Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., said Sunday he stood by his decision to certify President Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election.
“I will stand by that decision and the next decision to affirm the fact that Donald Trump will be the next president of the United States,” Scott told ABC News’ This Week.
Scott is widely said to be on former President Donald Trump’s short list of possible vice presidential picks, but his answer could put him at odds with the presumptive Republican nominee, who told Time Magazine in April that he would end his administration staff with people who agree with his false statement that the 2020 election was stolen from him and that he “wouldn’t feel good” about hiring someone who admitted Biden won.
Scott, like other Trump acolytes in recent months, has dodged questions about whether he would vote to certify the 2024 presidential election regardless of who wins, but later made it clear that he would “certainly” vote to certify the election certify.
Others on the vice president’s shortlist, such as Florida GOP Sen. Marco Rubio, have also dodged questions about whether they would vote to certify the upcoming election if Trump did not win.
In 2020, Rubio and Scott voted to certify Biden’s victory in the presidential election, while 147 Republicans in the House and Senate voted against certifying the election results in at least one state.
This article was originally published on NBCNews.com
