Ramaswamy ‘against’ any Demo­c­ra­t­ic effort to keep RFK Jr. off bal­lot

For­mer pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Vivek Ramaswamy said he would be against any effort to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr. from the bal­lot.
Ramaswamy gained ground ear­ly in the Repub­li­can pri­ma­ry before falling behind and drop­ping out, endors­ing for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump instead. Despite his back­ing of Trump, Ramaswamy expressed sup­port for Kennedy to appear on the bal­lot, rea­son­ing that it would ben­e­fit Repub­li­cans in Novem­ber.

Vivek Ramaswamy, for­mer 2024 Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date, deliv­ers his speech dur­ing the ral­ly “Winds of Change – Towards a Europe of Coop­er­a­tion” in Rome, Sat­ur­day, March 23, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra Taran­ti­no)

“What we need this Novem­ber is a deci­sive moral man­date, a land­slide of Rea­gan 1980, 1984 pro­por­tions, and I think we have an oppor­tu­ni­ty to do it,” Ramaswamy said. “And if RFK being in this race helps that, you know what, I think that could be a good thing for this co …