Ramaswamy advises GOP not to fall for ‘personality-driven disputes’ in election

Former 2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy cautioned the Republican Party to avoid basing its presidential ticket on personality and instead showcase to voters what their vision for the future is.

Ramaswamy, who dropped his presidential campaign in January and endorsed former President Donald Trump , criticized the Democratic Party for its “stubborn refusal” to discuss the policies that Vice President Kamala Harris plans to run on in this election. He argued that this provides the Trump campaign a potential advantage it can capitalize on to “handily” win this November.

“The more we make this about our own alternative vision, about what we actually stand for, the more likely we’re going to win this election handily,” Ramaswamy said on Fox News’s Jesse Watters Primetime. “I think they’re tempting us, they’re goading us to go in the direction of the personality-driven disputes. I think that’s a losing strategy for us, I think it’s going to be a losing strategy for them, as long as we don’t take the bait.”

The billionaire also advised the Republican Party not to adopt a “victimhood” mindset and instead embrace a “victorious” message to voters. He explained how he teaches his sons how everyone is responsible for whether they can achieve their goals and that Republicans would “do well to take a dose of that.”

Ramaswamy revealed that he will be at the Democratic National Convention for its final day on Thursday, where “we’re going to have some fun.” Harris is scheduled to accept the Democratic Party's presidential nomination on Thursday night, which is when she will deliver her DNC speech.

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A Harris campaign source said the vice president’s speech will pitch a “New Way Forward,” which will describe an optimistic agenda that provides economic opportunity and safeguards freedoms. She is also expected to discuss how she was the daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, as well as her career as an attorney and a politician.

Trump, meanwhile, has been conducting several rallies in battleground states during the DNC, including a stop at the border in Arizona, a state he lost to President Joe Biden in 2020.