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PALM BEACH, Fla. – Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, a health care and tech sector entrepreneur, conservative commentator, and crusader in the culture wars, is worth at least half a billion dollars.
Ramaswamy, who declared his candidacy for president less than two weeks ago in a live interview on the Fox News Channel, says he’s “making a big personal investment” in his campaign.
He said his bid for the White House is “going to be lifted by the bottom-up grassroots donations – by the one-dollar donations, by the five-dollar donations, by the twenty-dollar donations.”
And his campaign says that the candidate is averaging roughly 900 contributions per day.
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Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at a donor conference hosted by the conservative group the Club for Growth, on March 4, 2023, in Palm Beach, Florida (Fox News) (Fox News)
“The thing that’s actually going to cause us to go the distance… is going to be the bottom up, small-dollar donations,” Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital on Saturday.
He emphasized, “I think that’s a good thing because one of the things that I didn’t have to do – thankfully because of the success that I’ve had, is to ask a bunch of donors for permission to run… I’m not going to be beholden to anybody.”
RAMASAMY VOWS TO MAKE ‘MEANINGFUL INVESTMENT’ IN HIS CAMPAIGN
Ramaswamy was interviewed on the sidelines of a donor retreat hosted by the politically influential fiscal conservative group the Club for Growth, which was held at an exclusive beachside resort in this upscale southeastern Florida seaside community.
But Ramaswamy wasn’t asking for contributions from the donors, but rather some support for his message.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy takes questions at town hall style campaign event, on Feb. 22, 2023 in Manchester, New Hampshire (Fox News )
The 37-year-old Ramaswamy, author of “Woke,…
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