The Quad City Times, a major newspaper in Iowa, has officially apologized to Republican primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy for previously featuring him in a cartoon that depicts GOP voters as racists. How it started: Although Ramaswamy defended the newspaper’s right to print the cartoon in a tweet last week, the Republican candidate still criticized the action by calling it “shameful.” “I’ve met with grassroots conservatives across America and never once experienced the kind of bigotry that I regularly see from the Left,” Ramaswamy wrote.