Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy revealed at a campaign stop on Friday that his “ideal” choice for vice president would be someone like Elon Musk.
“I’m looking for executive people,” Ramaswamy said after a voter in Corydon, Iowa, asked if he could find enough cabinet picks who would agree “with you that your legs won’t be cut off.”
“Not in the Washington, DC pool,” replied the 38-year-old presidential candidate. “If you look outside the pool, there are 300 million mostly good people in this country … So, a lot of them are going to be outsiders. I mean, an ideal vice president would be someone like an Elon Musk. Now, he wasn’t born in the country, so he couldn’t be, you know, but that’s the mold.”
Musk cannot run for vice president or president because he is not a natural-born citizen of the US Musk was born in South Africa.
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Vivek Ramaswamy said he is likely to pick outsiders for his cabinet. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Ramaswamy has previously said he would consider Musk as a White House adviser.
Earlier in Friday’s town hall, Ramaswamy said he learned from former President Trump that it’s important to surround yourself with some outsiders in the White House.
“It’s helpful to have someone with a complete and utter disregard for the norms of Washington, DC,” he said. “Let’s take a jackhammer to it. It’s all fake. Most of it is made up.”
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Ramaswamy said his ideal vice president would be someone like Elon Musk. (Getty Images)
At the end of October, Ramaswamy announced that Musk, who is the CEO of Telsa, SpaceX and owns X, formerly Twitter, attended one of his fundraisers in Northern California.
“He showed up late at night and we had a conversation,” he confirmed to Reuters at the time.”
Ramaswamy added, “He and I are increasingly alone in this world as free speech absolutists and I think different from a lot of people in both parties. I think that’s something he sees eye to eye on. ”
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Ramaswamy’s stop in Corydon was one of several campaign stops in Iowa on Friday, including Chariton and Indianola.
