Someone is doing a REALLY deep dive on Republican Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy and has dug through, as painful as it sounds, episodes of a Chris Matthews show from back in 2004.
Chris Matthews had a youth-centered show and young voters got the chance to ask Democrat Presidential candidates questions.
This question asked by Vivek Ramaswamy to notorious race-baiter Al Sharpton, is particularly interesting, just listen to the question:
Young Vivek, an 18-year-old freshman at Harvard, asked Al Sharpton who, like Ramaswamy now, has never held office why he should get his vote:
Vivek: Of all the Democratic candidates out there, why should I vote for the one with the least political experience.
Okay, 20 years ago is a long time. I will not hold it against Vivek if, at a young age, he was a Democrat or if he supported liberal policies. People change. But this question is just absolutely perfect.
Why vote for someone who has no political experience?
That's the same question EVERYONE has about Ramaswamy today. He's a businessman, he's never held office, much like Trump in '16, so how can we know he's for real on what he says?
At least the man himself understood the irony here!
There's just a certain irony about today's hot new Republican asking a question to a Democrat, Al freaking Sharpton, about electability as someone with no experience.
I think Sharpton, to his credit, gives a very solid answer. And I think Vivek has remembered this moment and applied it to his political campaign.
To be fair to Ramaswamy, at least his question was far better than Mayor Pete's when he was given an opportunity on the same show (yes this happened):
He sounds like a Dana Carvey character.
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