Vance’s Must-Win MAGA Pal Busted in Brazen Double Standard

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Melting down in The Swamp today are : Vivek Ramaswamy, JD Vance, Donald Trump, Bruce Blakeman, Mike Rogers, Ken Paxton, Maria Elvira Salazar, Michael Whatley, Darline Graham, Jon Husted and Mamaw.

JD and Ramaswamy’s Very Awkward Difference Revealed Vivek Ramaswamy and JD Vance share a home state, Ivy League education, big money jobs, big MAGA resumes, and burning ambition.

But pictures of the two Ohioans—one the vice president, the other running for governor—together recently are in very short supply.

Vance flew to Ohio on Friday, publicly said he’d voted for Ramaswamy, and addressed a rally in Lima, which was attended by the would-be governor.

But the two did not pose together, on or off stage.

Why so shy, JD and Vivek? The Swamp has uncovered an intriguing back-story.

Both men are on the very opposite side of a crucial issue which Vance hopes to use to gin up his presidential chances, but which Ramaswamy probably wants to keep silent: H-1B visas.

The immigrant visas have become a lightning rod, with accusations from conservatives that big companies, especially tech, have used them to import cheaper foreign labor, and force Americans out of good-paying jobs.

And the day before he flew to Ohio, Vance announced a high-profile crackdown on the issuing of H-1B visas, calling the scheme “rife with fraud.” In contrast, The Swamp reviewed documents that show companies founded by Ramaswamy, or subsidiaries of it, used H-1B visas nearly 90 times in the last decade.

Their use not only took place at his healthcare company Roivant, but were also used at nine of its subsidiaries between 2017 and 2024.

Billionaire Ramaswamy has an alphabet soup of companies he’s involved in, the most important being his former company Roivant Sciences.