GOP presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy did not back down Sunday when questioned about comments he made during a campaign stop in Iowa Friday, calling Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) part of the “modern KKK.”
“I stand by what I said to provoke an open and honest discussion in this country,” Ramaswamy said during an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
I think you answered your own question. He’s playing the Trump bit. Saying extreme things to get news headlines and people talking about him. And it’s working to some extent.
I guess I figured people would see through it by now. I also have a naive expectation that journalists will have some integrity and not fall for this stuff. The media handed Trump the election in 2016, by falling for his stuff, and if Trump is too wrapped up with this trial to see things through and is base starts to falter, it seems like the media and anointed Vivek to take them. He may be more dangerous than Trump, which is hard to believe.