Vivek Ramaswamy says there’s a ‘big risk’ the Republican Party needs to worry about heading into November

Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy warned Friday night that the GOP could get “distracted by the Democrats’ shenanigans” and forget to deliver its own message as November approaches.

Ramaswamy appeared on Fox News’ “The Ingraham Angle” to discuss the recent endorsements of the vice president by former President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama on Friday. Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked Ramaswamy if he thought the endorsement would help Harris, and he concluded that it wouldn’t move the needle.

“I don’t think it’s going to help, but Laura, here’s the reality on our side. Kamala Harris is not our risk,” Ramaswamy said. “Keep in mind, regardless of Republican voters, Democratic voters didn’t want her anywhere near the White House. She didn’t get any delegates, she didn’t even get to the Iowa caucuses.”

“I first ran for politics at age 37 and got more delegates for the presidency of the United States than Kamala Harris,” Ramaswamy said.

Ramaswamy went on to stress the “risk” Harris created by allowing the Republican Party to “distract itself,” causing it to “forget” to “deliver” its message.

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“However, it puts us at risk in another way. We get distracted by the shenanigans of the Democrats and forget to convey our own message of who we are and what we really stand for,” Ramaswamy said.

“That seems to me to be the big risk with Kamala. Not that she is convincing, but that all this drama, and sometimes even the misinterpreted version of it, is itself a distraction for us. And that is a distraction that worries me,” Ramaswamy concluded.

Harris posted a video on X (formerly known as Twitter) revealing a call with the Obamas in which they could be heard congratulating the vice president and sharing their support for her as the party’s presumptive new presidential nominee.

“We called to tell you that Michelle and I couldn’t be prouder to support you and do everything we can to help you get through this election and into the Oval Office,” Obama said.

The endorsements from both political leaders come after Barack Obama did not immediately endorse the vice president after Biden ended his re-election campaign Sunday. In a lengthy statement posted on Medium, Barack Obama wrote that he was confident that Democratic leaders would “create a process from which an exceptional candidate will emerge” at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) in August.

However, despite Obama’s decline at the time, Democratic lawmakers and other figures such as former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton publicly supported Harris as the next choice for the nomination.

Harris on Tuesday secured the number of delegates needed to grant her the presumptive title, garnering more than 3,000 delegates, according to the Associated Press.