By Evaristo Lara
Feb 23, 2024, 16:46 PM EST
The South Carolina senator who now aspires to be part of Donald Trump’s cabinet If the New Yorker becomes president again, he maintains that Republican candidate Nikki Haley should end her campaign for the benefit of her party.
Despite much of the momentum in the African-American politician’s career since he was elevated by Nikki Haley from her House seat to the U.S. Senate to fill a vacancy left by Sen. Jim DeMint’s retirement in 2012, The relationship between the two went overboard when they decided to run for the Republican candidacy.
At the beginning of his campaign, the South Carolina senator tried not to attack his adversaries, but above all to politics with Hindu roots.
However, as the race intensified to position himself better among republican citizens, Scott chose to try to showcase the former governor in order to strengthen her image.
Starting in the second Republican debate, the African-American senator criticized Haley for her proposal to increase the gasoline tax in her home state during the period in which she governed it and also for having approved a purchase of curtains worth $50,000 when she served. as UN ambassador.
From then on, they did not speak again until the time came when Haley asked for his support to back her up leaving only her and Donald Trump in the dispute for the candidacy. However, Scott leaned toward the nation’s former president.
“He didn’t call, he didn’t text. He didn’t tell me he was going to do this. I texted him and said, ‘Look, I want to sit down and talk.’ Since we’d only spoken once since then, I said, ‘I’d love to sit down and talk about an endorsement.’
He said, ‘I’ll meet with my team to resolve that.’ And I never heard anything else until her support,” the Republican mentioned during an interview with the television network. CNN.
Surprisingly, after Trump accepted that Tim Scott is one of the possible options to consider as his running mate, The African-American returned to the charge against Nikki Haley through a strong statement issued during an intervention in cnn.
“The only person standing in the way of a conversation between Joe Biden and Donald Trump is Nikki Haley, so getting out of the way is incredibly important, not for the party but for the future of America,” he said.
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