Video taking off 34x its usual first day

Don Lemon links Ramaswamy's Ohio defeat to his Trump loyalty

His direct-to-camera message drew nearly 240,000 views in nine hours, an unusually fast start for one of his Shorts.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 423,910 views a day, 34 times a normal first day on this channel (12,464).

Vivek took a HUGE loss in the election last night and I saw it coming!

"Vivek! Hi, it's me, Don." Don Lemon opens with a greeting, but the message that follows is a pointed assessment of Vivek Ramaswamy's political career: a failed presidential bid, an embrace of Donald Trump and now defeat in Ohio.

The Short, presented under the on-screen banner "LEMON'S SQUEEZE," responds to Ramaswamy's loss to Democrat Amy Acton in the governor's race. Lemon interprets the result as a personal rejection by voters and questions what Ramaswamy gained from his loyalty to Trump. His answer: "Another concession speech. Nothing."

Ramaswamy withdrew from the Republican presidential primaries in 2024 and endorsed Trump. That sequence gives Lemon's commentary its structure, although his conclusion about voters' motives is an argument, not something the election result alone establishes.

The clip's early views already far exceed the channel's usual full first day for a Short. Its comment section has also grown well beyond the usual first-day volume, making this a particularly busy response to Lemon's post-election commentary.

Elsewhere on the channel, "Womp Womp Trump" and "I didn't know the Republican Party was full of SORE LOSERS!" also drew unusually large audiences for Lemon's Shorts. The Ramaswamy clip takes a narrower approach than those party-wide reactions: one candidate, addressed directly, with his presidential campaign and Ohio defeat folded into the same political critique.

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