Conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announces GOP presidential bid

Conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for president in 2024 in an interview with Fox News on Tuesday. 

Ramaswamy, 37, who founded a health care company called Roivant in 2014, told Tucker Carlson that people in the country have forgotten the ways “we’re really just the same as Americans, bound by a common set of ideals.” 

“That’s why I’m proud to say tonight that I’m running for United States president to revive those ideals in this country, those basic rules of the road,” he said. 

Ramaswamy said in a video posted on his Twitter profile as he announced his candidacy in the Fox interview that the country is in the midst of an identity crisis. 

In his interview and the campaign launch video, Ramaswamy criticized a focus on diversity from “the woke left” and denounced policies that left-leaning politicians have taken to address situations like the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change.