Within the spirit of the late Matthew Perry’s Chandler Bing: Might Vivek Ramaswamy be any extra condescending? (Watch the video beneath.)
The Republican presidential candidate’s trade with CNN’s Abby Phillip Wednesday over China and Taiwan devolved right into a morass of mansplaining.
Maybe Ramaswamy was already irritated by a CNN story earlier within the day stating his stagnant polling within the single digits, marketing campaign useful resource juggling, and a confrontational third debate that noticed his favorability ranking plummet.
Ramaswamy has mentioned the U.S. ought to defend Taiwan ― a semiconductor producer essential to U.S. pursuits ― in opposition to a China invasion till the U.S. attains semiconductor independence. Then, he mentioned, the U.S. ought to resume its coverage of “strategic ambiguity.”
“Simply as a last level of readability on this,” Phillips mentioned. “As soon as america achieves semiconductor independence, do you consider it is going to be in america’ nationwide curiosity to discourage China from invading Taiwan?”
“We’ll consider at that time limit. It is not going to be preferable for China to invade Taiwan even then,” he replied.
“That’s not a solution to my query,” the host mentioned.
Phillip pressed Ramaswamy for a direct reply a number of instances, after which he grew to become very patronizing (which wouldn’t be his first time with a feminine anchor on CNN).
Right here’s a partial transcript from Mediate:
RAMASWAMY: Abby, I feel you don’t perceive. Abby, do you even know what ‘strategic ambiguity’ means proper now?
PHILLIP: I’m simply asking you a easy query.
RAMASWAMY: Do you perceive the present posture? The present posture is strategic ambiguity and I’ve a sense that you just don’t know what that’s. So I’m completely happy to teach you in the event you’re .
Strategic ambiguity can be what we resume. It’s the present established order, and that’s what we’ll resume after we’ve achieved semiconductor independence. It’s that straightforward.
PHILLIP: A easy reply to that query would truly be a sure or no.
Quick-forward to 4:10 to catch the second or watch the entire section right here:
Tonight GOP candidate @VivekGRamaswamy refuses to say whether or not deterring China from invading Taiwan can be within the US nationwide safety curiosity after reaching “semiconductor independence” which he says will occur in 2028.
Be aware: a number of months in the past, he mentioned when US achieves… pic.twitter.com/XaWIIIMIF5
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) November 16, 2023
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