Vivek Ramaswamy & Grant Cardone- Speaking TRUTH. Resonates with Voters
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00:00 of the world seem very skeptical of it.
00:01 And my experience for that was traveling the country
00:03 over the last three years, speaking the truth.
00:07 I mean, that's what "Woke Inc." my book was all about.
00:10 That is what, you know, "Nation of Victims,"
00:12 "Capitalist Punishment," I've written three books
00:13 in the last two years,
00:15 been to a majority of states in this country.
00:18 And I didn't expect to run for president.
00:21 I started thinking about it when people would come up to me
00:24 at the end of those events and demand that I consider it,
00:27 say, "Hey, listen, I really need you to think about
00:30 running for president in 2024."
00:31 And if a number of people who you don't know,
00:33 you're in different states across the country,
00:35 tell you that, it's hard to shake off.
00:37 And if it weren't for that,
00:38 I wouldn't have taken this idea seriously.
00:40 So I think what's resonating with people,
00:42 I think it is the fact that I really am not attached
00:45 to a particular result here.
00:47 My goal is to speak the truth at every step.
00:51 And I would rather lose the election
00:53 than to veer from my beliefs.
00:56 But I think that it turns out that might just be
00:58 the winning political strategy, actually.
01:01 And you have a lot of people in politics
01:03 who end up becoming super PAC puppets.
01:06 And I don't say that disparagingly against them.
01:08 It's just how the system works.
01:09 - So what does that mean?
01:10 What is a super PAC?
01:11 'Cause I'm not, I don't know the game here.
01:15 - Yeah, I mean, it's not a term
01:16 that you'll hear in politics either.
01:18 It's kind of one that I made up,
01:19 but it kind of describes what's going on,
01:21 which is there's a mega donor class
01:23 that determines who should and shouldn't run.
01:27 They're the gatekeepers.
01:28 Typically, even who gets in the race,
01:29 you take a tin can, hat in hand, ask for permission to run.
01:33 That comes with strings attached
01:34 with what you can say on the hard issues.
01:37 On the easy stuff, everybody's pretty aligned.
01:39 Who can have a pissing contest on who gets to,
01:43 who says the most anti-woke thing they can say.
01:45 In a Republican primary, that's par for course,
01:48 and that's fine.
01:49 And I wrote the book on wokeness, right?
01:51 I wrote "Woke Inc."
01:52 So I share most of these convictions
01:54 that others have adopted.
01:55 But on the hard issues, right?
01:57 In terms of how do we actually end a war in Ukraine
02:00 that we should not be in, which becomes a no-win war,
02:03 that we're on track to create another Vietnam.
02:05 Or the truth about what happened on January 6th,
02:08 about bank bailouts,
02:10 about getting to the heart of what we will do as a nation
02:14 to move forward beyond a politicized persecution
02:17 of a former president of the United States
02:18 that happens to be running against people like me
02:21 in this race, that's complicated.
02:23 We gotta roll up our sleeves on the climate cult,
02:25 on electric vehicle subsidies.
02:27 I mean, let's get to the tough stuff.
02:30 And I think that that's one where other candidates
02:33 have a hard time if there are consequences,
02:37 if they're beholden to somebody else, and I'm not.
02:40 And I think that's something
02:41 that's a competitive advantage for me.
02:42 - You're saying because they're connected to the super PAC.
02:45 They can't hit the Ukraine issue, the January 6th,
02:48 the bank bailouts, the persecution.
02:50 If you're dependent on mega donors
02:52 for buttering your bread,
02:54 you're restrained in what you can say.