{"id":15166,"date":"2024-02-06T12:46:48","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/tim-scott-responds-to-trump-considering-him-for-vice-president-the-only-thing-i-can-tell-you-is\/"},"modified":"2024-02-06T12:46:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T12:46:48","slug":"tim-scott-responds-to-trump-considering-him-for-vice-president-the-only-thing-i-can-tell-you-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/06\/tim-scott-responds-to-trump-considering-him-for-vice-president-the-only-thing-i-can-tell-you-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott responds to Trump considering him for vice president: \u2018The only thing I can tell you is\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has responded to Donald Trump\u2019s consideration of him as his vice presidential running mate for the general election in November, telling Fox News Digital his top priority was ensuring the former president beats Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Trump revealed to Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo over the weekend he is considering Scott, along with South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, while detailing what criteria he\u2019d like to see in a running mate.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018The only thing I can tell you is that the one thing we need is four more years of President Donald Trump,\u2019 Scott told Fox News Digital on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018We were better off under Trump. In order for us to be successful, the one thing I can\u2019t afford to do is take my eye off the ball. The eye on the ball means making sure that President Trump gets four more years,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<p>After revealing his criteria for a running mate, which included ensuring the individual would be able to step up and handle the presidency in the case of an emergency, Trump said he likely won\u2019t announce a vice presidential pick \u2018for a little while.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018What criteria are you using to identify who your running mate is?\u2019 Bartiromo asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Always, it\u2019s got to be who is going to be a good president. Obviously, you always have to think that because in case of emergency. Things happen, right? No matter who you are, things happen. That\u2019s got to be No. 1,\u2019 Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Who is your running mate?\u2019 Bartiromo said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Well, I have a lot of good people. I have a lot of good ideas,\u2019 he added, saying he \u2018talks to everybody.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018You know, I called [South Carolina Sen.] Tim Scott and people like Tim Scott, and I said you\u2019re a much better candidate for me than you are for yourself,\u2019 Trump said. \u2018When I watched him, he was fine. He was good, but he was very low-key.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I watched him in the last week, defending me and sticking up for me and fighting for me. I said, \u2018Man, you\u2019re a much better person for me than you are for yourself,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Trump went on to praise Noem as well, noting that she said publicly that she would never run against him \u2018because I could never beat him.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Trump denied reports that his campaign reached out to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to explore a potential ticket with him early on in the campaign season. Trump said the interaction \u2018never happened.\u2019<\/p>\n\n<div>This post appeared first on FOX NEWS<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott has responded to Donald Trump\u2019s consideration of him as his vice presidential running mate for the general election in November, telling Fox News Digital his top priority was ensuring the former president beats Joe Biden. Trump revealed to Fox News\u2019 Maria Bartiromo over the weekend he is considering Scott, <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":15167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15166","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}