Vivek Ramaswamy (Micah Green/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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Ramaswamy and Vance were classmates at Yale Law School and both grew up in southwest Ohio.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, is introduced during the Republican National Convention on Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Vance, who lives in Cincinnati, moved to San Francisco after law school and worked as a principal in a venture capital firm owned by billionaire venture capitalist Peter Thiel, who later became a major financial supporter of Vance's successful 2020 campaign for the Senate.
Before running for Senate, Vance grabbed national attention after "Hillbilly Elegy," which tells his story of growing up in a struggling steel mill city and his roots in Appalachian Kentucky, became a New York Times bestseller and was made into a Netflix film. The story spotlighted the values of many working-class Americans who became supporters of Trump's policies.
Ramswamy also told Fox News Digital he feels Vance will attract young voters but also "more than that."
"I think he’s going to attract a lot of people who are hungry for economic mobility in the country, and I think he’s even going to attract a lot of people who aren’t traditional Republicans," he said.
Meanwhile, Ramaswamy reflected on the assassination attempt on former President Trump on Saturday at his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. He told Fox News Digital that the former president and Republican nominee is handling the days after the attempt on his life "admirably."
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"I spoke to President Trump that night. It was 12:30 a.m., and he was as energetic as ever," Ramaswamy said. "And I just think he demonstrated through his action … in that moment to say, ‘I’m going to take the hit and still stand up for the people who I am here to represent, that I was put here to lead.’"
Former President Trump is shown in the aftermath of a failed assassination attempt. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
But Crooks killed one spectator: Corey Comperatore, a father, husband and former fire chief in Buffalo Township, Pennsylvania.
Authorities say two other people were critically injured in the attack, and the FBI is investigating the shooting as an assassination attempt.
"It was a tragedy for the person who died, and we have to remember that, and our heart goes out to their family," Ramaswamy said.
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"But we avoided by miracle what would have been a national tragedy, and I think it is an opportunity for us to take a step back and ask ourselves what is important in this country," he said. "We care about one country, and I believe President Trump is going to be the one who unites the country."
Donald Trump is shown with JD Vance in Vandalia, Ohio, on Nov. 7, 2022. (Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
As for the Republican National Convention this week in Milwaukee, Ramaswamy told Fox News Digital he is looking forward to "candor."
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"I think Saturday night was a wake-up call, and hopefully that will cut through standard stump-speech-style verbiage," he said, adding that there are "a lot of good people here who hopefully will speak from the heart."
"I think it will be good for the country," he told Fox News Digital. "I think it will start the process of turning the page on a chapter of national toxicity that I hope we put behind us."
Brooke Singman is a political correspondent and reporter for Fox News Digital, Fox News Channel and FOX Business.
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