The former Arkansas governor also struggled to come up with 20 songs like Ramaswamy, he managed a total of eight. Asa Hutchinson: Johnny Cash, Garth Brooks, P ink One can only imagine how proud these musicians would be of Elder’s views – his preferred minimum wage of “$0.00”, his assertion that “ women know less than men about political issues”, and his support for ending birthright citizenship and allowing the denial of emergency care to undocumented people. It was a time of youthful idealism, of fights for civil rights and gender equality and against war. Photograph: Dale Zanine/USA Today SportsĮlder grew up in the 60s, and his favorite songs are mostly from that turbulent era – Sam Cooke, Gladys Knight, the Beatles. Gladys Knight performs the national anthem. Either he has taste so eclectic it’s verging on bizarre, or he closed his eyes and jabbed at random sentences on the Wikipedia page for “American popular music”. Will Hurd: A Tri be Called Quest, Demi Lovato, MatisyahuĬredit where credit is due: this former congressman who will never be president has a very interesting list, including tracks from A Tribe Called Quest, Hootie & the Blowfish, Matisyahu and Demi Lovato. In a country that can feel so divided, it’s nice to know that politicians can agree on which songs are most likely to make them look good. He’s not the only candidate to have a rocky relationship with one of his musical heroes – Springsteen has rejected performance invitations from Christie and mocked him on TV, though they did hug once after Hurricane Sandy.Īnd like Christie, Ramaswamy has chosen Aerosmith’s Dream On like Haley, he’s into Dolly Parton’s Jolene. Photograph: Stefani Reynolds/AFP/Getty ImagesĮminem’s Lose Yourself tops Ramaswamy’s list, presumably to the artist’s chagrin: Eminem recently told the politician never to perform his song again after Ramaswamy started rapping at the Iowa State Fair. Vivek Ramaswamy raps at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines. (That said, it is an absolute banger.) Beyond an inability to count, he also appears to have trouble following directions: he has two songs by the banal pop outfit Imagine Dragons, despite Politico’s one-song-per-artist rule. The Harvard-educated businessman apparently doesn’t know 20 songs: he only submitted eight pieces of music, and one isn’t a song – it’s Mozart’s Rondo Alla Turca, a staple of fifth-grade piano recitals.
Vivek Ramaswamy: Imagine Dragons, Imagine Dragons, Mozart Tough to imagine why a song about cheating, lies and paranoia would appeal to two Republican presidential candidates. Haley and Christie have something else in common: a love for the Killers’ Mr Brightside. Then again, Chapman is from Ohio – a swing state. Or perhaps, like Christie, she’s trying to flex her home-state credentials (Combs is from North rather than South Carolina, but they’re close).
Maybe that version has somehow slipped under her radar for the past 35 years. The only other recent hit on her list is Fast Car – the 2023 version by Luke Combs, rather than the 1988 original by Tracy Chapman, a bona fide American classic. Does she cut a rug to lines like “I feel you crumble in my arms down to your heart of stone / You bled me dry just like the tears you never show” while mulling over policy ideas? It’s unclear how she stumbled on this song the year after she stepped down as Donald Trump’s UN ambassador, and what about it stirred her soul.
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