Sen. Tim Scott on Sunday dismissed former President Donald Trump’s relentless attacks on Republican rival Nikki Haley and suggested her rhetoric was even worse.
Fox News host Shannon Bream asked Scott (R-South Carolina) about Trump’s presidency. Birth conspiracy propaganda Haley, 52, worried she might not be able to run, questioned the whereabouts of her deployed husband, and called her “bird brain.”
“The Haley campaign and her family call me Judas Iscariot,” Scott countered on “Fox News Sunday.”
“We’re hearing a lot of things from the Haley camp that not only match the rhetoric from the Trump side, but actually go further than that.”
Earlier this month, Haley’s son Nalin called Scott, 58, “Senator Judas, excuse me, Senator Scott” during a rally.
The jab was in reference to how Haley appointed him to fill a Senate vacancy in 2013 when he was governor of the Palmetto state.
Scott, who withdrew from the 2024 campaign last November, threw his full weight behind the 77-year-old Trump last month. He is widely believed to be aiming to be President Trump’s running mate.
“I don’t know what Nikki is doing right now. I think she’s definitely desperate,” Scott said. “There are no more states where she can win.
“Even in New Hampshire, we lost women voters to Donald Trump,” he added. “She lost her millennials to Donald Trump. She lost her seniors to Donald Trump.”
Scott also predicted that Trump would continue his landslide victory in his home state of South Carolina, where the primary election is scheduled for February 24th.
The senator cleaned up Sunday morning, appeared on several high-profile shows, and weighed in on several hot-button issues.
Asked on CBS’ “Face the Nation” about the vice president’s role on the day the electoral votes are counted during a joint session of Congress, Scott sheepishly answered:
“What I’m not going to do is answer hypothetical questions about the past,” Scott replied, adding, “The Constitution is very clear.”
Asked if he supported his decision to certify the 2020 election, Scott said, “Of course I do.”
The South Carolina Republican also sidestepped a question about whether the Republican National Committee should take up President Trump’s growing bill.
“Americans are more focused on their future than they are on Donald Trump’s past,” he said.
President Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll in a defamation lawsuit, and on Friday was ordered to pay about $355 million in a New York fraud case. It also includes interest and other penalties that could add up to more than $450 million.
In addition, President Trump faces a total of 91 criminal charges spread across four indictments, the first of which goes to trial on March 25 on charges of falsifying business records to conceal hush money payments. I’m planning on heading there.
Scott spoke on CNN’s “State of the Union” about Trump’s suggestion that he would not protect NATO allies who do not meet their defense obligations and the 45th president’s silence on the death of Russian dissident Alexia Navalny. He defended Trump from criticism.
“When President Trump was our president, there was no invasion of Ukraine like there was under President Obama,” he said.
“When President Trump left office, there was an actual all-out war in Ukraine,” he said, before going on to say that under Trump, “Ukraine is safer, the world is safer, and America is certainly safer.” ” he claimed.
Asked about Scott’s statement three months ago declaring that it was “absolutely essential that NATO members be protected from Russian forces,” the senator said: “I was 100 percent right at the time.” Ta.
