Trump Trashes Electric Vehicles Standing in Front of GOP Governor Who Supports Them - Rolling Stone
Donald Trumpderided electric vehicles as inefficient and “ridiculous” during a stump speech as South Carolina’s Governor Henry McMaster, a proponent of EVs, stood behind him.
The Republican governor invited the former president to the state capitol for an event introducing the Trump campaign’s South Carolina leadership team on Saturday.But as Associated Press national politics reporter, Meg Kinnard, noted in a tweet, McMaster mere months ago signed an executive order to entice electrical vehicle-related businesses to the state.In October, he signed an executive order to prioritize recruitment of businesses related to electric vehicles and establish a jobs training program.In 2021, South Carolina won a $155 million contract for Oshkosh Defense to build United States Postal Service neighborhood delivery vehicles, which it says will create more than 1,000 jobs.Instead the governor lavished praise on the former president, saying, “In Nov. 2024, we will re-elect Donald Trump, and we will see a burst of freedom and prosperity unlike we have ever seen before.”