Posted on 02/03/2023 5:17:42 PM PST by conservative98
While former and potentially future President Donald Trump is the highest profile 2024 contender who has declared, it's only a matter of time before he'll be joined by other big names. Former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), who was also Trump's ambassador to the United Nations, is expected to formally announce later this month, as Matt covered. There's another contender who may be getting closer to announcing though, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC).
There had been some chatter for the past few weeks, but as Fox News' Paul Steinhauser reported on Wednesday, Scott is officially embarking on "Faith in America," a sort of listening tour. Like Haley's announcement, which is coming on February 15, it will also take place later this month.
As Steinhauser explained about the tour:
The tour, which was shared first with Fox News on Wednesday, will kick of later this month with speeches in his home state — which holds the third contest in the Republican Party’s presidential nominating calendar — and in Iowa, whose caucuses kick off the GOP’s race for the White House.
In another sign that will generate more buzz about an increasingly likely White House run, Scott will run digital ads in Iowa ahead of his visit, paid for by his 2022 Senate re-election campaign.
Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate one of the GOP’s top fundraisers, will travel to Iowa to headline the Polk County Republican Party's Lincoln Dinner on Feb. 22 in West Des Moines, as Fox News first reported earlier this week. We’re now learning that the senator earlier that day will deliver remarks on the importance of faith in America in a speech in Des Moines.
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Too much RINO and
too much homely, in my opinion.
Looks shouldn’t matter in public service, but we all know that they do matter.
Steinhauser also touched upon the ways in which the senator himself has hinted at a presidential run:
While Scott has repeatedly demurred when asked about 2024, he hinted in November at a possible future run during his re-election victory celebration by telling the story of how he took his grandfather to the polls in 2012, and that his grandfather proudly voted for him as well as for Democrat Barack Obama, the nation’s first Black president.
“I wish he had lived long enough to see perhaps another man of color elected president of the United States,” Scott said, before adding “but this time let it be a Republican.”
Senator, Stop living your life just being a color. The content of character is what matters. You’re disqualifying yourself with this skin color talk.
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Yes.
And McCarthy and Graham are choosing him for the very same reason they choose Michael Steele.
And look how that turned out.
He went on TV and lashed out at his own party - and praised Barack with all his energy
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Tim Scott endorsed Lisa Murkowski over a rock-solid conservative lady in Alaska.
He resides on the Lindsey/Mitt/Mitch side of the aisle.
Nice to hear guys critiquing guys for looks for a change.
That said, I don’t think he’s particularly bad. Not great, but not bad. I call that “plain”.
Speaking as a woman. A real one, who is hetero.
True.
But may I also just remind these racists, that Uhbama was HALFRICAN. Half-black. Half white. He was criticized for that at first, but then the Dems convinced everyone he was good enough.
He and Nikki can split the Harlem Republican vote.
Tim Scott is another Lindsey Graham...just darker.
The ‘Real Women’ are the only women!
Yes, he’ll be the next irrelevant candidate to declare that is incapable of winning a single delegate to the GOP convention.
Yes, he’ll be the next irrelevant candidate to declare that is incapable of winning a single delegate to the GOP convention.
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He started out his Republican Response to the State of the Union by saying that Joe Biden is a good man.
People are going to buy the Media campaign.
Lindsey’s been pulling his Scam for at least 20 years.
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