Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took aim at pharmaceutical executive Vivek Ramaswamy during Wednesday night’s second Republican Party primary debate over his past business ties to communist China.
Scott’s attack comes after he was overshadowed and largely quiet during the first Republican Party primary debate last month and has hovered around 2-3% in the polls, according to the RealClearPolitics average.
Scott took issue with Ramaswamy for saying during the debate that all the Republican candidates on stage were good people after he had accused them during the first debate of being “bought and paid for.”
“When we have a conversation about the things that are happening on this stage, we think about the fact that Vivek just said we were all ‘good people,’ and I appreciate that,” Scott said. “Because last debate, he said we were all ‘bought and paid for.’”
“And I thought about that for a little while, and said, you know, I can’t imagine how you could say that, knowing that…