Key Highlights
- Ramaswamy spoke to Fox News Digital shortly after arriving at the Phoenix Convention Center on Friday, and said he had already met several people here who told him they were energized to join him at the conference."Funny enough, and I often like to do this when I travel west, I went for a hike earlier today -- to what's called Camelback Mountain, and we saw tons of young people who are going to be here tonight that were getting their outdoor time, so I got to talk to a lot of them," he said.
- "I would say the mood is a combination of enthusiastic and determined, but with a sober sentimentality as well.
- It's clear that a lot of these young people were, I mean just like me and the rest of us, affected by Charlie's death, and they're hungry for direction." CONSERVATIVES NEED TO EMBRACE ‘FUSION’ OF POPULISM, TOP LEADER SAYS, CALLING AMFEST SCENES ARE ‘ENCOURAGING’ Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at a campaign rally.
- (Anna Moneymaker/) Many of the young conservatives he met appeared to want to find the direction the conservative movement and TPUSA will go following Kirk’s death. In Ohio, where he is seeking to succeed term-limited moderate Republican Mike DeWine, Ramaswamy stressed that even though Ohio has been reliably red, he isn't taking the race for granted.
- Republicans are reeling from a string of losses from Florida to Pennsylvania just weeks ago. VIVEK RAMASWAMY CRITICIZES POCKETS OF 'ONLINE RIGHT' FIXATED ON HERITAGE IN TURNING POINT ADDRESS Video "I think we’ve got to worry less about just defeating the left -- because we did that last year.
