New Delhi: Indian American entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican aspirant for the 2024 US presidential elections, said he would vote for former President Donald Trump if the party nominates the latter. Speaking to ABC news, he also said that if he is elected to power, he intends to pardon Trump, who is facing an array of legal challenges.
“If Donald Trump's the nominee I will support him, and if I am the president, yes, I will pardon him because that will help reunite the country. But it's not the most important thing I'm going to do as the next president. It is the table stakes for moving this country forward,” the 38-year-old Indian American told ABC News.
Notably, Ramaswamy is the only Republican presidential hopeful to openly endorse Trump.
“My bottom line is that I will vote for the person who I think is best positioned to move this country forward. I do not think that's Joe Biden. I do not think that is whichever other puppet, Kamala Harris or anybody else, that they roll out after Joe Biden,” Ramaswamy said at the talk show.
He further said that he might disagree with his Republican counterparts over a lot of issues, but anyone of them “would be more effective than Biden or Harris in leading the country,” ABC News quoted him as saying.
Earlier in the day, Ramaswamy had said that he shares a deep alignment with Trump on the US policy matters and there are “small” difference between them.
“We have some of our areas of differences, but they’re small. By and large, we are the two ‘America First’ candidates in this race, everybody else embraces the neo-con (neo-conservative) foreign policy view. So, I think we are deeply aligned on policies, 90 plus per cent of the way. There are some small differences,” Ramaswamy told Fox News.
He also said that Trump has laid a “very good foundation” as the US President, and he wishes to take the ‘America First’ agenda ahead.