Four years after engaging in a nasty and contentious Senate fight, Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren is expressing support for former Republican Sen. Scott Brown taking over as President-elect Trump’s secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
In a radio interview with Boston Public Radio on Thursday, Warren gave a full-throated endorsement of the former Massachusetts senator for the post, which Brown has been lobbying for over the past two weeks. The two engaged in one of the most expensive U.S. Senate contests in history in 2012, two years before Brown launched an unsuccessful bid for Senate in New Hampshire.
“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,” Warren said. “And I would put my heart and soul into trying to help him do that. You bet I’d support him for that.”
Warren also intimated that she would be open to supporting former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney if he is nominated to run the State Department. She said that the 2012 Republican presidential nominee has a “pretty level-headed view” of the world.
“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, adding that “there’s a lot of good stuff to say about him.”
Since his victory last month, Warren has been a vocal critic of Trump. Most recently, she panned the decision to nominate Steve Mnuchin as treasury secretary because of his past as a banker at Goldman Sachs.
