Vivek Ramaswamy on Trump’s victory

Washington:

Opining that President-elect Donald Trump’s comeback is America’s comeback, entrepreneur-turned-politician Vivek Ramaswamy said Wednesday that the country deserves a “badass commander-in-chief” right now, and that’s exactly what it got.

Trump, 78, not only won the Nov. 5 presidential election in both the popular and Electoral College votes, but also gained the Republican Party control of the House of Representatives and the Senate.

“Here’s why Donald Trump won by the largest margin of any president in modern history. He’s not an ideologue. He’s not a policy wonk. He’s an American villain. They tried to investigate him, imprison him, kill him (twice). None of that worked, our self-appointed ‘betters’ in the media misunderstood him, underestimated him, doubted him,” Ramaswamy said on Wednesday.

“But not once during this campaign did Trump misunderstand, underestimate, or doubt himself. As everyone at Mar-a-Lago celebrated around him last night, I saw him unfazed, fully convinced that he was exactly where he was destined to be,” he said.

“He is like our nation in that way. We have always believed that it was our manifest destiny to be unique, to be the greatest nation on Earth, to show the world what is possible for humanity to achieve, even when other countries doubted us. Some still do today,” Ramaswamy said.

“But they’re wrong. Trump’s comeback is America’s comeback. Our nation deserves a badass commander-in-chief right now, and that’s exactly what we got. Funny how well our democracy actually works,” the former Republican presidential hopeful said.

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