Only four veterans of Donald Trump cabinet are backing his 2024 election bid, according to a recent tally.
Only four veterans of former President Donald Trump’s Cabinet are backing his 2024 election bid, a recent tally shows.
Of 44 former Cabinet members surveyed by NBC News, just former chief of staff Mark Meadows, budget chief Russell Vought, acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, and acting director of national intelligence Richard Grenell, are supporting their onetime boss.
“As I have said, I am proudly supporting & endorse Donald J. Trump for president in 2024. He is the only person I trust to take a wrecking ball to the Deep State. I’ve seen his willingness up close & behind closed doors. My friend & former boss is going to finish what he started,” Vought tweeted in May.
Two alumni of the Trump Cabinet, former Vice President Mike Pence, and US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, are running against him in the 2024 fray.
Trump later downgraded the UN ambassador role to a non-Cabinet position after Haley announced her departure.
Some veterans of the Trump Cabinet appear to be keeping their powder dry as the GOP primary process plays out, while others are outright opposing him.
“I hired ten to one that were fantastic. We had a great economy. We had phenomenal people,” Trump told Fox New’s Bret Baier when pressed on the lack of support from administration veterans last month.
