Vivek Ramaswamy shares 10 commandments of 2024 campaign, starts with 'God is real,' 'There are two genders'

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shared a list of what he called 10 truths to social media Thursday, with references to faith, gender, and capitalism.

Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur who is seeking the Republican nomination, shared the ideals on X, starting with, "God is real" and "There are only two genders" — the latter being a contentious claim by those on the Left.

The list also promotes the importance of fossil fuels, condemns "reverse racism," defends the role of parents in choosing their own children's education, and boasts the U.S. Constitution as the "strongest guarantor of freedoms in history."

While many voters may have started the 2024 presidential campaign unfamiliar with Ramaswamy, some polls have the rising Silicon Valley star in the top three among GOP candidates, behind former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.

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"TRUTH," Ramaswamy said in all-caps, starting the post on X.

His list followed:

1. God is real.
2. There are two genders.
3. Human flourishing requires fossil fuels.
4. Reverse racism is racism.
5. An open border is no border.
6. Parents determine the education of their children.
7. The nuclear family is the greatest form of governance known to mankind.
8. Capitalism lifts people up from poverty.
9. There are three branches of the U.S. government, not four.
10. The U.S. Constitution is the strongest guarantor of freedoms in history.

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He posted the list following an event in California and as he continues a barnstorming blitz in several states before next week’s first Republican primary debate in Wisconsin, which will be hosted by Fox News.

During the event at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum located in Yorba Linda earlier in the day, Ramaswamy shared details of his upbringing and his concern that the American Dream may not exist for further generations.

"My parents came to this country 40 years ago with no money in a single generation," he said at the event. "I have gone on to found multi-billion dollar companies and did it while marrying my wife, Apoorva, and raising our two sons. That is the American dream, and I am deeply worried that that American dream will not exist for my two sons and their generation."

Ramaswamy also said the country was in "the middle of a national identity crisis" where traditional ideals of "Faith, patriotism, hard work and family… have disappeared only to be replaced by new secular religions in American life [such as] wokeism, transgenderism, climate-ism, chauvinism, globalism, depression, anxiety, fentanyl, [and] suicide."

"These are symptoms of a deeper void of purpose and meaning in our country," he added.

Ramaswamy, 38, also said he and other millennials were "hungry for a cause."

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"We are starved for purpose and meaning and identity at a time in our national history when the things that used to fill our void. Faith, patriotism, belief in God, nation. The things we talked about when those have disappeared. That leaves a moral vacuum in its wake. And I think that that presents our opportunity, not speaking to conservatives, I'm speaking to Americans. That is our opportunity to step up and to fill that void with a vision of what it means to be an American today," the candidate said in California.

Ramaswamy will join his other 2024 contenders for the Republican debate at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee on August 23, 2023. The debate will be moderated by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum.

Bill Barr predicts the two federal cases against Trump will be tried before 2024 election

Former Attorney General Bill Barr offered insight into the four indictments against former President Donald Trump, saying some help feed the narrative that the 45th president is being "victimized" and others are "legitimate."

Trump was indicted by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg over alleged hush money payments to adult film star Stormy Daniels, special counsel Jack Smith in the Mar-a-Lago classified documents case and the Jan. 6 case, as well as Fulton County DA Fani Willis in the Georgia election interference case. 

The former president has repeatedly claimed the indictments against him are part of "election interference" heading into 2024. 

Barr told "Your World" Thursday that the 98-page Georgia indictment is "much too sweeping" and "much too broad." 

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"I'm not happy with the Georgia case," he said. "It's [an] excessive case that is you know, make it look like people are piling on and being excessive to Trump and feed the narrative that he's being victimized here. And I also think there's merit in the point that this is a case that I don't think can be triable before the election. It's just too sprawling."

Willis proposed the trial against Trump and his 18 co-defendants begin on March 4, 2024, the eve of Super Tuesday. 

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Barr, however, said he expects the two federal cases against the 45th president to be tried before the 2024 presidential election. 

"I think the two federal cases will be tried. And they are I think the responsible cases. They're far more focused and I think they can be and will be tried before. The New York case is, you know, obviously a political hit job. And in my opinion, it's a joke," he explained. "I think at the end of the day, that may not be tried. I think it could just be pushed out because I think Bragg would be worried about actually bringing it to trial."

Trump is largely expected to juggle political events with his court appearances in the months leading up to the November election. 

Judge Aileen Cannon set a May 2024 date for the classified documents case and Judge Juan Merchan set a March 2024 date for the hush money case. 

"Well, to some degree, they might accommodate, you know, a few days here and there, but I don't think that that should govern the schedule for pursuing these cases. You know, you don't get immunity for two years in the run-up to an election just by saying, 'Hey, I'm a candidate. You can't try me,'" Barr said of the chances the proposed trial dates shift around.

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"I mean these investigations have been going on for a while. Everyone knew about them even before he announced his candidacy. So if there's a chance to get it resolved before the election, it should be because the American people should know these are crimes that involve or potential crimes involve moral turpitude," he added. 

The former government official continued, saying the federal cases against Trump are "legitimate" and that the former president engaged in "outrageous behavior" with respect to the classified documents case. 

"At the end of the day, at the core of this thing, he engaged, in the case of the documents, in outrageous behavior where anyone would be prosecuted. I don't know of any attorney general who could walk away from it. He's not being prosecuted for having the documents. He's being prosecuted for obstruction to egregious instances [as] alleged," Barr explained. "So I think that's a very simple case. And that should be tried. If the judge is anywhere competent, that can be concluded before the summer." 

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