After gaining some ground in the polls, Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy is receiving encouragement from an unlikely source—his competition.
In a CBS YouGov poll (pdf) published May 1, Ramaswamy—regarded by many as an underdog—pulled in 5 percent of the vote, tying for third place with former Vice President Mike Pence.
And although there was a wide margin between the entrepreneur and the leading candidate, former President Donald Trump, who received 58 percent of the vote, that didn’t stop the latter from taking notice.
“I am pleased to see that Vivek Ramaswamy is doing so well in the most recent Republican Primary Poll, CBS YouGov,” Trump said May 5 via Truth Social. “He is tied with Mike Pence and seems to be on his way to catching Ron DeSanctimonious.”…