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CONCORD, N.H. – Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina – minutes after endorsing Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination – telling Fox Information it is time for the GOP to rally across the former president.
“It is time for us to unite our occasion in order that we ensure that the one goal we’re speaking about is firing Joe Biden,” Scott emphasised after formally backing the previous president at a Trump marketing campaign rally in New Hampshire’s state capital metropolis.
“One of the best ways for us to do away with Joe Biden as our president is to unite our occasion now behind Donald Trump,” Scott added.
Scott, who ended his personal White Home bid in November, grew to become the third former Republican presidential candidate up to now week to endorse Trump.
TIM SCOTT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP FOUR DAYS BEFORE THE NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., speaks as Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens at a marketing campaign occasion in Harmony, N.H., Friday, Jan. 19, 2024. (AP Picture/Matt Rourke)
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum teamed up with Trump at a rally in Indianola, Iowa final weekend as he backed Trump. And multi-millionaire biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy endorsed Trump on Monday evening, as he suspended his personal marketing campaign following a dismal end in Iowa’s caucuses. Ramaswamy joined Trump at a rally in Atkinson, New Hamphire the following night.
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And it isn’t simply former Republican presidential nomination rivals.
Scott, the one Black Republican within the Senate, turns into the twenty sixth GOP lawmaker within the higher chamber to again Trump. Practically 120 Home Republicans are additionally supporting Trump, as are 10 governors.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks at a marketing campaign occasion in Portsmouth, N.H., Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. (AP Picture/Matt Rourke) (AP Picture/Matt Rourke)
Trump, the commanding front-runner for the nomination as he makes his third straight White Home run, is leagues forward of his two remaining GOP 2024 rivals – Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N.ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – in relation to endorsements.
“It is bizarre to see such an outsider having everybody in D.C. behind him, and unifying the occasion at such an early stage,” veteran Republican strategist Matthew Bartlett instructed Fox Information.
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Pointing to Tuesday’s New Hampshire GOP presidential main, the place surveys recommend Trump holds a double-digit lead over Haley with DeSantis a distant third in single digits, Bartlett mentioned “we’ll see what occurs on Tuesday, however proper now this seems to be like a normal election marketing campaign.”
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican presidential candidate, holds a information convention at Saint Anselm School, on Jan. 19, 2024 in Manchester, New Hampshire (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
A 12 months in the past, on the daybreak of 2023, the previous president was the one declared candidate within the race for the Republican nomination.
Nevertheless, he was removed from a positive factor.
DeSantis, recent off an awesome gubernatorial re-election lower than two months earlier, was neck and neck with Trump in a number of the early 2024 polls.
The previous president was nonetheless dealing with loads of criticism by fellow Republicans for contributing to the GOP’s lackluster efficiency within the 2022 midterms.
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Moreover, Trump’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign launch at his Mar-a-Lago membership in Palm Seaside, Florida, a few weeks after the midterms was panned by many pundits.
However Trump’s 4 indictments final 12 months, together with prices he tried to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss, have solely boosted his help amongst Republican presidential main voters.
Republican presidential candidate former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley chats with company and prospects whereas visiting Newfields Nation Retailer throughout a marketing campaign cease, Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, in Newfields, N.H. (AP Picture/Charles Krupa) (AP Picture/Charles Krupa)
On Monday, Trump squashed the competitors within the Iowa caucuses, the primary contest on the GOP nominating calendar.
Whereas Haley and DeSantis stay within the struggle for the Republican nomination, Matt Mowers instructed Fox Information “lots of of us are beginning to look previous the first.”
However Mowers, a veteran of the Trump State Division who later received the 2020 Reublican nomination in New Hampshire’s first congressional district, highlighted that “New Hampshire tends to shock at instances too, so we’ll see the way it all shakes out.”
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