Ramaswamy slams CNN’s ‘egregious interference’ with Iowa GOP caucus over town halls 

GOP presidential primary candidate Vivek Ramaswamy went after CNN in a Saturday post on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter.

“CNN’s egregious interference with the Iowa GOP caucus is offensive,” Ramaswamy wrote. “My CNN town hall with the voters here went so well that they cut it off early & then threatened our campaign with a cease-and-desist for posting it on YouTube, while Nikki Haley’s scripted CNN town hall from 6 months ago is still up.”

“Then CNN notified our campaign within 48 hours that multiple qualifying polls that the RNC used for its debates wouldn’t count for CNN’s fake ‘debate’ that they’re hosting in Iowa on January 10,” Ramaswamy continued. “The dishonesty needs to end.”

CNN hosted a town hall with Ramaswamy a few weeks ago in Iowa, moderated by anchor Abby Phillip. During the town hall, Ramaswamy said he thinks the Supreme Court should overturn the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) approval of the abortion pill mifepristone. 

“It’s my opinion… that the FDA exceeded its statutory authority in using an emergency approval to approve something that doesn’t fit Congress’s criteria for what actually counts as an emergency approval,” Ramaswamy said. 

The Supreme Court announced on the same day as the town hall that it would take up the case. 

At the event, Ramaswamy also said mifepristone’s approval is a “symptom” of “what’s going on in the administrative state.”

“The people who we elect to run the government, they’re not even the ones who run the government right now. It’s the bureaucrats in those three-letter agencies that are pulling the strings today,” he said.

The Hill has reached out to CNN.