Vivek Ramaswamy Fires Back at Reporter Asking if He Condemns White Supremacy

Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went off on a reporter Wednesday who asked him if he condemns “white supremacy and white nationalism.”

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“Of course I condemn any form of vicious racial discrimination in this country. But I think that the presumption of your question is fundamentally based on a falsehood that really is the main form of racial discrimination we see in this country today,” he told the Washington Post reporter during a campaign event in Scott County, Iowa.

“Institutionalized racism is institutionalized racial discrimination that we see that doesn’t come from somehow discriminating against people on the basis of some tentative white supremacy. It’s based on affirmative action. It’s based on actually discriminating against people on the color of their skin in a way that’s actually institutionalized today,” Ramaswamy added.

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The Washington Post reporter then jumped in, telling the GOP candidate, “You didn’t say that you condemn white supremacy.”

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“I’m not pledging allegiance to your new religion of modern wokeism,” the increasingly agitated White House hopeful went on, accusing the reporter of asking a “stupid question.”

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The reporter’s question stemmed from controversial former Iowa Republican Rep. Steve King’s Tuesday endorsement of Ramaswamy.

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