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Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyThirty-seven-year-old Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy has made his strident opposition to affirmative action a main part of his campaign pitch. (His other major policy pillar is fighting “wokeness.”)Since announcing his presidential run in February, Ramaswamy has railed against what he refers to as “preferences”—race, gender, legacy status, etc.—in college admissions and in hiring, saying entrance into both areas should
He’s called race-based college admissions “a cancer,” but a Soros family fellowship for children of immigrants helped him accrue wealth as a grad student.