FLASHBACK: 18-Year-Old Vivek Ramaswamy Asking Democrat Presidential Candidate About Lacking Political Experience

A 20-year clip of GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy shows the 38-year-old political newcomer questioning a former Democrat presidential candidate about lack of political experience.

In the video, Ramaswamy asks Al Sharpton: “Reverend Sharpton, Hello. I’m Vivek and I wanna ask you, last week on the show we had Senator [John] Kerry, and this week and the week before, we had Senator [John] Edwards. And my question for you is, of all the Democratic candidates out there, why should I vote for the one with the least political experience?”

“Well, you shouldn’t, because I have the most political experience,” Sharpton replied.

“Don’t confuse people that have a job with political experience,” he added.

Ramaswamy flashed a big grin at Sharpton while he explained his answer.

“I’ll give the 18-year-old version of myself a pat-on-the-back for eliciting the most sensible words ever to come from that man’s mouth. 20 years later, it’s funny how the tables have turned,” Ramaswamy said.

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I’ll give the 18-year-old version of myself a pat-on-the-back for eliciting the most sensible words ever to come from that man’s mouth. 20 years later, it’s funny how the tables have turned. 😄 pic.twitter.com/PfehQRXSvz

— Vivek Ramaswamy (@VivekGRamaswamy) August 29, 2023

According to the New York Post, Ramaswamy was then a Harvard University undergrad and asked Sharpton the question at an Oct. 27, 2003, townhall moderated by former MSNBC host Chris Matthews.

From the New York Post:

Former Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley slammed Ramaswamy’s lack of experience during the first GOP debate last week after accusing the entrepreneur and author of supporting foreign adversaries and wanting to abandon US allies.

“You have no foreign policy experience and it shows,” Haley said in an attack directed at Ramasamy.

Former Vice President Mike Pence also questioned Ramaswamy’s policy chops at several points during the Milwaukee forum.

“You got people on this stage that won’t even talk about issues like Social Security and Medicare. I mean, Vivek, you recently said a president can’t do everything,” Pence said. “Well, I got news for you, Vivek — I’ve been in a hallway, I’ve been in the West Wing. A president in the United States has to confront every crisis facing America.”

“Joe Biden has weakened this country at home and abroad. Now is not the time for on-the-job training,” the former vice president argued in another barb aimed at the political newcomer.

“We don’t need to bring in a rookie,” he added. “We don’t need to bring in people without experience.”

Some social media users say the video raises further suspicion that Ramaswamy is a plant.

“[Newly] released video of Big Pharma Vivek in ‘04 trying to figure out which Democrat candidate to vote for He would go on to apply for & receive a Soros fellowship in law school He never registered as a Republican But now he wants to be the GOP nominee?” DC Draino said.

Neely released video of Big Pharma Vivek in ‘04 trying to figure out which Democrat candidate to vote for

He would go on to apply for & receive a Soros fellowship in law school

He never registered as a Republican

But now he wants to be the GOP nominee?
https://t.co/SwTkO34uhT

— DC_Draino (@DC_Draino) August 29, 2023

WLTReport has questioned if Vivek Ramaswamy is Barack Obama 2.0.

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