Sen. Tim Scott said Monday morning that President Donald Trump has two main threats to his reelection campaign: Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders.

In an interview on “CBS This Morning,” host Gayle King asked Scott (R-S.C.) if he thought the Democratic frontrunner Sanders was in fact the biggest threat to Trump in November.


“I would say that the biggest threat to President Trump is President Trump,” Scott said. “If he’s on his game, as he was at the State of the Union, I don’t think there’s a candidate in the country that can beat him. If there is a second choice, other than himself, it would be Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders brings that outside game in a similar fashion that President Trump did in 2016.”