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Former President Donald J. Trump attacked Vivek Ramaswamy, who’s most intently aligned with him within the race for the Republican nomination, accusing the rich entrepreneur of partaking in “deceitful marketing campaign tips.”
“A vote for Vivek is a vote for the ‘different aspect’ — don’t get duped by this,” Mr. Trump mentioned on social media, including that “Vivek just isn’t MAGA.”
An hour earlier, a senior adviser for Mr. Trump, Chris LaCivita, additionally attacked Mr. Ramaswamy on social media as a “fraud” in response to a photograph exhibiting supporters of Mr. Ramaswamy carrying shirts displaying Mr. Trump’s mug shot that mentioned “Save Trump, vote Vivek.”
The assaults from Mr. Trump and certainly one of his high aides in fast succession recommend that the Trump marketing campaign has intentionally shifted towards attacking Mr. Ramaswamy within the closing days earlier than Monday’s Iowa caucuses.
In a video posted to social media that seemed to be an oblique response to the assaults, Mr. Ramaswamy provided effusive reward for Mr. Trump, although he argued in conspiratorial phrases that “the system” would hold Mr. Trump out of the White House and as a substitute elect former Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina, whom Mr. Ramaswamy referred to as a “puppet.”
Mr. Ramaswamy, who ostensibly is working towards Mr. Trump regardless of having been the previous president’s most enthusiastic defender on the marketing campaign path, has lengthy been in a peculiar entente with the first’s front-runner. Though Mr. Trump has gleefully mocked his opponents within the race on social media, he has held his hearth towards Mr. Ramaswamy and even praised him as a loyal supporter.
The change in technique from Mr. Trump might mirror a calculation from his marketing campaign that Mr. Ramaswamy, who’s in a distant fourth place within the polls in Iowa, is taking some help — nevertheless small — from his marketing campaign. Mr. Trump is hoping for an overwhelming win in Iowa to close out his strongest rivals and show that he has already all however secured the nomination.
