“The [Republican National Committee] says they want to reach younger voters & new audiences? Well, that’s how you do it,” he says.
GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said that the Republican Party should host its next GOP debate on X, formerly Twitter, with a moderator similar to Tucker Carlson in a bid to get massive exposure to younger audiences.
“If there’s a January GOP debate, it should be hosted on X, not on cable TV, moderated by someone like @TuckerCarlson who might just ask questions that primary voters actually care about,” Ramaswamy wrote on X Friday.
If there’s a January GOP debate, it should be hosted on X, not on cable TV, moderated by a someone like @TuckerCarlson who might just ask questions that primary voters actually care about. The RNC says they want to reach younger voters & new audiences? Well, that’s how you do it.
— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) November 24, 2023
“The [Republican National Committee] says they want to reach younger voters & new audiences? Well, that’s how you do it.”
Ramaswamy criticized GOP leadership at the last primary debate, which came on the heels of special elections in Virginia which saw broad Republican losses.
Specifically, Ramaswamy called on RNC chairwoman Ronna McDaniel to “come on stage” and resign publicly.
“We’ve become a party of losers at the end of the day,” Ramaswamy said. “Since Ronna McDaniel took over as chairwoman of the RNC in 2017, we have lost 2018, 2020, 2022, no red wave, that never came. We got trounced last night in 2023.”
? BREAKING: Vivek Ramaswamy destroys Ronna Romney McDaniel, demand she come on stage and RESIGN, says Joe Rogan and Elon Musk should be hosting the debate instead of hacks like Kristen Welker who pushed the Russian Collusion Hoax ? pic.twitter.com/hxcBxGrdPN
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) November 9, 2023
Instead, McDaniel appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” the next day to defend her record, which did not go over well.
“I have a radical idea for the Republican Party: We need to win elections,” Ramaswamy said at the second GOP primary debate. “And part of how we win elections is reaching the next generation of young Americans where they are.”
“So while the Democrats are running rampant reaching the next generation 3-to-1, there’s exactly one person in the Republican Party that talks a big game about reaching young people, and that’s me,” he added.
The next GOP debate is scheduled for December 6 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, with former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly as one of the moderators.
GOP frontrunner, former President Donald Trump, has declined the invite to participate.
