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Governor DeSantis goes off on Vivek Ramaswamy AGAIN.
Says Vivek had no business being on the debate stage in the 2024 GOP primary and there needs to be a better vetting process.
“Vivek showed up and he's debating on the stage. Why is he on the stage? What did he do to be on that stage?
Like, nothing.
Obviously, his business was this Alzheimer's drug that didn't work. He bought it. It failed two clinical trials. His mom, I guess as a doctor, she said, oh, I'm going to do a phase three study. He goes out and pumps it. Stock goes up. I mean, NO ONE got better off this.
And I'm just thinking, like, okay. And then he was out there doing all this stuff and he shows up. And it's like, okay, like, fine, but where's your leadership? What have you done to be able to do it? We've got to make sure we do a better job of vetting some of this stuff.
If you just tell them what they want to hear. Just say the most outlandish things and somehow you're going to get support? That is not the way it is. When you're electing a leader and a president, you're electing the leader of the free world.
There should come with a little bit of weightiness to that. There should be a certain amount of gravitas that's brought to that.
But you can just get on media, say the right things. It doesn't matter if you can do it. It doesn't matter if you have a track record. You can get some traction doing that. That, I don't think, is a good part of the process at all.”View quoted post on X
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"I will make a decision, sometime in early January." –Sen. Chris Van Hollen when asked if he's running for president.View quoted post on X
