EXCLUSIVE: From 'nerdy' Ohio school kid raised by academic Indian parents to an anti-woke entrepreneur running for 大統領: Vivek Ramaswamy 明らかにする／漏らすs how he was a 十分な-time dad during COVID - and his （選挙などの）運動をする schedule that 含むs 5:30 am tennis

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Vivek Ramaswamy's 直面する lit up when his three-year-old son Karthik, celebrating his birthday, called him to say goodnight.

The entrepreneur father-of-two was all smiles at the end of another day of his first （選挙などの）運動をする swing through Iowa as a newly-造幣局d 共和国の／共和党の 大統領の 候補者.

The 37-year-old best-selling author, hedge 基金 multi-millionaire and son of Indian 移民，移住（する）s wants to 直す／買収する，八百長をする America's 国家の 身元 危機 by ending the '世俗的な 宗教' of 'woke-ism'.

Wearing a white button-負かす／撃墜する with the sleeves rolled to his 肘s, Ramaswamy was all 商売／仕事 ? that is, until his wife and sons' 直面するs showed up on his phone.

He had just a few moments to eat some bites of mac-and-cheese, fried mushrooms and 負かす／撃墜する a 国会 Coke before speaking with an enthusiastic （人が）群がる waiting to get his 署名 in their copy of his 調書をとる／予約する Nation of 犠牲者s.?

Aside from his 企て，努力，提案 to 取り組む 'wokeism' and the question of what it means to be an American,?Ramaswamy 明らかにする／漏らすd he is also a tennis 'fanatic' and was a 十分な-time dad for a few months during the COVID pandemic so his wife could work in a New York hospital.

Biotech and hedge 基金 multi-millionaire Vivek Ramaswamy sat 負かす／撃墜する for an interview with DailyMail.com on Thursday during his first swing through Iowa after 公式に 発表するing his 大統領の 企て，努力，提案?

Ramaswamy paused the interview to take an 後継の call from his son Karthik, whose 3rd birthday was on Thursday. The 候補者's wife and two sons were meant to join him in Iowa from Ohio, but had to 取り消す their 計画（する）s 予定 to 天候

詳細（に述べる）ing to DailyMail.com his 見通し for the next year in an interview in Iowa on Thursday, Ramaswamy said that he wants to lay out the 'how' of 演説（する）／住所ing 問題／発行するs 疫病／悩ますing the nation.?

He said that 2024 can be the year when Americans decide 'who' is best to take on that 使節団.?

The self-述べるd 'nerdy kid'?didn't mince words when speaking about Trump, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that while he was able to identify 問題／発行するs, he feels that the former 大統領，／社長 wasn't able to '配達する' on meaningful change.

'The first thing that I'm a big fan of doing is giving people credit where credit is 予定,' Ramaswamy said earlier in the day in Iowa when speaking with a room 十分な of 20 商売／仕事 leaders.

'大統領 Trump is 現実に a friend,' he 追加するd. 'If I'm 存在 really honest, I probably wouldn't have thought of doing what I'm doing now if he hadn't 首尾よく done what he did in 2015 and 2016 ? （機の）カム as a political 部外者, shook it up, was able to say things that other 共和国の／共和党の 候補者s 辞退するd or were unable to say.'

'Got to give credit where credit is 予定. He was the OG of 'America First' ? and, for what it's w orth, I'm an unapologetic 'American First' 保守的な, too,' Ramaswamy said. 'But the question is ? Where do we go from here? To put America first, we first have to rediscover what America is.'

Some of the cornerstones of Ramaswamy's 協議事項 含むs eradicating affirmative 活動／戦闘, 課すing the same 政府-level 罰s to 私的な （独立の）存在s for censoring political speech and 固く結び付けるing political 表現 as a civil 権利.

Much more 利益／興味d in discussing 政策 and politics than his personal life, the 創立者 of biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences and co-創立者 of 努力する／競う 資産 管理／経営 said that in his 限られた／立憲的な 封鎖するs of 解放する／自由な time he enjoys playing tennis.

Ramaswamy woke up 早期に Friday morning in Iowa to play tennis at 5:30 a.m.

'I'm a tennis fanatic,' he told DailyMail.com.

While the native Ohioan says he doesn't have much time for other leisure activities, he is a 'big Bengals fan'.

'業績／成就 was my ticket to get ahead. It's 深く，強烈に personal to me,' he said in his interview with DailyMail.com

Ramaswamy 迎える／歓迎するs 支持者s at the Machine Shed restaurant in?Urbandale, Iowa ? just miles from downtown Des Moines

Ramaswamy received a call from his wife who said their son, Karthik, 手配中の，お尋ね者 to say goodnight

The 候補者's 直面する lit-up when he received the call from his family, asking for a few moments to speak with them before 再開するing the interview?

Ramaswamy is pictured with his wife?Apoorva Tewari Ramaswamy and their two sons Karthik, 3, (left) and Arjun, 7 months, (権利). The 候補者 株d that the two lived apart for three months at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic when their eldest son was only three weeks old because his wife was working in a hospital

Ramaswamy is the son of Indian 移民，移住（する） parents and has one younger brother. He went to Harvard for undergraduate and got a JD from Yale 法律 School

Ramaswamy said some of the cornerstones of his 壇・綱領・公約 含む eradicating affirmative 活動／戦闘, 課すing 罰s to 私的な （独立の）存在s for censoring poli tical speech and 固く結び付けるing political 表現 as a civil 権利. He spoke with a room of 支持者s waiting for their copy of his 調書をとる／予約する to be 調印するd at the Machine Shed restaurant on the 郊外s of Des Moines, Iowa

A room 十分な of several dozen 2024 最初の／主要な 投票者s gathered at the Machine Shed restaurant in Urbandale, Iowa ? just a few miles from downtown Des Moines ? to hear from the lesser-known 候補者 who jumped into the race just behind Trump and his once-外交官／大使 to the U.N. Nikki Haley.

Iowa is still the first-in-the-nation 最初の／主要な contest 明言する／公表する for 共和国の／共和党のs and has for １０年間s 始める，決める the トン for how the race for the party's 指名／任命 will play out.

民主党員s spent the last few years 公式に switching their first 最初の／主要な contest 明言する／公表する to South Carolina.

Ramaswamy's wife and two sons were supposed to be in Iowa with him this week as his eldest son Karthik turned three.?

While winter 天候 妨げるd his family from joining him, the 候補者's son made a ビデオ call to his father just before his 発言／述べるs to say good night and get one last 'Happy Birthday' before bed.

The toddler 手配中の，お尋ね者 to be shown the people gathered around during the interview, which Ramaswamy did with the gleaming smile of a proud father.

He also has a seven-month-old son 指名するd Arjun.

When asked about balancing life with a 大統領の run, Ramaswamy said his wife Apoorva, a laryngologist and throat 外科医 専攻するing in swallowing disorders, '借りがあるs me.'

Just before the onset of the pandemic, Apoorva Tewari Ramaswamy gave birth to the couple's first son Karthik.?

Just weeks into her maternity leave, Ramaswamy said that his wife felt the calling to help because New York Presbyterian was understaffed 予定 to the onset of the coronavirus 危機.

Since the 脅し the first 緊張する of coronavirus 提起する／ポーズをとるd to newborns and 幼児s, the couple decided to live 分かれて from each other for three months, starting when their son was いっそう少なく than four weeks old ? and Ramaswamy went part time with his work to take on the 役割 of 十分な-time dad.

Ramaswamy spent the entire day traveling through Iowa, stopping at Accumold to speak with 商売／仕事 leaders in?Ankeny, Iowa

Ramaswamy took some questions from those gathered at the Accumold factory and offices and talked about how he would を取り引きする 結局の 指名する-calling from Donald Trump?

'That was reality,' Ramaswamy told DailyMail.com when sitting 負かす／撃墜する to speak at Machine Shed before his 発言／述べるs. 'We're in it as a family.'

'We support each other in what we need to do at the 権利 points in our lives,' he 追加するd. 'I 肉親，親類d of 見解（をとる） this run as doing that now in the different direction.'

Apoorva did get COVID-19 at one point, and so did her 外科医 father ? who was 入院させるd for his 事例／患者.

Ramaswamy said that his parents immigrated to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs from India because they 手配中の，お尋ね者 to get 接近 to better education, both for themselves and for their 未来 children.

The 候補者 says that his しつけ in Ohio led him to develop his 'ideology of 長所.'

'A meritocracy is an ideology to which I subscribe with bone-深い 有罪の判決,' Ramaswamy said.

'I was sort of a nerdy kid ? academically inclined,' he 認める. 'Academics was a major 焦点（を合わせる） of our family 世帯. And they used to say if you're going to stand out, you might 同様に be 優れた.'

'It's sort of a corny phrase that my parents （機の）カム up with, bu t there's 現実に a lot of truth to it,' he 反映するd.

'業績／成就 was my ticket to get ahead. It's 深く，強烈に personal to me.'

Ramaswamy's parents emigrated to the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs from Vadakkencherry, Palakkad, Kerala, India. His father worked for General Electric as an engineer and 特許 弁護士／代理人／検事 while his mother worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.

Flipping the script on 自由主義のs who （人命などを）奪う，主張する 保守的なs and white people are inherently 人種差別主義者, Ramaswamy said the 実施 of 'woke' 政策s that put preference on some races is 燃料ing 人種差別主義 in the country.

'If you're 存在 called a 人種差別主義者 today, chances are you're probably doing something 権利,' Ramaswamy said. 'Because the only 推論する／理由 you're 存在 called a 人種差別主義者 is because they want to chase you away from whatever it is you were trying to 遂行する.'

'I think racial 'woke-ism' is one that is likely to 原因（となる） 深い-seated 国家の 分割 by 原因（となる）ing us to 見解（をとる） each other as nothing more than the genetically 相続するd 特徴 we 相続するd on the day we're born,' he continued.

'I think there's no better way to 燃料 anti-黒人／ボイコット 人種差別主義 in America than to take something away from a different race on the basis of the color of their 肌. It's not just an anti-white, anti-Asian 人種差別主義 point ? it's that, but it's more than that. It's 燃料ing a new wave of anti-黒人／ボイコット 人種差別主義 that wouldn't 存在する but for the racial preference 政策s that we've created.'

Ramaswamy was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1985. He was the high school class valedictorian in 2003 and was 階級d 国家的に as a junior tennis player.

The 候補者 卒業生（する）d summa cum 称讃する from Harvard in 2007 with a degree in biology. He went on to receive a JD from Yale 法律 School in 2013.

Ramaswamy says that academic excellence and 業績／成就 was always important in his home growing up in Cincinnati, Ohio?

'I was sort of a nerdy kid ? academically inclined,' said Ramaswamy (pictured as a child on 権利). 'Academics was a major 焦点（を合わせる） of our family 世帯. And they used to say if you're going to stand out, you might 同様に be 優れた. It's sort of a corny phrase that my parents （機の）カム up with, but there's 現実に a lot of truth to it'

Ramaswamy says his （選挙などの）運動をする will 焦点（を合わせる） on eradicating affirmative 活動／戦闘 in America, punishing 私的な companies and （独立の）存在s for censoring political speech and making political 表現 a civil 権利 in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs.

The 候補者 said affirmative 活動／戦闘 hasn't been ended by any other 大統領，／社長 because they '恐れる political （激しい）反発.'

'I don't have that 恐れる of political （激しい）反発. I'm going to do it,' Ramaswamy 公約するd.

The 2024 大統領の （選挙などの）運動をする field is 形態／調整ing up to be （人が）群がるd - and 憶測 is 渦巻くing that the 候補者s will look to out-anti-woke one another.

One thing sure to 始める，決める Ramaswamy apart from the 残り／休憩（する） of the 結局の （人が）群がる is his age. He is just two years over the 合法的な age to run for 大統領，／社長 ? and he will likely remain the youngest 候補者 in the running.?

He 同意しないs, however, with Nikki Haley's 提案 that there should be a 義務的な competency 実験（する） for 政治家，政治屋s in 連邦の office over the age of 75.

'I 同意しない that anyone other than the 投票者s should decide who gets to run this country,' Ramaswamy said.

When asked if there should be any litmus 実験（する）s for 大統領／総裁などの地位, Ramaswamy said: 'As 極小の as possible.'

'John Fetterman should not be in the U.S. 上院 ? and under her 提案 he wouldn't have been 支配するd to a competency 実験（する）,' he explained, 言及／関連ing the freshman Pennsylvania 上院議員 who had a 一打／打撃 の直前に 存在 elected and who is now 任意に 認める to Walter Reed 医療の 中心 for inpatient care for 不景気.

'There are people who are above th e age of 75 who can be perfectly competent to run the country,' Ramaswamy 追加するd.

'I think it was sort of a cheap 選択 of the age 75 because Donald Trump happens to be 76, whose one of our competitors,' he continued. 'I'm 説 this as probably the youngest 候補者 in this race ? if I had to guess it's going to stay that way ? I don't want to 除去する 競争 based on 独断的な 最高の，を越す-負かす／撃墜する 支配するs.'

'Was 75 arbitrarily chosen? Would she have said 70 if Donald Trump was 71?' he questioned.

Ramaswamy appeared to take a 隠すd swipe at Florida 知事 Ron DeSantis during the wide-範囲ing interview with DailyMail.com, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that 明言する／公表する leaders are good 'foot 兵士s' in the fight against woke-ism, but （人命などを）奪う，主張するing they 港／避難所't 献身的な themselves to fighting and understanding the 問題／発行する at the level to which he does.

'It's really in vogue for 共和国の／共和党のs to be talking about woke-ism,' Ramaswamy said with a トン of 失望／欲求不満. 'I don't think they - you find somebody who understands these 問題／発行するs at the level of granularity that I do and I will be thrilled, because I have been trying to educate this ? the base of leadership for a long time, and they're trying their best.'

'At the 明言する／公表する-level, that's 罰金 ? they can be good foot 兵士s in this 戦う／戦い,' he 追加するd. 'But if you're talking about a 国家の 身元 復活, I think you need somebody who understands this 深く，強烈に and is 現実に 権力を与えるd and unafraid to do something about it.'

Ramaswamy says he is the 初めの anti-woke 候補者, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that he knows more than any other 候補者 about the granularity of what needs to be done to 演説（する）／住所 the rising 問題／発行する in the U.S.?

DeSantis has famously been touting his 'anti-woke' 協議事項 in Florida, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that his leadership created a 明言する／公表する where 'woke goes to die.'

While the Florida 知事 has not yet 発表するd a run for 大統領，／社長, he has started traveling the country まっただ中に whispers that he will 開始する a 最初の／主要な 企て，努力，提案.

While not a 広範囲にわたって known 指名する, Ramaswamy has written three 調書をとる／予約するs ? one not yet 解放（する）d ? which earned him 国家の attention and has 与える／捧げるd to making him an icon within 保守的な circles.

In August 2021 he published Woke, Inc.: Inside 法人組織の／企業の America's Social 司法（官） Scam, which became an instant New York Times bestseller.

He published his second 調書をとる／予約する, Nation of 犠牲者s: 身元 Politics, the Death of 長所, and the Path 支援する to Excellence, in September 2022.

Ramaswamy's third 調書をとる／予約する is coming out in April 2023. He said he 調印するd on to 令状 the 調書をとる／予約する before deciding to run for 大統領，／社長 and said that all of the content he has put out in the past should not be considered part of his 公式の／役人 壇・綱領・公約.

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