Is Candace Owens Headed to the White House With Vivek Ramaswamy?

Vivek Ramaswamy and Candace Owens are hitting the campaign trail ahead of the Iowa Republican Caucus next week, and it’s the dynamic duo absolutely no one asked for. But in many ways, they make a fitting pair.

The news was first reported by Dylan Wells at the Washington Post — who noted that Owens would appear with the biotech entrepreneur at four rallies in Iowa. The conservative political commentator announced her initial support of Ramaswamy in November. But, her decision to campaign with him in Iowa has solidified the relationship between the two controversial figures.

Both of them have been known to say outlandish and offensive things when it comes to race. Owens, who is Black, has repeatedly denied the existence of racism and racial oppression, once noting that it wasn’t real because she has “never been a slave.” Owens has also gotten in trouble for essentially saying that if Hitler had just stuck to Germany, things would have been fine. 

Ramaswamy, who is Indian American, is no less controversial when it comes to race. He has denied the existence of White Supremacy — comparing it to a “unicorn.” Ramaswamy also called Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley and Ibram X. Kendi the “modern grand wizards of the modern KKK.” It’s worth noting that Pressley, who is Black, has family members who were “brutalized, lynched,” and “raped” by the Ku Klux Klan.

“Vivek Ramaswamy has a view that history sort of started the day he was born,” Congressman Ro Khanna noted to The Root.

Based on what we know about the pair of controversy courters, it seems like a match made in heaven. Unless, of course, they start battling over the spotlight, and then all bets are off.