Vivek Ramaswamy unveils endorsement criteria for candidates: Their 'moral duty' must be to US citizens

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FIRST ON FOX - Former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy is unveiling his endorsement criteria for other political hopefuls he dubs "The American Truth Pledge."

Speaking with Fox News Digital, Ramaswamy said he has received "a flood of inbound requests for endorsements" after he suspended his 2024 campaign last month and threw his support behind former President Trump. But in order for them to earn his endorsement, they must share "some basic ideals" that were major themes of his presidential bid in putting "America First."

"I don't want to be making these decisions in a one-off manner," Ramaswamy said in an interview. "I want to be making them in a systematic manner to say that if somebody gets endorsement, for me, it means that we are jointly endorsing some basic ideals that we stand behind."

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The "American Truth Pledge" has four broad categories. The first reads "The people we elect to run government should actually run the government," the second being "The first and only moral duty of US leaders is to US citizens," the third being "Public service is about serving the public, not oneself," and the final one reading "The absence of national pride is an existential threat to our nation’s future — we must fill that void."

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