Vivek Ramaswamy Sinks to New Low: 60% of South Carolina Voters Won’t Vote for Him ‘Under Any Circumstances’

It’s been a rough few weeks for Republican presidential hopeful Vivek Ramaswamy, whose momentum is dragging him backwards.

In the early primary states, Ramaswamy is increasingly unpopular.

On Monday, a Des Moines Register poll of Iowa Republican primary voters indicated that Ramaswamy was in sixth place in the Hawkeye state. Even more notably, the survey showed that proportion of voters who view him unfavorably has nearly doubled since August, rising from 20% to 37%.

Then on Tuesday, a CNN poll showed that 60% of South Carolina Republicans have decided that they would not support Ramaswamy “under any circumstances.” Just 1% of the Palmetto State primary electorate, meanwhile, say they presently intend on casting their ballot for him.

His fall from grace has coincided with significant bumps for former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley, whom Ramaswamy has attempted to make his foil in the race — even associating her outrage over Hamas’ attack on Israel with “corrupting and financial interests.” Haley is now in second place behind former president Donald Trump in both New Hampshire and South Carolina, and nipping at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s heels in Iowa.

Ramaswamy has made several recent missteps that — in conjunction with his loud, adversarial performance in the first primary debate — have hampered his favorability ratings.

An interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity went off the rails when Ramaswamy inexplicably denied having made the remark about Haley.

“Hey, Vivek, wait a minute, stop right now. You do this in every single interview. You say stuff and then you deny it. You deny your own words. So, you know, why don’t you just own what you say and stand by it and stop playing these games?” asked Hannity.

Later, Ramaswamy enjoyed a friendly chat with conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, who’s currently on the hook for nearly a billion dollars for his defamation of the victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, during which the candidate collegially referred to his and Jones’s shared “movement.”