With the spotlight for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination squarely on former President Donald Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who has yet to declare his candidacy, Vivek Ramaswamy told Newsmax on Monday night he likes the spot his campaign is in, even if some polls show him trailing Trump and DeSantis by wide margins.

“I look at where I am in this race is about where Trump was when he came down the escalator in June of 2015,” Ramaswamy told “Eric Bolling The Balance.” “I was in Iowa just last weekend, and I can tell you Republicans are hungry for an outsider, and I think we need an outsider to actually get the job done in the White House.

“If you want to dismantle the administrative state, the managerial bureaucracy that actually runs the show today, it’s going to have to be done by somebody who wasn’t a product of that same political system.”

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