Elon Musk called GOP presidential contender Vivek Ramaswamy “a really promising candidate” earlier this month. On Friday, Ramaswamy floated Musk as a possible White Home adviser—ought to he beat the chances and win the election, that’s.
In fact, Ramaswamy, a 38-year-old tech entrepreneur, stays a long-shot contender, however on Wednesday he overshadowed Florida governor Ron DeSantis and different rivals on the GOP’s opening presidential major debate. Not current on the stage was former president Donald Trump, who skipped the debate, citing his lead in polls.
At a city corridor in Iowa on Friday, a voter requested Ramaswamy to whom he would flip for steerage if he grew to become U.S. president. That appears a very related query for Ramaswamy given his age—and the actual fact he’s by no means held elected workplace.
“Now isn’t the time for on-the job coaching,” former vp Mike Pence said of Ramaswamy through the debate. “We don’t want to usher in a rookie. We don’t want to usher in folks with out expertise.”
However in reply to the query on Friday, Ramaswamy replied that he needs to usher in folks with “a clean contemporary impression.” Then he named the Tesla CEO, saying, “I’ve loved attending to know higher, Elon Musk not too long ago, I count on him to be an fascinating adviser of mine as a result of he laid off 75% of the staff at Twitter. After which the effectiveness truly went up.”
Chris Kelly, an early investor in Musk’s SpaceX, said last November of the Twitter revamp, “The huge cutbacks and chainsaw that Elon Musk has taken to the corporate doesn’t bode properly for its future.”
However in an interview with Fox Information earlier this month, Ramaswamy mentioned that what Musk did at Twitter “is an efficient instance of what I need to do with the executive state … Take out the 75% of the lifeless weight price, enhance the precise expertise of what it’s presupposed to do.”
Musk, after taking up Twitter final October, slashed jobs and alienated advertisers as he dramatically reshaped the service. He rebranded the service to “X” a month in the past.
Ramaswamy additionally referenced Musk in February, tweeting, “Simply as @elonmusk did at Twitter, as President I’ll launch the ‘state motion recordsdata’ from the federal authorities – exposing each occasion the place the feds pressured corporations to take constitutionally prohibited actions. Roll that log over & see what crawls out. Received’t be fairly.”
Musk commented on an Aug. 17 tweet by Ramaswamy during which the candidate listed some of his views, amongst them “There are two genders,” “reverse racism is racism,” and “The nuclear household is the best type of governance identified to mankind.”
Musk replied, “He states his beliefs clearly.” And whereas calling Ramaswamy a “very promising candidate” earlier this month, Musk shared a video of Tucker Carlson interviewing the candidate. Carlson relaunched his show on Musk’s platform after parting methods with Fox Information earlier this yr.