Trump declared the 38-year-old biotech entrepreneur the winner of the GOP debate.
I honestly thought that was pretty racist.” Alas, Greene misread Christie’s comment; the former New Jersey governor compared Ramaswamy to Obama because in describing himself as a “skinny guy with a funny last name,” Ramaswamy literally cribbed a one-liner Obama used during the 2004 Democratic National Convention. Nearly 10 years ago, Obama introduced himself as “a skinny kid with a funny name.”
“The last person…who stood in the middle of the stage and said, ‘What’s a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here?’ was Barack Obama,” Christie lobbed at Ramaswamy on the debate stage. “And I’m afraid we’re dealing with the same type of amateur.” For what it’s worth, the Obama jab was relatively mild compared to another thrown by Christie.
For all the love Ramaswamy got from Trump and others after the debate, those onstage with him were clearlycalled him a “rookie”; South Carolina senatortold Ramaswamy he has “no foreign policy experience, and it shows.” Doing his best Trump imitation, Ramaswamy hit right back, accusing Christie of traveling to Ukraine to worship his “pope,”and telling Haley that she would have a “future career on the boards of Lockheed and Raytheon.
Shtick or not, Ramaswamy’s combativeness—not to mention his fealty to Trump and extreme positions—clearly got viewers’ attention. He
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