Ramaswamy Offers 10% Kickback To Individual Fundraisers
While the 2024 GOP presidential primary race is crowded with conventional candidates, one White House hopeful is disrupting the process with an outsider approach to politics.
Vivek Ramawamy, a tech entrepreneur who has been gaining popularity among Republican voters in recent weeks, unveiled his novel approach to fundraising on social media this week.
In short, his “Vivek Kitchen Cabinet” program will allow members to keep 10% of the funds they raise on behalf of his campaign.
“A small oligopoly of political fundraisers is already making an ungodly amount of $ on this election,” he wrote in the caption of one Twitter video. “It’s disgusting. I’m breaking up that cartel. Today we’re launching the Vivek Kitchen Cabinet: starting today, *anyone* can fundraise for the Vivek 2024 campaign & make a 10% commission. If someone else is getting rich on this, it might as well be you. Let’s go.”
He shared his opposition to “this system as it exists,” noting that if he has to abide by the status quo he believes that his campaign should “democratize that and make it possible for everybody to make money as well.”
Members of the program will enjoy a “special relationship” with him, he promised, adding: “Why should it be some member of some managerial class? That’s a secret closeted group of fundraisers in the cloistered world of politics? It shouldn’t be.”
Additional details are available on a dedicated webpage, which provides prospective members with an option for a personalized link that will record collected donations.
Ahead of next month’s Republican primary debate, former President Donald Trump continues to hold a commanding lead over the rest of the field with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in a distant second place.
Ramaswamy has seen interest in his campaign soar, however, and one national poll shows he has double-digit support among GOP voters, trailing DeSantis by a mere six points.
Although he has criticized certain aspects of Trump’s record, he has generally endorsed the former president’s agenda and portrayed his own campaign as one that would expand on those principles.
“I’m doing what Trump set up to do in 2015,” he said earlier this year. “But my commitment to those voters is I’m going to take that same America first agenda, and actually take it even further,” Ramaswamy said.
