Vivek Ramaswamy has laughed off viral claims that he’s hiring H-1B visa holders for his Ohio gubernatorial campaign over Americans. Taking to his official X account Wednesday night (US time), the former presidential candidate reacted to his campaign manager Jonathan Ewing highlighting a social media post that pilloried the Indian-origin Silicon Valley entrepreneur for deeming foreign nationals more suited for the job.
The Ohio governor hopeful simply posted two laughing emoticons, while re-sharing the post thread on his account. Ewing, on the other, gave out a more detailed explanation, as he took issue with the post pushing big claims against Ramaswamy and going viral for it despite peddling inaccurate insinuations.
“This post got nearly 200k views, internet people are throwing a fit,” Vivek Ramaswamy’s gubernatorial campaign manager wrote on the platform, “yet it’s a fake image & 100% false.”
Affirming his own identity as the campaign manager, he went on to “confirm” that their team didn’t include any H-1B hire. “…can confirm we’ve never hired an H1B for our campaign (ridiculous),” he added. “Just one of many examples of slanderous slop out there, don’t fall for it.”
In addition to offering his clarification, Jonathan even included the screenshot of the controversial post going around on social media. The fake H-1B claims in the post suggested, “Americans aren’t good enough for Vivek Ramaswamy.”
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