In a rare Republican rebuke of President Donald Trump, Vermont Governor Phil Scott endorsed challenger Bill Weld in the upcoming March 3 state primary.
In a rare Republican rebuke of President Donald Trump, Vermont GOP Governor Phil Scott endorsed challenger Bill Weld in the state's upcoming March 3 primary.
Scott offered his endorsement Saturday of Weld, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts, who is challenging Trump in the GOP presidential primaries, WPTZ-TV first reported. After losing to Trump in the New Hampshire primary last week, Weld said he would extend his campaign at least through the March 3"Super Tuesday" primaries which includes Vermont and 13 other states across the country. Scott identifies with the libertarian wing of the Republican Party alongside Weld, and had previously suggested he might endorse a GOP primary challenger to Trump's 2020 re-election campaign last year.
"Governor Weld is someone who is on the ticket, I've met with him before, I think a lot of him and his platform so I would be supporting him," Scott said Saturday. Scott's endorsement of Weld comes just three ahead of the Vermont primary and puts himself forth as one of the few state or local Republicans across the country to embrace one of Trump's long-shot primary challengers. Former Illinois GOP Congressman Joe Walsh ended his primary challenge against Trump on February 7, and former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford ended his primary challenge in November.
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