MMR Weekend December 29-31 2023: Wait Til Next Year

At the campaign event in Iowa, an audience member asked Ramaswamy the same question that was posed to Haley the day before and asked for thoughts on “if we’re headed to another one, possibly.”



Ramaswamy laughed and said, “You know, you have a governor of South Carolina who doesn’t know much about the history of her own state.”



Ramaswamy says slavery caused the Civil War ‘to boil over’

He said, “But South Carolina in 1832 — it’s one of the things we learned in history class in 11th grade — they actually were gonna secede from the Union. We’re talking nearly a couple decades before the Civil War.”



“This comes back to the present,” he continued. “Our history isn’t about our past, it’s about our understanding of our future. So they actually, in 1832 were about to secede. Back then it was about tariffs between the North and South, but ultimately the thing that boiled us over was slavery.”