Wednesday briefing: How ‘anti-woke’ tech bro Vivek Ramaswamy shook up the Republican race

In today's newsletter: the 38-year-old entrepreneur has emerged as the most potent threat to Donald Trump in the GOP's bid for the White House. But what does he stand for?

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Good morning. It's more than a year until Americans choose their next president, but the race to be the Republican nominee is well under way. Their frontrunner is some guy called Donald Trump - you've probably heard of him. The one with the mugshot.

But today we are looking at the 38-year-old anti-woke" tech bro who could end up being Trump's greatest rival. Vivek Ramaswamy, a biotech entrepreneur, was widely viewed as the winner" of the first Republican TV debate last week. Selling himself as a patriot who speaks the truth", he called the climate change agenda a hoax" and promised revolution" rather than incremental reform". Oh, and he vowed that one of his first acts as president would be to pardon Trump for whatever he may have been convicted of by then. Lovely stuff.