Ramaswamy says top priority for Trump is 'uniting the country'
Former GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy said “uniting the country” is a top priority for President-elect Trump.
“I think he cares about uniting the country. I think that is Donald Trump's number one focus,” Ramaswamy said Sunday on ABC News’s “This Week” with the outlet’s Jonathan Karl.
“And I do think we have to get back to a place, after this election, after that decisive victory, which I do think was a gift to the country, get back to a place where ordinary Americans who might have voted differently amongst their family members or their colleagues or their neighbors, to be able to get together at the dinner table and say, ‘We're still Americans at the end of this,’” he added.
Trump won the 2024 presidential election against Vice President Harris earlier this week, rattling Democrats across the country. The president-elect captured seven important battleground states in this year’s race for the White House, six of which President Biden won in 2020.
Ramaswamy said Trump has “also learned a lot from that first term,” adding that he believes “he's going into this second term, even to take to new heights some of the things he wasn't able to accomplish in the first term, which I think is going to be a good thing.”
Trump’s victory this week also notches a surprising comeback for the president-elect from his defeat four years ago. Since he left office in 2021, Trump has faced multiple legal woes on the federal and state level and criticism related to how he handled the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots.
Trump told his backers early Wednesday morning that the U.S. had given him and his party “a powerful and unprecedented mandate.”
“This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have to have,” he said. “This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.”
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