EXCLUSIVE — Presidential candidate VivekGRamaswamy admitted he made false claims about his voting history after the dcexaminer confronted the 2024 Republican contender with state election records.
Ramaswamy notably asserted in two interviews released on June 30 and July 12 that he did not vote until 2020, when he backed former President Donald Trump over now-President Joe Biden. However, the wealthy entrepreneur actually first voted in the 2004 presidential election for the late Libertarian nominee Michael Badnarik, according to Ramaswamy as well as Ohio database records in Butler and Franklin counties.
Ramaswamy's remarks come after he responded,"Yup," during a July Scripps News interview upon the journalist stating,"I was surprised to hear that you had not voted until 2020, until the 2020 presidential election. So, you voted for the first time. Now, it's a little bit over two years. You're running for president. That's a pretty big jump to just go from voting, now 2 1/2 years later, to run.
"And actually, that's what I wrote this book about. I am not holding myself out as some sort of model. I'm actually offering myself as a self-reflection of my journey as a citizen, to whom this country has given much," Ramaswamy replied, pointing in the room over to his 2021 book, Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam.
Badnarik, the 2004 Libertarian nominee that Ramaswamy voted for, said while running he would"veto any legislation restricting a woman's right to choose" and"opposes government control over abortion," according to his archived campaign website. The Libertarian, who died in 2022, also supported ending"immigration restrictions for peaceful individuals who come to America to work, study and live" and flirted with conspiracies related to the Sept.
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