Nikki Haley is getting DESPERATE, says Trump surrogate Tim Scott in response to 2024 hopeful’s son calling him ‘Senator Judas’

Tim Scott says 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley is becoming so “desperate” to win the South Carolina primary that she’s using her son Nalin, 22, to stoop to swearing.

Senator Scott (R-S.C.) is one of Trump’s top surrogates in South Carolina, which is also Haley’s home state. And ahead of the primaries there this Saturday, Haley’s son has gone full force against Trump’s team.

Nalin Haley’s son has used the nickname “Senator Judas” for Scott, who dropped out of the 2024 race in November and endorsed Trump.

Former United Nations Ambassador. Haley first appointed Scott to his Senate seat in 2013, when she was governor of South Carolina.

“Politics makes people and their families desperate,” Scott told CBS Face the Nation host Robert Costa during an interview Sunday morning when asked about Nalin’s shot.

“It is unfortunate for a person of high caliber of an individual that she has had to resign herself to having her and her family refer to me – or anyone else – as Judas Iscariot, or any other epithet,” he added to. .

“The one thing I want to say to your viewers: When you’re attacked, remember this: Don’t accept criticism from someone who wouldn’t ask you for advice.”

However, Scott does not want to say whether he is also calling on Trump to stop calling Haley ‘birdbrain’.

Haley lost the primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. In the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, Trump has 63 delegates, compared to Haley’s 17.

She now plans to attract more delegates in South Carolina next week — based on the fact that she has been elected governor twice and is popular among Republicans in the Palmetto State. But polls show Trump still far ahead of Haley in the South Carolina primary.

The former ambassador’s campaign emphasized that it plans to continue at least until Super Tuesday, when 15 different states will go to the polls in their respective primaries.

Nalin, 22, joins mother Nikki Haley during the NCAA college basketball game between Iowa and Minnesota on Saturday, December 30, 2023 in Iowa City, Iowa

Meanwhile, Haley’s son Nalin and daughter Rena, 26, have joined her on the campaign trail while her husband Maj. Michael Haley is deployed in Africa with the South Carolina National Guard.

Nalin has become a real attack dog against his mother’s former rivals.

The Villanova University senior branded Senator Scott a traitor and compared biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, who dropped out of the race last month, to the likeness of the clown Pennywise from the horror movie It.

Both Scott and Ramaswamy were once among the top competitors in the Republican primary field. Both dropped out and have since supported Trump.

Ramaswamy spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin wondered in a statement to DailyMail.com: “Didn’t Haley say to keep the kids out of it and now she’s using them as attack dogs?”

At a rally in Gilbert, South Carolina on Saturday, Nalin took his time during his remarks suggesting his mother attack Scott.

“We had a lot of them go to New Hampshire,” Nalin noted, “and I saw Trump standing side by side, standing next to Senator Judas – excuse me, Senator Scott.”

The jab earned him ‘oohs’ from the crowd, with one audience member saying ‘Ouch’.

Haley’s husband, Major Michael Haley, is deployed to Africa with the Army National Guard and is unable to campaign with his wife. But Nalin and Rena Haley, 26, have joined their mother as she travels across the country

Scott said Sunday he “prays for those who persecute you” and says to “love your enemies” while encouraging forgiveness.

“I know they’re in a heated race, I know it’s not going their way,” he said on Sunday. “They’re going to lose their home state. It will be a devastating loss here in South Carolina. It was a devastating loss in New Hampshire.”

“There’s no state emerging that she’s going to win. So I get the name calling. But honestly, it’s not about me. It’s about the American people.”