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As the campaign race for the US Presidential elections picks up pace, there’s a new man in town who’s creating all the buzz — 38 year old Republican hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy. Ramaswamy has hit the spotlight after the recent first presidential debate among Republican candidates where he got the second most air time of any candidate.  Read the full story here: https://gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds/understanding-the-vivek-ramaswamy-phenomenon-in-america-1.97857778  See more videos at https://gulfnews.com/videos Read more Gulf News stories here: https://bit.ly/2HLJ2km  Subscribe to Gulf News on YouTube and watch more of our videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/GulfNewsTV  #UAEnews #DonaldTrump #USElections

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00:00There's a new Republican candidate who's creating all the buzz in town, and that is 38-year-old

00:09Indian-American biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. Yes, the man who's being called

00:15a more extreme, younger version of Donald Trump is suddenly shooting up in polls after

00:20the first Republican presidential debate amongst Republican voters. And he's at number three

00:25in many of these polls now, and at number two in some others. He's still way behind

00:30Donald Trump, who is of course the real deal. But experts are now trying to understand what

00:34this means for the Republican campaign as they head into the presidential elections

00:39next year. Because as I said, Vivek Ramaswamy is a more extreme version of Donald Trump.

00:44He doesn't believe in climate change. He believes that there are only two genders. He's talked

00:49about cutting a deal with Vladimir Putin. He said that college admissions should be

00:54based on physical fitness tests. He's alluded to some kind of government involvement in

00:58the 9-11 terror attacks, which created a huge controversy in the U.S., amongst many, many

01:03other claims that he has made that have been fact-checked by the U.S. media and often found

01:07to be misleading or downright false. What it does tell us is that the core Republican

01:14base that is still with Donald Trump does actually seem to call shots within the Republican

01:19party. Because most of the other candidates haven't really been able to take on Trump.

01:24Some of them are embracing Trump, the way Vivek Ramaswamy is. Others are not really

01:29going all out to criticize him. But they're not really able to convince voters then why

01:33they should prefer them over Donald Trump. Experts also warn, however, that someone like

01:40Vivek Ramaswamy, who's trying to mimic Trump in so many ways, may not get very far. Because

01:45people have the real deal in Donald Trump. Why would they vote for a B version or a Trump-lite

01:51when they have Donald Trump himself? So the next few weeks and months are going to be

01:55interesting to see whether Vivek Ramaswamy actually lasts in the long haul.

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