Senator Tim Scott, RSC, said Sunday that he stands by President Joe Biden’s decision to confirm his victory in the 2020 presidential election.
“I will stand by this decision and the next decision to confirm Donald Trump as the next president of the United States,” Scott said. “This week,” he told ABC News.
Scott was widely reported to be on former President Donald Trump’s short list potential vice presidential candidates but his answer could put him at odds with the former president, who will tell Time Magazine in April. hires his administration With people who agree with his false statement that the election was stolen from him in 2020, and admit that Biden won, “it won’t feel good” to hire someone.
Scott, like other Trump aides in recent months evasive questions on whether he would vote to ratify the 2024 presidential election, regardless of who wins, but later clarified that he “of course“vote to confirm the election.
Others on the vice presidential list, such as Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio They also dodged questions about whether they would vote to confirm the upcoming election if Trump doesn’t win.
In 2020, they voted to confirm Rubio and Scott Biden for president, while 147 Republicans in the House and Senate voted against confirming the results of the elections in at least one state.