Unnamed GOP advisor dismissed surging Vivek Ramaswamy as noisy 'fajitas that go by you at the restaurant'

• An unnamed advisor to a GOP presidential hopeful was snark about Vivek Ramaswamy's rise.
• The advisor told Semafor that Ramaswamy is like noisy "fajitas that go by you at the restaurant."

An unnamed Republican presidential campaign advisor apparently has never truly enjoyed Applebee's.

An advisor to an unknown GOP hopeful is so annoyed by conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy that they compared the surging foe to noisy "fajitas."

"Vivek is like the fajitas that go by you at the restaurant," one advisor on a rival campaign told Semafor. "They make noise, look exciting, and come on the fun plate. But if you order it, it's too much, too annoying to assemble, and you wish you just ordered tacos."

In response, a Ramaswamy advisor pointed out that he's "more of an enchilada kinda guy."

"It's revealing that Vivek's anonymous detractors in other campaigns feel overwhelmed by fajita assembly," Senior adviser Tricia McLaughlin told Insider in a statement. "Tells you something about the skill and work ethic of his opponents in this race."

Besides being wrong about head-turning fajitas, the snark underlines how Ramaswamy's rise is starting to grate on some of his fellow primary foes. A political neophyte, Ramaswamy is ahead of former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, Sen. Tim Scott, and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie in national polling, per FiveThirtyEight's weighted average. By all accounts, he is on track to easily qualify for the first Republican presidential primary debate next month in Milwaukee.

It is an incredible jump for a candidate who started the race virtually non-existent on the national stage. Former President Donald Trump has even taken notice, praising the 37-year-old who has based his platform on a broad denouncement of an increasingly "woke" society along with proposing significant changes in US policy such as ending the FBI, reining in the Federal Reserve's power, and limiting the expansion of US businesses in China.

While Ramaswamy's rise is notable it also underlines how little change has happened at the top. Trump maintains a commanding lead in national polling. The former president has flirted with skipping the first debate as a result.