Vivek Ramaswamy has withdrawn from the Republican primaries for the 2024 US elections. He announced this at the end of the counting of the results of the party’s caucuses in Iowa, the first state in which voters and electorates were able to choose who to run in next year’s presidential elections November 5. The Iowa caucuses were clearly won by former President Donald Trump, who surpassed 51 percent of the vote. The second most voted candidate was Florida governor Ron DeSantis, with 21.2 percent, followed by Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina, with 19.1 percent. Ramaswamy, however, obtained only 7.7 percent. After retiring he announced that he will support Trump.
Ramaswamy is 38 years old and the son of two Indian immigrants. He has had a rather brilliant career as a manager and entrepreneur, especially in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors. As of 2022 he has become famous in the United States as an “anti woke” activist. He is the author of a book called Woke, Inc. (it could be translated as Woke Spa) in which he argues that environmental, social and racial concerns are an unnecessary obstacle to economic growth and free enterprise. In the early stages of the campaign in view of the start of the primaries he had attracted much attention for his extremist positions, in some ways very close to those of Trump, but he had not managed to impose himself on his contenders.