The presidential hopeful's opening remarks bore a striking similarity to those the former president used in 2004, sparking accusations they were lifted.
"So let me just address a question that is on everybody's mind at home tonight: who the heck is this skinny guy with the funny last name and what the heck is he doing in the middle of this debate stage?" Ramaswamy said at the outset of the eight-way debate.
During a keynote address to the Democratic National Convention in July 2004, Obama, the then-Democratic senator for Illinois, spoke of hope—a concept that would become the centerpiece of his White House bid—including self-referentially"the hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too."
Vivek Ramaswamy gestures as he arrives to take part in the first Republican Presidential primary debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on August 23, 2023. He has been accused of plagiarizing Barack Obama in his opening remarks.
"Vivek Ramaswamy pulled a Melania [Trump] tonight and plagiarized a famous speech by President Obama," Jon Pierre, an internet personality, wrote on X, formerly
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