Vivek Ramaswamy says he has “couple great options” in new Trump regime
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Vivek Ramaswamy; photo credit: https://www.vivek2024.com/
Former Indian American Republican presidential candidate turned Trump supporter Vivek Ramaswamy says that he has a “couple great options” before him of a possible role in President-elect Donald Trump’s new administration.
Asked whether he will be part of a second Trump administration, the biotech CEO told ABC’s This Week on Sunday that he was having “high-impact discussions” about his path forward, but was evasive about what exact role he might play.
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“There’s a couple great options on the table,” Ramaswamy said, as the host mentioned both the soon-to-be-vacant Senate seat in Ohio, currently occupied by Vice President-elect JD Vance, as well as the position of Homeland Security director. “I want to have the biggest possible impact on this country,” he added.
Ramaswamy said “uniting the country” is a top priority for Trump. “I think he cares about uniting the country. I think that is Donald Trump’s number one focus.”
“And I do think we have to get back to a place, after this election, after that decisive victory, which I do think was a gift to the country, get back to a place where ordinary Americans who might have voted differently amongst their family members or their colleagues or their neighbors, to be able to get together at the dinner table and say, ‘We’re still Americans at the end of this,’” he added.
Ramaswamy said Trump has “also learned a lot from that first term,” adding that he believes “he’s going into this second term, even to take to new heights some of the things he wasn’t able to accomplish in the first term, which I think is going to be a good thing.”
Trump told his backers early Wednesday morning that the US had given him and his party “a powerful and unprecedented mandate.”
“This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have to have,” he said. “This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.”