{"id":590,"date":"2023-02-22T16:53:17","date_gmt":"2023-02-22T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=590"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T15:12:08","slug":"anti-woke-candidate-announces-presidential-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=590","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Anti-Woke\u2019 Candidate Announces Presidential Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/vivek-ramaswamy\/\">https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/vivek-ramaswamy\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1068\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/Collage-Maker-22-Feb-2023-11.49-AM.jpg\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Vivek Ramaswamy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Global Disinformation Index\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A new Republican candidate threw his hat into the presidential race late Tuesday, focusing his campaign on an \u201canti-woke\u201d agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Vivek Ramaswamy, an author, activist, and a multimillionaire businessman, announced his candidacy on Tucker Carlson tonight and with a string of Tweets<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re in the middle of a national identity crisis,\u201d Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter. \u201cFaith, patriotism &amp; hard work have disappeared. Wokeism, climatism &amp; gender ideology have replaced them. We hunger for purpose yet cannot answer what it means to be an American. We long for that answer. That\u2019s why I\u2019m running for President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy said \u201cending affirmative action\u201d would be a top priority for him upon taking office and named China as the top foreign policy threat to the U.S. and called for going after the Mexican cartels. He emphasized the importance of meritocracy, free speech, and self-governance on Carlson\u2019s program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople who we elect, make them actually run the government rather than this cancerous federal bureaucracy,\u201d he said. \u201cThat\u2019s going to be the heart of my message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy\u2019s announcement comes after Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor and presidential Cabinet member, announced earlier this month she is running for president.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, 51, served as ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration. Trump also announced last year he is running for president.<\/p>\n<p>Ramaswamy lives in Columbus, Ohio with his family. He has written two books, \u201cWoke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America\u2019s Social Justice Scam\u201d as well as his second book, \u201cNation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve celebrated our \u2018diversity\u2019 so much that we forgot all the ways we\u2019re really the same as Americans, bound by ideals that united a divided, headstrong group of people 250 years ago,\u201d Ramaswamy wrote on Twitter. \u201cI believe deep in my bones those ideals still exist. I\u2019m running for President to revive them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Casey Harper<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecentersquare.com\/national\/article_31167958-b2bd-11ed-93e5-3f254ece125a.html?a\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nReposted with permission<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/vivek-ramaswamy\/ A new Republican candidate threw his hat into the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":593,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions\/593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}