Vivek Ramaswamy raps to Eminem’s ‘Lose Your self’ at Iowa State Truthful

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By Mary Kay Linge

August 12, 2023 | 3:38pm

Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy misplaced himself within the music and the second as he broke out his rapping alter ego on the marketing campaign path Saturday.

In a primary for the 2024 GOP major race, the 38-year-old businessman — who has seen a latest surge within the polls — grabbed a mic and carried out a verse of Eminem’s “Lose Your self” to a stunned crowd on the Iowa State Truthful.

“Snap again to actuality, ope there goes gravity,” he chanted, grinning broadly and pumping his fist in time to the observe.

Moments earlier than, he had named the track — a 2002 hit from the movie “8 Mile” that went on to win an Academy Award — as his favourite walk-out observe at marketing campaign occasions.

“It’s like, younger and scrappy,” he defined to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds throughout her “fair-side chat” occasion.

“I’m actually beginning to perceive my age,” responded Reynolds, 64. “I’m going to need to go look that up.”

He slammed the “local weather change agenda” as a “hoax” throughout his half-hour stint on the stage — and promised to signal a “declaration of independence from Communist China” if elected, saying that Individuals have turn out to be “addicted” to Chinese language merchandise.

Ramaswamy, the youngest main candidate within the 2024 presidential race and its solely millennial, is the primary passionate hip-hop fan to make a bid for the White Home.

Final month, he carried out a number of seconds of what he referred to as his “libertarian freestyle rap” on Fox Information after a report revealed Ramaswamy’s faculty aspect hustle as a rapper who carried out as “Da Vek.”

“My identify’s Vivek / It rhymes with cake,” he declaimed as he confirmed off his hidden expertise.

Ramaswamy, who has made outreach to younger voters a high precedence, has seen an uptick in his polling numbers in latest weeks as Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s standing has declined in opposition to former president Donald Trump.

The RealClearPolitics polling common places Ramaswamy in third place amongst GOP major voters at 6.1%, with DeSantis at 15.1% — and Trump, at 52.1%, far forward of each his nearest rivals.