IN-DEPTH: Why Vivek Ramaswamy Needs New Hampshire

Vivek Ramaswamy speaks forcefully and specifically about what he believes he can do. Yet, even coming from a prophet of optimism, one Vivek-y pledge at a libertarian event in northern New Hampshire stands out.
“If I win the New Hampshire Republican primary, I will be your next president,” the 2024 hopeful told a liberty-minded audience at the Porcupine Freedom Festival, or PorcFest, on June 24.
Mr. Ramaswamy’s high-IQ swagger is grounded in something very much like reality.
The Granite State’s primary is a consistent, albeit imperfect, bellwether for the two major parties’ choices at their respective conventions. When it doesn’t choose nominees, it often selects populist outsiders; think Bernie Sanders in recent Democratic primaries or, in the 1996 Republican primary, Pat Buchanan….}