GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said Friday he would deport the children of undocumented immigrants with their families, despite them already being U.S. citizens.
“There are legally contested questions under the 14th Amendment of whether the child of an illegal immigrant is indeed a child who enjoys birthright citizenship or not,” Ramaswamy said after a town hall in Iowa.
Ramaswamy is not the only GOP candidate to question U.S. citizenship rules. Former President Trump announced in late May that on his first day back in office, he would seek to end birthright citizenship by way of an executive order.
This guy will literally say anything if he thinks it will get him what he wants.
He has a couple of very specific jobs for the Republicans.
He’s the token minority so that the GOP can point and say; “SEE WE’RE NOT RACIST, WE HAVE THIS GUY IN THE PRIMARY.”
He’s moving the crazy line further out. He’s saying more and more outlandish things, so that the other insane assholes that are running, seem positively nice in comparison. Even though, compared to actual sentiment of the public at large, they are beyond deranged.
I am sure this asshole is well paid by the GOP.
I think he and his advisors are severely underestimating the entrenched racism of their base, especially the far right wing that he is trying to court. Oh yeah, and he’s also a Harvard and Yale educated lawyer who attended school on scholarship from a Soros. And he’s Hindu, and a vegetarian.
Take any GOP position on any topic. Now distort that (which alone is probably bad enough as is) until it’s the most ridiculously ludicrous extreme position you could possibly take. Now imagine it being said by a badly written cartoon villan. That’s the position that this guy takes on anything. I’m not even 100% convinced he’s a believer in his own bullshit. His entire campaign seems to be focused on catering almost exclusively to the ones who are so far to the right that even the MAGA nuts give them the side-eye.
I swear the guy would gut and eat a live puppy right in front of the 5 year old that it belonged to if it meant it would get him four extra votes from a family in Montana or something.
I would write this off as little more than a twisted publicity stunt rather than a campaign meant to be taken seriously, but the last time I said that was Trump when he came down that escalator in 2015.
Come to think of it, starting a Presidential bid by coming down an escalator is a very odd way to make an entrance. It’s like arriving on a blimp.
Actually, the entrance itself I don’t have a problem with. When you’re entering the political world out of nowhere, you need to make an attention-grabbing entrance. Trump did that in spades.
The problem is that he immediately followed that up with the most racist announcement of a presidential run in the country’s history, and just got worse from there.
Which was literally copy paste from my racist extended families’ Facebook posts. Which is why they fell in fucking Lust after him (he’s just like me frfr)
Duh, he’s a Republican.
Saying bullshit has a funny way of becoming meaning bullshit, just look at trump
I’m sure he’s under GOP contract to say these things