GOP 2024 Debate: Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy is 'rookie', says former Vice Prez Pence

IndianAmerican Vivek Ramaswamy the youngest Presidential candidate from the Republican Party grabbed eyes throughout the first 2024 GOP debate held at Milwaukee on August 23 The tech entrepreneur faced criticism from fellow candidates Ramaswamy however said that those remarks were a badge of honour stated reportsFormer Vice President Mike Pence former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Florida Governor Ron DeSantis South Carolina Senator Tim Scott and North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum were on the stage apart from RamaswamyThe 38yearold IndianAmerican candidate has been garnering support by positioning himself as an outsider to politics like Trump During the debate he said that he is the only candidate who has not been boughtCriticism against RamaswamyFormer Vice President Pence launched a scathing attack against Ramaswamy calling him a rookie We dont need to bring in a rookie Pence said Drawing attention to Ramaswamys recent statement saying a president cant do everything Pence said The president of the USA has to confront every crisis facing the country while alluding to his experienceFormer New Jersey Governor Chris Christie too took a shot at Ramaswamy and called him a guy who sounds like ChatGPT and labelled him amateur Barack Obama Christie 60 on Wednesday said Hold on Ive had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like ChatGPT His remarks came after Ramaswamy said that Climate Change is a hoaxThe other IndianAmerican in the fray Nikki Haley also criticised him She accused him of supporting Americas foreign adversaries and abandoning the allies after his comment on RussoUkraine war He reportedly said he would not support Ukraine in the war against RussiaWhat did Ramaswamy sayIm the only person on the stage who isnt bought and paid for so I can say this The climate change agenda is a hoax And the reality is the anticarbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy And so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate a report in ANI quoted Ramaswamy sayingUnlock American energy drill frack burn coal embrace nuclear Put people back to work by no longer paying them more to stay at home Reform the US Fed stabilise the US dollar and go to war The only war that I will declare as US president will be the war on the federal administrative state that is the source of those toxic regulations acting like a wet blanket on the economy he addedHe later said Ill tell you Im not a politician Youre right about that Im an entrepreneur My parents came to this country with no money 40 years ago I have gone on to found multibillion dollar companies That is the American dream And I am genuinely worried that that American dream will not exist for our two sons and their generation unless we do something about itWho is Vivek RamaswamyRamaswamy a native of Southwest Ohio was born to immigrant parents His mother was a geriatric psychiatrist and his father an engineer at General Electric His parents moved to the US from KeralaRamaswamy and two other IndianAmericans Haley amp Hirsh Vardhan Singh will be up against former President Donald Trump in the primaries in January 2024Ramaswamy founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016 eventually culminating in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDAapproved products according to his bio posted on his websiteWith inputs from Agencies