He opposes a national ban but supports six-week state bans.

The entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has said that abortion should be left to states while nonetheless calling it “murder.” He has said he supports six-week bans at the state level.

He opposes all government efforts to reduce carbon emissions.

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I will abandon the climate cult in all of its forms.

This is a framework that we’ve gotten totally wrong.

It’s what they call the anti-impact framework.

It treats carbon as the bad guy,

and says we have to measure it and decrease carbon emissions

at all costs.

That has shackled the American energy sector,

and that is the No. 1 obstacle to G.D.P. growth

in this country.

He opposes military aid and wants Ukraine to concede territory in exchange for Russia breaking with China.

“I don’t think it is preferable for Russia to be able to invade a sovereign country that is its neighbor, but I think the job of the U.S. president is to look after American interests, and what I think the No. 1 threat to the U.S. military is right now, our top military threat, is the Sino-Russian alliance.”

He has proposed some of the most aggressive stances of any candidate.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, has called for securing the border by any means necessary, including military force. This could violate an 1878 law that forbids the use of federal troops for civilian law enforcement, but Mr. Ramaswamy argues that securing the border isn’t civilian law enforcement.

He is Trump’s fiercest defender and has denounced the justice system in incendiary terms.

The entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has repeatedly cast the indictments as examples of “the ruling party” using “police power to arrest its political rivals,” and has urged other candidates to pledge to pardon Mr. Trump. When the moderators at the Republican debate in August asked whether candidates would commit to supporting Mr. Trump in a general election even if he was convicted of crimes, Mr. Ramaswamy was the first to raise his hand.

He has proposed hard-line policies, including forbidding U.S. companies to do business in China.

Vivek Ramaswamy, like many candidates, describes China as the biggest geopolitical and military threat to the United States.

He says he would increase G.D.P. growth by stopping efforts to combat climate change.

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Our Federal Reserve —

the U.S. Fed —

it’s been trying to play God over the financial system

for far too long.

Except effectively, it’s been the equivalent of playing God

with a fat finger.

The Fed has done a disastrous job

in its mandate of trying to balance

inflation and unemployment.

It’s like the equivalent of trying to hit two targets

with a single arrow.

I’m going to put the Fed back in its place by telling them

to focus on stabilizing the U.S. dollar.

You could say as measured against a basket

of currencies.

And that should be their sole mandate.

You shouldn’t even know who — most Americans,

at least shouldn’t know the name of who’s leading

the Federal Reserve because it should be such a

ministerial function.

He supports sweeping restrictions on transgender rights, and his rhetoric is hostile to transgender people.

Vivek Ramaswamy has falsely described being transgender as a mental illness and called it a “deluded and mentally deranged state” in a Breitbart News interview.

He supports an impeachment inquiry.

Vivek Ramaswamy, an entrepreneur who has campaigned ardently on defending Mr. Trump against his four criminal indictments, said he supported an impeachment inquiry against Mr. Biden.

He wants to eliminate unions for teachers and federal workers.

Vivek Ramaswamy has campaigned on a staunchly anti-union argument: That many unions are harmful forces undermining America and should not exist. Among the G.O.P. field, only he and Nikki Haley have been as broad and vehement in denouncing unions.

He says he wouldn’t cut the programs but hasn’t explained how he would keep them solvent.

Vivek Ramaswamy has said he would not touch Social Security or Medicare benefits. “In a shrinking economy, we should not cut entitlements,” he said in July. In an interview with Gray DC a few months earlier, he said that he would not have created the programs, but that people now had “a reasonable expectation” of receiving certain benefits and that “you can’t just pull that rug out from under them.”

He wants to put more people in mental institutions and make it harder to sue police officers.

Vivek Ramaswamy said at the first Republican debate that he would add more police officers and make it harder to sue them.

He calls for prioritizing American interests, and he has suggested a path to phasing out U.S. aid to Israel.

ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR After the Hamas attack in October, Vivek Ramaswamy said on X that other Republicans were reacting with “hysteria rather than rationality.” The United States “should provide Israel with diplomatic support, intelligence-sharing and necessary munitions to defend its own homeland, while taking special care to avoid a broader regional war in the Middle East that would not advance U.S. interests,” he wrote.

He wants to unilaterally remake the government, raise the voting age and ban mail voting.

Vivek Ramaswamy initially condemned Mr. Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election, writing in his book “Nation of Victims” that Jan. 6, 2021, “was a dark day for democracy. The loser of the last election refused to concede the race, claimed the election was stolen, raised hundreds of millions of dollars from loyal supporters, and is considering running for executive office again.”

He wants to close the Department of Education unilaterally and create incentives to remove children from public schools.

Vivek Ramaswamy claims he could close the Department of Education without congressional approval, an unprecedented assertion of presidential power.