-inch heels. Because there are two of them on stage with me tonight. @RonDeSantis @NikkiHaley pic.twitter.com/i21U4tErmU
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 9, 2023
