He portrays himself as the next level of Trump. Trump 2.0. – I will try to talk about what is going on in this country, without being angry. But we see that several secular cult movements are growing simultaneously in the United States. Vivek Ramaswamy stands in front of a hundred people who listen with interest. We are at “The 45 Club”, a Republican meeting room on the main street in the Norwegian-American small-town idyll of Decorah in Iowa. Many of those who are here are actually Trump supporters. The venue is decorated with Trump flags and posters. These voters are the first to vote in next year’s nomination election. On January 15, the people of Iowa will decide who they want to be their presidential candidate. Photo: Meira Valtonen / news Anti-woke – Race-wokeism is one of the movements that is growing. It says your identity is based on skin color. Another is the gender cult that says you can choose which gender you want to be, says Ramaswamy. He believes that woke movements around race and gender dominate society. He thinks the Democrats just want brown people to talk about race. He himself goes against the flow. – I am a different brown voice. -Furthermore, the civil rights movement in the 1960s fought for people not to be judged on the basis of their skin colour. Wokism does just that, he says. Photo: Meira Valtonen / news Vivek Ramaswamy is a businessman and billionaire like Trump. His parents came to the United States from India and settled in Ohio. Now he’s using some of the money he’s made from the companies he’s started to travel around Iowa to meet with as many voters as possible. Posters for everyone who wants Photo: Meira Valtonen / news Break through in the debate In the first Republican debate in August, he got a lot of attention with his energy and his interruptions. Now he is in fourth place in most opinion polls, behind Trump, Ron DeSantis and quite equal with Nikki Haley. Vivek Ramaswamy explains to news how he wants to bring the Americans together again. – This country must be run by the citizens, not by technocrats in Washington. I actually call them autocrats. In addition to the match against woke, he is busy with the match against Washington. news’s interview with Ramaswamy Ramaswamy’s truth “The truth for USA’s patriots” is the title of a leaflet distributed to the audience. These ten points constitute the Truth, Ramaswamy believes Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news It contains ten commandments, and the first reads as follows: God exists There are only two sexes Fossil fuel is necessary for humanity to develop Reverse racism is also racism Vivek Ramaswamy ( 38): Born August 9, 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio Married to a doctor, two children. The parents came to the United States from India, the father is an engineer and the mother a psychiatrist. Educated in finance and law at Harvard and Yale. Has started several companies and, according to Forbes, is worth NOK 10 billion. Started in 2022 Strive Asset Management, an investment company with an anti-Woke profile. Believes green and other socially responsible investments are the biggest threat to American society. Has written the book Woke Inc: Inside America’s social justice Scam – Hope he is the answer Wanda Hemesath says that she is 98 percent Norwegian. She makes poor man’s for Christmas, although it is difficult to roll them thin enough. Politically, she is with Trump. – We really liked everything Trump did, but he is controversial and I’m not sure it can be him. That is why we are here to learn more about Ramaswamy. We hope he is the answer. Wanda and Ron Hemesath feel reassured by Ramaswamy Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news 20-year-old Samuel Scheffler also has Norwegian ancestry. He has come to meet his first presidential candidate. – I don’t quite know what I believe in yet, but I like that Ramaswamy is so clear and sure of what he means. I’m curious how he came up with that. Samuel is concerned with family and likes that one of Ramaswamy’s is about how important the nuclear family is. But he himself is more positive about queers. – I have friends and family who are gay, so what he says about them was a little different, says Scheffler. Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news Must have a breakthrough to stop Trump When Ramaswamy and six other presidential candidates meet for a debate outside Los Angeles in California on Thursday night, it will be without Trump. He instead travels to Michigan to meet with striking auto workers and hold a rally in competing primetime for the debate. Experts believe that one of the other candidates must have a real breakthrough tonight. Because there are only three months left until the voters here in Iowa are the first to vote in the nomination elections. And the seven need to be fewer if they are to be able to challenge Trump, many believe. – Haley can win In Iowa, many voters we speak to are skeptical about whether Trump can manage to become the candidate with everything he stands for. One of them is Dennis Campbell. He a real American big farmer. His very farm is called Crystal Creek Enterprises and has been run by the family for six generations. Dennis Campbell fears that Trump will lose if he becomes the candidate. Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news Tractors and combine harvesters are parked in many large warehouses. Today he has lent one of them to Nikki Haley. Trump’s former UN ambassador, who is one of the other candidates he believes in. What do you think about Trump? – I am a fan of Trump for what he was able to achieve despite all the opposition he faced. After all, they don’t want changes in Washington DC. – But we need to find people that more people in the middle can vote for. Nikki Haley is such a candidate, he believes. Dennis Campbell says goodbye to Nikki Haley Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news Don’t dare break with Trump Haley did well in the previous debate and has risen in the polls since. The tension in the night’s debate is linked, among other things, to whether Florida Governor Ron De Santis will be able to take a leadership position among those who are not Trump. If he doesn’t, Haley can break through. One of those present wants to know why she is always keen to attract the most ardent Trump supporters. Why she doesn’t distance herself more from them. Haley gives a politician’s answer: Nikki Haley talks agriculture and Trump in Great Mound, Iowa. Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news – I like a lot of what Trump did as president, but I don’t agree with him 100 percent of the time. It’s a bit like how I feel with my husband, she says. Loads and bursts with Ukraine In two areas, however, she disagrees with her former boss: – I think the Trump administrations spent public money like drunk sailors, and I think January 6 was a terrible day. The other area where Haley strongly disagrees with both Trump and Ramaswamy is about the support for the war in Ukraine. – I think it is extremely wrong to say that the Ukraine war is a territorial conflict. We must continue to send weapons. We spend less of our GDP than 11 European countries on the war in Ukraine, she says. Nikki Haley promises voters to be honest no matter what they ask. But she does not dare to completely distance herself from her former boss in the White House. Photo: Tove Bjørgaas / news
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