“I’m the only person on the stage who isn’t bought and paid for, so I can say this. The climate change *agenda* is a hoax, and we have to declare independence from it. The reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy. And so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.” – Vivek Ramaswamy, RNC debate #1, 8/23/23