Iowa police dispute Ramaswamy campaign’s claim that protesters rammed their car
“Our investigation has revealed no evidence to substantiate” the claim that protesters hit Ramaswamy’s car on purpose and fled, police said.
Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign claimed Thursday that protesters ran into their parked car at a campaign stop in Grinnell, Iowa. But local police later said that’s not what really happened.
Ramaswamy’s car, with no one inside it, was struck by another car in a parking lot outside a coffeehouse. His campaign told POLITICO Thursday that two protesters hit Ramaswamy’s car, but police say that the accident involved a driver unconnected to the protest.
“Our investigation has revealed no evidence to substantiate” the claim that protesters hit Ramaswamy’s car on purpose and fled, police said in a statement Thursday night.
Instead, police say that a woman had eaten lunch at a deli and backed out of a parking spot into the campaign’s rental vehicle. A report was taken and the driver was released with a summons for unsafe backing.
“[The driver] stated she was not in the area to protest, she did not know who the vehicle she struck belonged to, she did not intentionally back into the vehicle, and she did not flee the scene of the accident,” police said in a statement.
After Iowa police released the statement refuting the Ramaswamy campaign’s claim, Tricia McLaughlin, Ramaswamy’s senior adviser, posted to X, formerly known as Twitter, a photo and video of a person in a car flipping off Ramaswamy but not the actual collision.
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Iowa police refute Ramaswamy campaign's claim that protesters rammed their car https://t.co/SDN1XsUBBy
— POLITICO (@politico) October 6, 2023
No way. Vivek would never opportunistically deceive people for political gain. Nor would he ever egotistically assume he was being heroic and courageous when the facts were otherwise.
Oh wait. Of course he would. https://t.co/FZW5rsyuOe
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahDispatch) October 6, 2023
The Grinnell Police Department denied reports that protesters in Iowa ran their vehicle into US Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy's car during a campaign stop, but said his car was hit by accident https://t.co/VpbfDugE2O
— Reuters (@Reuters) October 6, 2023
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