Vivek Ramaswamy shares breakfast with New Hampshire voters for “Candidate Café”
Ramaswamy shares his love of tennis and how his piano teacher helped shape his conservatism
Vivek Ramaswamy shared breakfast with New Hampshire voters as part of WMUR’s “Candidate Café” series. Growing up in southwest Ohio, Ramaswamy attended middle school and high school where few, if any, of his classmates looked like him. a bit of an out guy, so much so that that’s kind of where I became most comfortable, is being a bit of a contrarian,” Ramaswamy said. He honed his debating skills by taking night classes at law school with his father, but it was his piano teacher who introduced him to conservative politics. Their first conversations were, for his part, a cover. “It was a diversion that we could use. One thing that would throw her off would be if we started making her talk about politics on a day when we’d had a lot of practice, she, you know, 10 minutes of the half hour would be spent on talk about this topic, which means 10 minutes less trouble for not practicing,” Ramaswamy said. “So the next week she came and she brought a biography of Ronald Reagan, and she gave it to me gave it when I was in high school as an assignment to read it.” Ramaswamy said it had a big influence on his life. He also describes himself as a “tennis fanatic.” His favorite player is Rafael Nadal. “L “Raw effort from someone who plays every point like it’s their last. And unfortunately, one of these recently could very well have been their last,” Ramaswamy said. “Still, it’s something I admire, putting effort in. You know, there’s an old expression from John Newcombe, a famous Australian tennis player and coach. He says you either win or you leave blood on the field. And in a way, I compete and I live by that mentality, and Rafael Nadal was the ultimate guy who did that. »
Vivek Ramaswamy shared breakfast with New Hampshire voters as part of WMUR’s “Candidate Café” series.
Growing up in southwest Ohio, Ramaswamy attended middle school and high school where few, if any, of his classmates looked like him.
“I’ve had, in a way, the blessing – I consider it a blessing – to often be a bit of a strange man, so much so that that’s sort of where I feel most at home. comfort is being a little bit against the grain,” Ramaswamy said.
He honed his debating skills while taking night classes at law school with his father, but it was his piano teacher who first introduced him to conservative politics.
Their first conversations were, for his part, only a cover.
“It was a diversion we could use. One thing that would throw her off is if we started having her talk about politics on a day when we had a lot of practice, she would spend, you know, 10 minutes of the half hour talking about that topic, which means 10 minutes less trouble for not practicing,” Ramaswamy said. “So the next week she came over and she actually brought a biography of Ronald Reagan, and she gave it to me when I was in high school as homework to read it.”
Ramaswamy said it had a great influence on his life.
He also describes himself as a “tennis fanatic.”
His favorite player is Rafael Nadal.
“The raw effort of someone who plays every point like it’s their last. And unfortunately, one of these recently could very well have been his last,” Ramaswamy said. “However, it’s something I admire, making an effort. You know, there is an old expression from John Newcombe, a famous Australian tennis player and coach. He says you either win or you leave blood on the field. And in a way, I compete and I live by that mentality, and Rafael Nadal was the ultimate guy who did that. »
