Is Vivek Ramaswamy Trump 2.0?
Posted on AllSides August 31st, 2023
From The Right
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OPINION
In 2016, Donald Trump faced the strongest Republican presidential field in decades.
Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio were brash young champions of the Tea Party that had redefined the GOP in the last two midterms.
Scott Walker was the paladin of the Reaganite right and the governor of a key Midwest battleground.
The Bush wing of the party had a contender in the form of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, while the “libertarian moment” whose arrival The New York Times had heralded in 2014 found its hero in Rand Paul.
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