Elizabeth Warren endorses Scott Brown for Veterans Affairs secretary
Brown later thanked Warren for her support: "#truce."
There’s one potential Donald Trump appointment Sen. Elizabeth Warren says she would support: her former rival Scott Brown.
Despite retaining a bitter public relationship, the Massachusetts Democrat did not mince words in her support for her former fellow Bay Stater’s potential nomination for Veterans Affairs secretary.
“Listen, if Scott Brown is the nominee for Veterans Affairs, I have no doubt that he would put his heart and soul into trying to help veterans,” said Warren, who unseated the former Republican senator in a heated 2012 race, in an interview Thursday on WGBH’s Boston Public Radio.
“I would put my heart and soul into trying to help him do that,” she added. “You bet I’d support him for that.”
In a tweet Thursday afternoon, Brown thanked Warren for her “kind words” and suggested a truce to their ongoing squabbles.
My thanks to @SenWarren for her kind words. If nom. for SecVA, I will welcome her support, passion and help to serve our Vets. #truce
— Scott P. Brown (@SenScottBrown) December 1, 2016
Brown, who served in the Army National Guard for 35 years, has said Trump told him he is under consideration for VA secretary. The former Massachusetts senator-turned-New Hampshire resident was an early endorser of the now-President-elect’s presidential campaign. Former Republican Alaska governor and vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is also reportedly among the candidates to head the VA.
Warren also had praise for Mitt Romney, but wasn’t willing to throw her support behind the former Massachusetts governor’s secretary of state candidacy just yet.
“I’d like to hear more, but I think Mitt Romney is a smart man, and I think he’s got a pretty level headed view of the world,” Warren said. “Can I just hold until we get a chance to see the nominees and meet the nominees?”
The Massachusetts senator has already vocally criticized many of Trump’s appointments. In a CNN appearance Wednesday night, Warren was unable to name a Trump cabinet pick to-date of which she approved.
“But there’s a lot of good stuff to say about [Romney],” she added Thursday.
Listen to the full interview over at WGBH.
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