What Does Vivek Ramaswamy Believe?
Policy, platform, and opinions. Updated periodically.
On abortion:
“Unborn life is life…I am unapologetically pro-life.” @ Iowa State Fair, August 2023
“I think that’s a reasonable bill for him to have signed” on Ron DeSantis’s 6 week abortion ban. @ Fox News, April 2023
Q: Would you sign further abortion restrictions into federal law? A: “I would not, but I am pro-life.” @ NPR, April 2023
“But a federal ban violates the constitutional principle that led us to actually overturn Roe v. Wade, which is why I would not sign a federal abortion ban.” @ NPR, April 2023
“I remain open minded…of the legal basis of the federal government…to codify a federal abortion ban into law.” @ YAFCon, July 2023
“For years, I was an opponent of Roe v. Wade. I think it was constitutionally wrongly decided. I think Dobbs was correct to overturn it because the federal government has no business here.” @ NPR, April 2023
On the legitimacy of the 2020 election, January 6th, & government distrust:
“The Hunter Biden laptop story and its systematic suppression…So look at the polling data. On the aftermath and before and after. There are more than enough people. It's not even by a super small margin that say they would have changed their vote had they been exposed to that information before that election. The fact is that was systematically suppressed in what was probably the single greatest form of election interference in American history.” @ David Pakman Show, 1:05, July 2023
“Here’s the TRUTH: Vivek is always skeptical of the government. We have a government that lies to us more than it tells the TRUTH – the TRUTH about the origin of Covid, the TRUTH about the Hunter Biden laptop, the TRUTH about government-tech censorship, the TRUTH about the Epstein client list.” @ Vivek2024.com
“Pardon defendants of politicized prosecutions: Trump, Mackey, and peaceful Jan 6 protesters” @ Vivek2024.com
On Trump
“He was an effective president, no doubt about it. I think he was a good president with whom I agree on most policy questions.” @ David Pakman Show, 7:46, July 2023
On immigration
Q: “You said you want to deport the entire family unit of undocumented immigrants?” A: “Yes” @ NBC, September 2023
“If we’ve had the largest influx of illegals into this country in American history, we will have the largest mass deportation in American history.” “Our message to every illegal immigrant is also this, we will return to your country of origin. Not because you’re all bad people, but because you broke the law.” @ MSG, 3:26, October 2024
“Use the military, including drones, to secure our southern border” @ Vivek2024.com
On Israel/Palestine
“Israel is a good friend of the United States. I would love to learn from Israel in so many respects, not just their border defenses and their missile defense capabilities, but a strong national identity.” @ NBC, September 2023
“Most importantly, he won’t cut aid to Israel until Israel tells the U.S. that it no longer needs the aid. That’s what true friends do: they’re honest with each other.” @ Vivek2024.com
“By the end of Vivek’s first term, the US-Israel relationship will be deeper and stronger than ever because it won’t be a client relationship, it will be a true friendship. The centerpiece of Vivek’s Middle East policy in Year 1 will be to lead “Abraham Accords 2.0” which will fully integrate Israel into the Middle East economy – by adding Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar, and Indonesia to the pact which was one of President Trump’s crowning foreign policy achievements.” @ Vivek2024.com
On LGBTQ issues:
“Vivek is the first candidate who had the courage to speak TRUTH about transgenderism: it’s a mental health disorder.” @ Vivek2024.com
“A lot of the left said for years that the sex of person that you're attracted to is hard wired on the day you're born. That was the core premise of the rights movement. And yet now they say your the biological sex is completely fluid over the course of your life. Those two things cannot make sense at the same time unless you subscribe to some cult, and that is what this LGBTQIA+ movement has become. It's not about logic. It's a cult.” @ Fox, May 2023
“Here’s my deal with this LGBTQIA+, especially the trans cult. OK, dress how you want, behave how you want as an adult, live your life freely, but leave our kids alone and do not demand that we change our language or the way we live our lives.” @ Fox, May 2023
On affirmative action & DEI:
“Make political expression a civil right & end unlawful DEI indoctrination” @ Vivek2024.com
“End affirmative action: repeal Lyndon Johnson’s executive order 11246” @ Vivek2024.com
On the environment:
“Drill, frack & burn coal: abandon the climate cult & unshackle nuclear energy” @ Vivek2024.com
On the economy:
“Incentivize trade schools over hollow college degrees (sorry, gender studies majors)” @ Vivek2024.com
“Limit the U.S. Fed’s scope: stabilize the dollar & nothing more” @ Vivek2024.com
On labor:
“Eliminate federal employee unions: repeal JFK’s executive order 10988” @ Vivek2024.com
“Shut down toxic government agencies: Dept of Education, FBI, IRS, and more (and rebuild from scratch when required)” @ Vivek2024.com
“Move >75% of federal employees out of Washington D.C. & end pro-lazy ‘remote work’ option” @ Vivek2024.com
On Covid/masking:
“Vivek is adamantly against mask mandates.” @ Vivek2024.com
“When that same government (Fauci et al.) said in early 2020 that we SHOULDN’T be buying masks, he naturally went in the opposite direction and said: you know what, I just might go out and get some. He also made a flippant comment saying that the Bernie Sanders’ proposal to make masks available to all who wanted them was kind of sensible. Vivek’s views on that changed as the facts changed, and he was honest about it. (Side note: find just *one* Republican presidential candidate who didn’t say at least something totally cringeworthy about Covid back in 2020…we’ll wait. At least Vivek has the guts to admit
it).” @ Vivek2024.com“Hold the CCP accountable for Covid-19: use all financial levers” @ Vivek2024.com
Miscellaneous:
“Ban addictive social media under age 16 & gender confusion “care” for minors” @ Vivek2024.com
“Vivek supports decriminalizing ayahuasca, ketamine, and psilocybin therapies for veterans who suffer from PTSD” @ Vivek2024.com
“Publish the Jeffrey Epstein client list: government should not use police power to shield select elites” @ Vivek2024.com
“I would support a constitutional amendment…that would raise the voting age to 25 but still allow you to vote at age 18 if you either serve for six months in the military or a first responder role, or else, even if you don't serve, if you pass the same civics test that every immigrant has to pass in order to become a citizen of this country.” @ NPR, April 2023
Why? “I think we have a loss of civic pride in our country. I think people, young people included, do not value a country that they simply inherit. I think we value a country that we have a stake in building. And I think that asking a young person - asking any citizen - to know something about the country before voting, I think, is a perfectly reasonable condition.” @ NPR, April 2023
