Glenn Youngkin praises Trump on economic system, downplays ‘dictator’ fears
Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday stated he would assist Donald Trump if the previous president is the social gathering’s 2024 presidential nominee. He stopped in need of endorsing Trump within the GOP major, the place Trump leads the field by greater than 45 factors.
“Pay attention, he and I’ve completely different kinds, however his insurance policies had been efficient and so they labored,” Youngkin stated on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
A Republican rising star from a purple state, Youngkin reportedly thought-about coming into the 2024 presidential race himself. He finally determined towards it.
Now, as Trump racks up endorsements from Republican senators and governors, Youngkin stays hesitant to embrace his social gathering’s divisive chief. Trump endorsed Youngkin’s profitable run for governor in 2021.
Youngkin downplayed issues that Trump would search “retribution” if he had been handed a second time period, suggesting that historical past and custom would insulate American democracy.
“We did not have kings, we did not have dictators, and God bless George Washington for recognizing that and stepping down after two phrases and establishing the position of the presidency,” Youngkin stated. “That is what America was constructed on, and that is what I believe America will do going ahead.”
Showing alongside Youngkin, Ken Langone, the billionaire Dwelling Depot co-founder, didn’t share the governor’s optimism.
“I fear if Trump wins that it’ll be 4 years of getting even, and that is scary, as a result of we have severe points arising that have to be addressed,” Langone informed the Squawk Field hosts.
Langone has endorsed former United Nations Amb. Nikki Haley for the GOP nomination. However he isn’t the one one sounding alarms about Trump, whose marketing campaign rhetoric vilifying his perceived enemies has more and more been criticized as authoritarian.
The previous president and present Republican major frontrunner in current weeks has vowed to be his supporters’ “retribution” and to be a dictator on “Day 1” if reelected.
Requested to answer Langone’s criticisms, Youngkin as an alternative praised Trump for his political outcomes.
“I believe what we noticed throughout President Trump’s time period was that he actually ruled in a method that delivered good coverage outcomes,” Youngkin stated. “There was an important economic system, we had a safe border, we understood what projecting power around the globe meant. That is the way in which he ruled earlier than.”
