Musk: US presidential elections: Will appoint Elon Musk as advisor, says Vivek Ramaswamy

NEW DELHI: In an attempt to maintain his surging popularity after the GOP presidential debate, Indian-American Vivek Ramaswamy has now suggested that he will appoint Tesla founder Elon Musk as advisor if he is elected president in 2024.
According to media reports, the Republican presidential candidate said he would like to bring in people with ‘ blank fresh impressions’ to provide guidance in his administration, including billionaire businessman Musk.
“I have enjoyed getting to know Musk better. I expect him to be an interesting adviser of mine because he laid off 75% of the employees at X (formerly Twitter),” Ramaswamy said at a Town Hall in Iowa
The tech multi-millionaire has previously complimented Musk’s management of the social media company ‘X’, and has said he would like to run his administration the same way Musk runs his company.
In an interview to a news channel, Ramaswamy said: “What he (Elon Musk) did at Twitter is a good example of what I want to do to the administrative state”.
“Take out 75% of the dead weight cost, improve the actual experience of what it’s supposed to do,” Ramaswamy said, adding: “He put an X through Twitter, I will put a big X through the administrative state. So, that’s where I am at on common tactics with Elon.”
The bonhomie is flying in both directions as Elon Musk has frequently complimented Ramaswamy and said that he is a “very promising candidate”.
Ramaswamy founded Roivant Sciences in 2014 and led the largest biotech IPOs of 2015 and 2016, eventually resulting in successful clinical trials in multiple disease areas that led to FDA-approved products.
He has also written two books, ‘Nation of Victims: Identity Politics, the Death of Merit, and the Path Back to Excellence’ and ‘Woke, Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam’.
Even after performing well in the first GOP presidential debate, Ramaswamy’s popularity among Republican voters is still in the single digits and far behind former president Donald trump in the republican primary surveys.
The 37-year-old conservative lawmaker was born on August 9, 1985, and was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. His parents migrated to the US from Kerala.
Vivek is the third Indian-American vying to be the Republican presidential candidate alongside Nikki Haley and Hirsh Vardhan Singh.