Ramaswamy's decision was made after his disappointing performance in the Iowa caucuses, coming fourth after Trump, Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis. He grabbed attention for his contentious proposed policies and fiery speech, but was unable to rise in national polling after the second GOP debate.
The crucial Iowa caucuses serve as an early indicator of which candidate may lead the presidential race for their party's nomination. Most polls showed Trump far ahead of his rivals in the run-off, while Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are competing hard for second place in the Iowa caucuses.
Republicans in the US House of Representatives are pushing for an impeachment inquiry against President Biden by linking him with his son's business dealings. The junior Biden faces upto 17 years in prison if he is convicted of the tax charges.
According to European Commissioner Thierry Breton, Trump promised to quit the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) during the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2020. Trump repeatedly clashed with traditional allies over trade and defense spending during his presidency.
Meanwhile, Haley shows signs of momentum as a poll found Trump's lead down to the single digits, with 4 in 10 likely Republican primary voters choosing Trump and about one-third now choosing Haley. Christie had run as the race's fiercest critic of the former president-turned-GOP frontrunner.
Before the hearing on his alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 elections, Trump said that he might prosecute Biden is he defeats him in the 2024 polls. Trump is the leading contender in the Republican camp as he is several points ahead of his rivals.
Maine's Secretary of State Shenna Bellows became the first top election official in history to disqualify a presidential candidate under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment. Trump's critics called for banning him from elections over his role in instigating the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol.
The court said that it would not hear an appeal from four voters in the state seeking to bar the former president from the primary votes scheduled on February 27. Earlier, the Colorado Supreme Court disqualified Trump citing his alleged role in the 2021 Capitol attack.
The Reuters/Ipsos poll also found little evidence that Republican voters are swayed by the battery of federal and state criminal charges Trump faces. Few self-identified Republicans believed the charges of electoral fraud and mob incitement against the ex-President.
"I think he's great. Look, anybody that said I'm the best president in a generation... I have to like a guy like that," Trump said in an interview.
Ramaswamy is one of the wealthiest Americans under the age of 40. He studied biology at Harvard before obtaining a law degree from Yale and was briefly a billionaire before a downturn in the stock market shrunk his wealth to just over USD 950 million.
The Fulton County Sheriff's Office said in a news release that when Trump surrenders there will be a “hard lockdown” of the area surrounding the main county jail.
Trump encouraged supporters to join a planned protest at the Miami courthouse Tuesday, where he will face the charges and surrender to authorities.
As Biden, the oldest president in US history, embarks on his reelection campaign, he is increasingly musing aloud about his advanced age, cracking self-deprecating jokes and framing his decades in public life as a plus, hoping to persuade voters his age is an asset rather than a vulnerability.
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