Former 2024 Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy stirred up the crowd at Tuesday night’s Wisconsin rally in Racine by calling former President Donald Trump “the George Washington of our moment” and calling the 2024 election a “1776 moment” in history
Ramaswamy, who made an unexpected appearance, urged Trump supporters to view the former president as a modern-day Founding Father, drawing an apparent comparison between the persecution of Washington and other revolutionaries by the British with the legal woes of the former president and his allies.
The rally was Trump’s first visit to Wisconsin since a Manhattan jury found him guilty on 34 felony charges related to a hush money payment to pornstar Stephanie Clifford, professionally known as strong>Stormy Daniels.
“Dig deep and ask yourself why it is that our founding fathers made the sacrifices they did 250 years ago,” he told the crowd.
He continued: “Fifty-six men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We don’t often ask what became of them. I’m going to tell you what happened to them. Twelve of them had their homes ransacked by the British and burned down to the ground. Five of them were captured by the British and tortured until their deaths. Nine of them died in the Revolutionary War. Three more of them had their own kids die in the Revolutionary War. Many of them died bankrupt because they had their own private property seized before their deaths.
Ramaswamy concluded: “They made those sacrifices in 1776, and I believe today it’s a 1776 moment in 2024, and Donald Trump is the George Washington of our moment. That is what I believe.”
In the rest of his speech the Republican predicted a shake-up in the Democratic lineup: “I’m not going to sit here railing against Joe Biden because chances are, let’s be honest, he might not be the nominee that we’re running against.”
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