Pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy dropped out of the Republican Party presidential primary race on Monday night after polling in the low single digits and endorsed former President Donald Trump, who he has aggressively championed on the campaign trail.
Ramaswamy made the announcement while speaking to a group of supporters in Iowa, saying that there was no path forward for him to become president.
As he said that he announced that he was suspending his campaign and endorsing Trump, his audience went completely silent with one person shouting, “Don’t do it!”
Ramaswamy said that he and Trump were the only “America First” candidates who were in the race which comes after the former president attacked him on social media over the week, saying that Ramaswamy was “not MAGA.”
“Vivek started his campaign as a great supporter, ‘the best President in generations,’…
