people explain this switch as an attack ad that Ramaswamy launched that backfired on him, but he did testing on the ad, and it should’ve worked
it was probably the second order effects — people liked the ad, until over time it became apparent that would make them a pariah within their friends
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mr. TIM
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2026-10-24 00:38:43 UTC
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2026-10-24 00:38:43 UTCEvent JSON
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