Tech and healthcare mogul Vivek Ramaswamy announces 2024 presidential campaign

Conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy on Tuesday evening announced his candidacy for president in 2024, entering the field alongside former President Donald Trump and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

Ramaswamy announced his candidacy live on "Tucker Carlson Tonight." The entrepreneur is the son of Indian immigrants and has long been an advocate of meritocratic policies and an opponent of progressive initiatives such as critical race theory. The New Yorker magazine named him "the C.E.O. of Anti-Woke, Inc." in 2022.

"We are in the middle of this national identity crisis, Tucker, where we have celebrated our difference for so long that we forgot all the ways we are really just the same, as Americans bound by a common set of ideals that set this nation into motion 250 years ago," he said. "I think we need to put 'merit' back into 'America' in every spirit of our lives."

Ramaswamy intends to kick off the campaign with a tour of New Hampshire, one of the critical early primary states for Republicans, Fox News reported.

A graduate of both Harvard and Yale, Ramaswamy has founded multiple companies, including Roivant Sciences and Strive Asset Management. He stepped down from his position with Roivant before publishing "Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam" in 2021.

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