Former Republican primary challenger Vivek Ramaswamy recently warned Republicans of the “hard realities” of criticizing Vice President Kamala Harris as she campaigns for her election bid following President Joe Biden’s dropping out of the race. The Biden-Harris administration has faced increased scrutiny in light of these recent developments.
“The bottom line is, I think what’s happened is a lot of Republicans were caught by surprise after the convention,” Ramaswamy said in a statement to Fox News Digital late last week. “That’s resulted in some reactive steps that I don’t think all make sense. And I think they’re actually hurting us.” Ramaswamy offered a different playbook that the GOP should take moving forward.
He continued, “I think this makes absolutely zero sense and here’s why.” He further explained, “Kamala Harris is unproven as a political leader, let alone as the U.S. president. Why put her in a position as the U.S. president with all the benefits of incumbency? Oval Office addresses, God forbid, to even change policy or foreign policy, to be able to create circumstances that make her look better. That’s one of the advantages that many incumbent presidents, the sad truth is, have used throughout American history.”
Ramaswamy asserted that calling on Biden to step down is “another example” of conservatives being “reactive,” which only results in “hurting our chances rather than helping us.” The former Republican primary candidate added, “It’s not going to be good for America and it’s not going to be good for Republican electoral prospects if Kamala Harris is the President of the United States of America for even a short period of time, for even a minute.”
The accomplished businessman stated, “I don’t think that’s something we should want, and it doesn’t make sense and that’s why I called it out.” Ramaswamy continued, “So look, this is the other category of criticisms I see coming, even from some conservatives, saying that she locked up too many people while she was a prosecutor,” he said. “This is the wrong line of attack. It doesn’t make sense.“
Ramaswamy went on to criticize Harris’ record on rule of law, stating, “In fact, one of the images that Kamala Harris is trying to project is that she’s somehow going to be a law-and-order presidential candidate. I find that laughable. Look at under the Democratic regime, including policies that she has supported, clear the jails, defund the police. That’s resulted in a wave of rampant crime in this country.”
He added, “People in the United States of America, across the aisle and both camps, are dead set against this wave of crime. But if against that backdrop, Republicans are criticizing her for locking too many people up, it doesn’t make sense because it legitimizes the otherwise laughable claim that she’s a law-and-order candidate.“
Watch Ramaswamy’s comments below:
Ramaswamy maintained that Republican should focus on explaining to voters what they plan to offer in the future. “The main point is what voters really care about is the future,” he said. “What are we actually going to deliver? And the more we focus on bickering on that past political missteps or whatever from the Democratic side, the more small-minded we’re going to be seen as being.
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