The presidential campaign for GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says a political consultant with ties to the Conservative Political Action Conference posed a deal in which the consultant would bus people to the event to get them to vote for Ramaswamy in the closing-day straw poll in exchange for $100,000.
“Basically, they were like, if you pay I think it was upward of $100,000, we can get tickets and bus a bunch of people in for the straw poll,” a senior Ramaswamy campaign manager told Politico on Tuesday on the condition of anonymity.
“I was taken aback, because I’ve never been to CPAC before, and it’s very activist driven, but I think if any of them knew it was an artificial poll, they’d be pretty pissed about that,” the campaign manager said.
Ramaswamy’s campaign declined the proposal.Politico confirmed that the consultant is tied to CPAC, but the campaign shared the offer and asked […]
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