Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said he would have handled the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, “very differently” than former President Donald Trump, but emphasized a distinction between “bad behavior and illegal behavior.”
“I would have handled that situation very differently than Trump did,” Ramaswamy said on This Week with George Stephanopoulos on Sunday morning.Pressed by @GStephanopoulos on Trump’s actions around Jan. 6, GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says, “I would have handled that situation very differently than Trump did.”
His comments come days after saying he would have handled the situation differently than former Vice President Mike Pence, pushing the need for reforms in Congress to secure elections. Speaking on NBC News with Chuck Todd in an interview on Meet the Press, Ramaswamy said he would have pushed for a new federal law that requires states to have a “single-day voting on Election Day.”
Trump, who was indicted for the fourth time this year alongside 18 co-conspirators, recruited slates of fake electors to support his claims that he won the 2020 election over President Joe Biden. Ramaswamy said he “would not have nominated phony slate of electors.”
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