Vivek Ramaswamy compares Trump to George Washington and calls 2024 a ‘1776 moment’ at Wisconsin rally where he makes shocking Biden claim

Vivek Ramaswamy compared Donald Trump to America’s first president George Washington and claimed that the 2024 election is a ‘1776 moment’.

The former 2024 contestant made a surprise appearance Tuesday at former President Trump’s rally in Racine, Wisconsin, where he made the comments.

He claimed that Trump is being persecuted by Britain like the Founding Fathers and called on his supporters to cast their votes for the former president in November.

Ramaswamy also predicted that President Joe Biden might not become the Democrats’ 2024 nominee in November.

“Dig deep and ask yourself why our founding fathers made the sacrifices they did 250 years ago,” Ramaswamy told the excited crowd. “56 men signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776. We don’t often ask what became of them.”

He then explained, “I’m going to tell you what happened to them; Twelve of them had their homes looted and burned by the British, five were captured by the British and tortured to death, nine died in the Revolutionary War, and another three had their own children die in the war. During the Revolutionary War, many of them died bankrupt because their own private property was seized before their deaths.”

“They made those sacrifices in 1776 and I believe today is a 1776 moment in 2024 and Donald Trump is the George Washington of our moment,” the biotech entrepreneur turned politician continued.

About half an hour before arriving at the rally site at Racine Festival Park, Ramaswamy wrote on X: “Just landed in Wisconsin. Critical situation this year. Heading to a meeting in Racine soon. Should be fun.”

Thousands come to the meeting, just 30 miles south of Milwaukee.

At the top of his remarks, Ramaswamy said he would not focus on breaking President Biden’s record.

“I’m not going to sit here and rail against Joe Biden because there’s a good chance, let’s face it, that he may not be the nominee we’re running against,” he claimed.

Some Trump supporters took a nap on the sidewalk Tuesday, waiting for their shot to be one of the first few in.

Hundreds showed up for the rally in the early morning hours, just days after Trump reportedly called Milwaukee a “terrible city” during a meeting with Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill last week.

A rallygoer outside Racine Festival Park showed off a thigh tattoo that read “Made in America” ​​beneath a portrait of Trump.

Several other supporters wore black and orange prison T-shirts bearing the ex-president’s Georgia mugshot and messages encouraging Trump to “never surrender” despite the four criminal cases against him.

The Wisconsin rally comes less than a month after a Manhattan jury found Trump guilty of 34 counts of falsifying business records in connection with a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

A supporter at the rally in Racine, Wisconsin on Tuesday showed off his thigh tattoo featuring a portrait of Donald Trump with the words: ‘Made in America’

Rallygoers lined up for hours before entry to the event opened, and some took a nap as they waited for their chance to be among the first at Racine Festival Park

Trump will return to Wisconsin next month for the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where he is expected to officially become the party’s 2024 nominee.

Wisconsin is a crucial battleground in November and one of the states critical to winning the White House in 2024.

Trump won Wisconsin in 2016 by just 0.7 percent. But the state turned blue for President Joe Biden in 2020 by a margin of 0.6 percent.

“Thousands of Wisconsinites will gather in Racine to show their support for President Donald J. Trump,” Republican National Committee (RNC) spokesman Jacob Fischer said in a statement ahead of Trump’s arrival.

“Within a month, tens of thousands of people will gather in Wisconsin as President Trump formally accepts the Republican nomination,” he added. “His America First agenda will end Joe Biden’s crippling inflation, skyrocketing prices, border crisis and rampant crime, Making America Great Again.”

Some outrage followed after Trump called Milwaukee a “terrible city” during a meeting with Republican lawmakers in Washington DC last Thursday. But Trump’s campaign, as well as many of those who attended the Capitol Hill Club event with the ex-president, claim the comment was taken out of context by the media.

“In a desperate attempt to get likes, Fake News Jake Sherman – who wasn’t even in the room – falsely claimed that President Trump called Milwaukee a ‘terrible city.’ It’s a total lie,” Trump’s deputy communications director Dylan Johnson wrote.

He added, “President Trump made explicit reference to the problems in Milwaukee, particularly violent crime and voter fraud.”

Trump still faces three more cases with dozens more charges against him in Georgia, Washington DC and Florida.

Many in line wore “Never Surrender” shirts with images of Trump’s infamous mugshot from the case against him in Georgia

Others wore shirts covered with images of the former president and others wore generic patriotic or pro-Trump garb

As temperatures soared above 80 degrees ahead of Trump’s arrival in Wisconsin on Tuesday, a video was played of the former president encouraging his supporters to “make a plan” to vote if they couldn’t make it on Election Day in November to fetch.

After years of condemning mail-in voting fraud, Trump is now urging his supporters to embrace the tool in order to “overwhelm” Democrats in the 2024 elections.

“Keep your eyes open, because these people want to cheat,” Trump said in the clip played to the crowd trickling in.