Republican congressmen Marjorie Taylor Green, Georgia, and Matt Gates, Florida, attended former President Trump’s first official campaign rally on Saturday, taking turns battling presidential candidate Nikki Haley. gave.
The rally was held in Waco, Texas, on the 30th anniversary of federal agents burning down a complex belonging to the Davidian religious cult. A federal law enforcement siege killed more than 80 of him, including nearly 30 children. But Trump’s team says the location and timing of the rally had nothing to do with the siege.
Greene and Gates, both Trump allies, made statements in support of the former president at Saturday’s rally.
Both delegates criticized Haley, the former governor of South Carolina and former ambassador to the United Nations under Trump, for her foreign policy agenda, while also questioning whether she was a serious presidential candidate. .
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Republicans Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and Rep. Matt Gates of Florida criticized presidential candidate Nikki Haley at the Trump campaign rally on Saturday. (Getty)
A Georgia lawmaker knocked Haley out as Trump’s legitimate presidential opponent, saying no one had a “list of names” for the former president to “clean up the swamp.”
“Here’s what we know about President Trump: ‘President Trump has a list of names and no one else has it. Ron DeSantis doesn’t have it.’ Haley or whoever she is, she doesn’t have anything like that, and no one else knows how to wipe that list swamp like President Trump.”
Green’s bargain at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis came despite him not announcing a run for president, but he is expected to be in the race in the coming months. Trump has repeatedly attacked the governor of Florida, widely seen as the former president’s greatest threat to the 2024 Republican nomination.
Green and Gates attacked Nikki Haley over her foreign policy agenda and legitimacy as a presidential candidate. (Rhonda Churchill/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
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In Gates’ speech targeting Haley, he mocked an earlier comment she made in the campaign video.
“Nikki Haley says we have to kick every bully in the world in the heel,” Gates said at the rally. You can’t kick and shout all over the world and start a new war behind every dune in the Middle East.”
“So Nikki Haley can keep her heels in,” he continued. “What we do know is that President Donald Trump will bring America’s enemies to their knees.”
Greene and Gates’ comments were made during President Trump’s first official campaign rally. (Associated Press)
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Mr. Trump has stepped up his attacks on Ms. DeSantis in recent months, but has not taken the same approach to Ms. Haley, who hailed last month’s presidential election as “more is better.”
“I’m glad she’s running,” Trump told FOX News Digital at the time. She said, “I want her to follow her own heart — even though she promised never to stand up to what she called her greatest president in her lifetime..”
Entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy has also declared a run for president, and other Republicans are considering running for the White House, including DeSantis, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and former Vice President Mike Pence.
