Tech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential challenger Vivek Ramaswamy called former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0\u201cthe\u00a0George Washington\u00a0of our moment\u201d and labeled the 2024 election a \u201c1776 moment\u201d in history<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ramaswamy, who made an unexpected appearance at the Tuesday rally in Wisconsin, urged Trump supporters to view the former president as a modern-day Founding Father.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDig deep and ask yourself why it is that our founding fathers made the sacrifices they did 250 years ago,\u201d he told the crowd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\nHe continued: \u201cFifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We don\u2019t often ask what became of them. I\u2019m going to tell you what happened to them. Twelve of them had their homes ransacked by the British and burned down to the ground. Five of them were captured by the British and tortured until their deaths. Nine of them died in the Revolutionary War. Three more of them had their own kids die in the Revolutionary War. Many of them died bankrupt because they had their own private property seized before their deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ramaswamy concluded: \u201cThey made those sacrifices in 1776, and I believe today it\u2019s a 1776 moment in 2024, and Donald Trump is the George Washington of our moment. That is what I believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
In the rest of his speech the Republican predicted a shake-up in the Democratic lineup: \u201cI\u2019m not going to sit here railing against\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0because chances are, let\u2019s be honest, he might not be the nominee that we\u2019re running against.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Do you agree? Tech entrepreneur and former Republican presidential challenger Vivek Ramaswamy called former President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0\u201cthe\u00a0George Washington\u00a0of our moment\u201d and labeled the 2024 election a \u201c1776 moment\u201d in history Ramaswamy, who made an unexpected appearance at the Tuesday rally in Wisconsin, urged Trump supporters to view the former president as a modern-day Founding Father. \u201cDig […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[8,1181,885,476,871],"class_list":["post-7002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-washington","tag-trump-rally","tag-vivek-ramaswamy","tag-wisconsin"],"yoast_head":"\n
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