GREENVILLE, S.C. — Former President Trump indicated that not less than a half a dozen contenders — together with three former rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination — are on his shortlist for working mate.
The commanding frontrunner for the GOP nomination had loads of reward for a kind of potential candidates who joined Trump at Fox Information city corridor on Tuesday on this upstate South Carolina metropolis.
Throughout this system, which ran on Fox Information’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump was requested about half a dozen potential working mate decisions: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, multimillionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, and former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a Democrat turned unbiased.
“Are all of them in your shortlist?” host Laura Ingraham requested the previous president.
“They’re,” Trump answered. “Actually, all of these persons are good. They’re all good, they’re all stable.”
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Former President Trump sits for a city corridor hosted by Laura Ingraham on Fox Information’ “The Ingraham Angle” in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday. (Paul Steinhauser – Fox Information )
Trump has a historical past of creating feedback off the cuff, and lots of within the political world see DeSantis as Trump’s working mate as a stretch, because the two and their camps blasted one another for over a yr earlier than the Florida governor suspended his 2024 marketing campaign final month simply forward of the New Hampshire main.
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DeSantis endorsed Trump on the time however has not joined him on the marketing campaign path within the ensuing weeks. Actually, DeSantis was additionally in South Carolina on Tuesday for an official occasion and didn’t group up with Trump.
Ramaswamy, who has lengthy been a powerful supporter of Trump’s America First agenda, dropped his White Home bid final month after the Iowa caucuses and endorsed the previous president. He has teamed up with Trump a number of occasions since then and campaigned on behalf of Trump in South Carolina on Tuesday.
Former President Trump, proper, seems to be to Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., throughout a Fox Information Channel city corridor in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday. (AP Photograph/Chris Carlson)
Scott, the one Black Republican within the Senate, suspended his presidential bid in November and enthusiastically endorsed Trump in New Hampshire final month. He has additionally joined the previous president on the marketing campaign path in South Carolina the previous two weeks.
Scott — as he arrived on the Greenville Conference Middle — obtained a heat welcome from the big crowd of largely Trump supporters within the viewers.
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“Lots of people are speaking about that gentleman proper over there,” Trump mentioned, as he pointed to Scott, who was sitting within the entrance row of the viewers.
“He’s been such a terrific advocate. I’ve to say this in a really constructive means, Tim Scott, he has been a lot better for me than he was for himself. I watched his marketing campaign, and he doesn’t like speaking about himself. However, boy, does he discuss Trump,” the previous president mentioned of Scott. “I referred to as him and I mentioned, ‘Tim, you’re higher for me than you had been for your self.’”
Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina receives a heat welcome from the viewers at a Fox Information city corridor with former President Trump in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)
Of the opposite three on the listing that Trump acknowledged, the conservative Noem is a longtime sturdy Trump supporter and surrogate, as is Donalds, a Black congressman on the proper who’s a high Trump ally within the Home.
Gabbard, who served within the Iraq Conflict and ran unsuccessfully for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, turned more and more vital of her social gathering after she left Congress. Two years in the past, Gabbard turned an unbiased and has turn out to be a favourite amongst conservatives.
The Trump city corridor was held 4 days earlier than Saturday’s Republican presidential main in South Carolina, the place polls point out Trump maintains a really giant double-digit lead over his final remaining main rival — former U.N. ambassador and former Palmetto State Gov. Nikki Haley.
Haley, in a speech in Greenville a few hours earlier than Trump landed within the metropolis, mentioned that “a few of you — maybe just a few of you within the media — got here right here right now to see if I’m dropping out of the race. Nicely, I’m not. Removed from it.”
“I refuse to stop. South Carolina will vote on Saturday. However on Sunday, I’ll nonetheless be working for president. I’m not going wherever,” Haley emphasised.
She added that “I’ve no concern of Trump’s retribution.”
Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley, a former two-term South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador, greets supporters after delivering a speech in Greenville, South Carolina, on Tuesday. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox Information)
When requested about Haley’s feedback, Trump mentioned throughout the Fox Information city corridor that “you’re not alleged to lose your private home state. It shouldn’t occur anyway, and she or he’s dropping it bigly.”
“I don’t assume she is aware of the right way to get out,” Trump surmised. “She simply can’t get herself to get out.”
Trump reiterated that he has dominated out Haley as his working mate.
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