Viviek Ramaswamy, a wealthy biotech businessman and investor and author of “Woke, Inc.”, has entered the Republican presidential race.
In a video released on Tuesday evening, Ramaswamy officially launched his candidacy by criticizing what he described as a “national identity crisis”, which he says is caused by a left-wing ideology that has replaced “faith, patriotism and hard work” by “a new secularism”. religions like COVID-ism, climatology and gender ideology”.
“We have become so obsessed with our diversity and our differences that we have forgotten all the ways in which we are equal as Americans,” he comments in the video.
Born in Ohio, Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, founded a biotechnology company and later became a partner in an investment fund. He is the author of the books “Woke, Inc.” and “Nation of Victims”, and gained prestige in conservative circles for his criticism of the environmental, social and corporate governance movement which aims to promote socially responsible investing.
Ramaswamy joins what is expected to be a broad spectrum of Republican candidates that already includes former President Donald Trump and his former UN ambassador Nikki Haley.