Vivek Ramaswamy steps up the Iowa crowd by rapping Eminem’s Lose Yourself as the youngest GOP presidential candidate rises in the polls

Vivek Ramaswamy thrilled the audience at the Iowa State Fair on Saturday by rapping to Eminem’s Lose Yourself.

Ramaswamy, 38, ended his chat conversation with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds by performing on the hit.

The crowd cheered him on and Reynolds gave him a high-five when he finished his performance.

Reynolds had asked the business tycoon his favorite strike song and Ramaswamy said he was Lose Yourself. She joked that she was showing her age by not knowing that tune.

Ramaswamy spends Saturday at the annual event campaigning for votes. It’s a busy day for those interested in the 2024 presidential contest: GOP contenders Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are also campaigning at the fairgrounds.

The biotech entrepreneur is the youngest contender for the 2024 Republican nomination, but he’s had a surprise blowout in the polls during the race.

He placed fourth in the latest DailyMail.com poll of Iowa voters. And a few national polls showed Ramaswamy second over DeSantis. He comes third in the RealClearPolitics Poll Average of the race.

Trump is still leading the game by double digits.

But there is no doubt that Ramaswamy, who brings a lot of energy to the campaign phase, has some momentum on his side. He has already achieved the qualifications to stand on stage for the first GOP presidential debate, which takes place in Milwaukee on August 23.

Polls show that younger Republicans and voters with college degrees like the 38-year-old.

He has targeted younger voters in his campaign pitch. He spent Friday night posing for selfies and talking to voters at Jalapeño Pete’s, a popular Des Moines bar.

He has said his campaign’s message is about “speaking the hard truths, the truth you might speak at the dinner table, but you don’t feel free to speak in public.”

Vivek Ramaswamy is the youngest contender for the GOP nomination and has targeted young voters in his campaign

Vivek will be spending Saturday at the Iowa State Fair and he started his day with a chat with Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.

Vivek Ramaswamy campaigned at Jalapeno Pete’s bar on Friday night

During his conversation with Reynolds, he talked about his conservative policies, including a plan to drastically cut the federal workforce.

He said he would have a 75 percent “cut of staff,” of which 50 percent would be eliminated in the first year alone.

He ended his chat by donning a red hat, grabbing the microphone and shouting Lose Yourself. The song won an Oscar in 2003 for best original song in the movie ‘8 Mile’ and was the first hip-hop song to win that award.

During his college days at Harvard, Ramaswamy had a sideline as a libertarian-minded rap artist who went by the stage name ‘Da Vek’.

He said he was inspired by Eminem.

‘He’s growing up in the caravans, with a single mother, and he wants to make it. He’s going to use the moment to do it. He feels like he’s going to use the moment to do it, he grabs it and then he makes it happen, and I thought it was a pretty cool story,” Ramaswamy told Politico last month.

“I didn’t grow up in a trailer, but I also didn’t grow up in the same conditions as most of my peers at Harvard. I strove to accomplish what many of their parents did. It appealed to me, I would say.’

The latest DailyMail.com/JL Partners survey shows that 43% of likely Iowa Republican caucus attendees will support Donald Trump with Vivek Ramaswamy in fourth place.

Born in Ohio to immigrant parents from India, Ramaswamy earned a biology degree from Harvard University and went on to graduate from Yale Law School.

He made a fortune after starting a biotech company and is the author of several books, including ‘Woke, Inc.’ The books helped Ramaswamy gain fame in conservative circles.