Vivek Ramaswamy says people find him annoying because he's doing so well

Let's talk a little bit about the candidacy of Vivek Ramaswamy. He had a funny little interview where he was asked, why do people find you so annoying? Which is a really funny question, because one of the big feedbacks about Vivek after the first Republican presidential debate was, man, this guy's annoying. He seems manic. Why is he so annoying? Vivek says people are finding me annoying because I'm doing so well, which is also really, really funny. Let's take a look at this video. It's from yesterday's Fox News Sunday. And here is Vivek Ramaswamy trying to explain to the host, why are his unfavorables going up? Your profile is growing, but as it does, our polling also shows your unfavorables are up. This is the latest polling up 12 points since we pulled this in August. One recent opinion piece puts it this way. Of all the descriptors attached to Vivek Ramaswamy, the 38 year old political tyro enjoying a bizarre surge in the Republican primary race for second place, the most common one seems to be annoying. Why do you think if more people have gotten to know you, your unfavorables are up too? Well, look, we have been taking intense criticism, Shannon, over the last several weeks since I performed well on that second debate. And this is part of the process. So I invite the open debate. The reality is many people are annoyed by my rise and believe that a 38 year old is too young to be U.S. president. The fact of the matter is Thomas Jefferson was 33 years old when he wrote the U.S. Declaration. If you're wondering how we're on Thomas Jefferson, when she asked, why are you being found so annoying? It is a really good question to which I don't have an answer. Nation of independence. He also invented the swivel chair while he was out it, by the way. And so I think we need to revive that spirit. And I believe, Shannon, it will take someone whose best days ahead. Yeah. Why do people find you so annoying? They're annoyed because of my rise. Now, let's be serious. I'm going to give you a bunch of different realities here. Number one, his rise is extremely modest. If you're looking at the chart I have on the screen and you see, wow, someone has just seen a huge rise in the last few months from 43 all the way up to now 57. Who is that? That's Trump. Trump is now polling better in the Republican primary than he has dating all the way back to July of last year. OK, in the last 14 months, Trump is doing his best today. De Sanctis is in the toilet and Vivek Ramaswamy is bouncing between six and seven. Yes, he started at one. Yes, he's gone six to seven times that now up to six or seven. But the rise that is claimed to be going on seems to have stopped about a month ago. Now, I also want to just be super upfront about something. MAGA trumpets are not going to select as their nominee a minority. They're just not going to do it. It's not going to be Vivek Ramaswamy and it's not going to be Tim Scott. Now, you might say, well, but David, they might select Nikki Haley and she's a minority. She is a minority. And I agree that Nikki Haley, in my mind, actually has a better shot at ultimately being the nominee than Vivek Ramaswamy or Tim Scott or even Ron DeSantis. But Nikki Haley, by virtue of using a different name than her birth name and just generally her appearance. Right. I mean, a lot of this is remember Obama was half black in society. He was black. A lot of this is the way that you are perceived. Nikki Haley is not perceived as a minority in the way that Tim Scott and Vivek Ramaswamy are. If you want to show me any data that points to the same people that selected Trump based on his coalescing of xenophobia and racism are going to then go to Tim Scott or Vivek Ramaswamy. Find me that data. I don't see it. And the truth is that this primarily is a tool for Vivek Ramaswamy to promote himself. That's annoying and that's nonsensical. And he's also not doing that well. But I want to talk just a little bit more about some Vivek Ramaswamy policy, which is also really funny.