evidence: Vivek Ramaswamy didn’t attract all that much attention when he launched his presidential bid in February. A 37-year-old multimillionaire who made his fortune working at a hedge fund and then as a biotechnology entrepreneur, Ramaswamy had never served in government and was new to politics. He began making a name for himself as an "anti-woke" crusader, but it wasn’t a name that most Republican voters had heard about. [...] Add in a communications strategy that includes talking to any outlet across the spectrum and doing as much media as his campaign can handle, and Ramaswamy can come across as the Republican answer to Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, who himself rose out of relative obscurity as an Ivy League-educated small-town mayor in the 2020 Democratic primary field before dropping out and backing President Joe Biden.