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Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina endorsed former President Trump within the 2024 Republican nomination race on Friday.
Scott, who in November ended his personal run for the White Home, introduced his help for Trump alongside the previous president at a rally Friday night in Harmony, New Hampshire.
“We’d like, you see, we want a president who does not see Black or White. We’d like a president who sees Individuals as one American household,” Scott stated. “And that is why I got here to the very heat state of New Hampshire to endorse the subsequent president of those United States, President Donald Trump.”
Each Trump, who’s the commanding front-runner within the GOP nomination race, and former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley referred to as the senator in latest days as they each tried to safe Scott’s endorsement, sources affirm.
Whereas Scott’s presidential marketing campaign did not ignite, he stays highly regarded with Republican major voters and his endorsement has been closely coveted by the remaining GOP candidates.
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Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is interviewed by Fox Information Digital within the spin room following the third GOP presidential nomination debate in Miami on Nov. 8, 2023. (Fox Information – Paul Steinhauser)
As Scott ended his presidential bid, he made clear that he had no fast plans to help one other candidate. However sources in his political orbit advised Fox Information on the time that the senator remained open to backing a candidate.
Scott’s backing of Trump, whom the senator not often criticized on the marketing campaign path throughout his White Home run, is the newest main endorsement for the previous president within the state that holds the primary Southern major within the GOP nomination race.
South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., have lengthy supported Trump.
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The state’s Feb. 24 Republican presidential major is the subsequent main contest within the Republican schedule following Tuesday’s New Hampshire major. The competition is winner-take-all, which implies the victor within the Palmetto State will seize all 50 Republican delegates at stake.
Scott, the one Black Republican within the Senate, launched his presidential marketing campaign in Could at an occasion in North Charleston, South Carolina.
Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., hugs his mom, Frances Scott, as he proclaims his run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination at a marketing campaign occasion in North Charleston, S.C., on Could 22, 2023. (Allison Joyce/Getty Photographs)
Standing just some miles from the place he grew up, Scott highlighted that “we dwell within the land the place it’s doable for a child raised in poverty by a single mom in a small condo to at some point serve within the Folks’s Home and perhaps even the White Home.”
The senator advised Fox Information on the time he was “shocked on the starvation for one thing optimistic so long as its anchored in conservatism. So long as you could have a spine.”
However his optimistic and uplifting message did not resonate in a combative GOP presidential nomination race dominated by Trump, who usually spotlights his grievances throughout his third consecutive run for the White Home.
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By late autumn, Scott was struggling to qualify for the debates and his ballot numbers had been caught within the single digits.
On Nov. 12, Scott introduced he was ending his White Home bid throughout an look on Fox Information’ “Sunday Evening in America” with Trey Gowdy.
“I believe the voters, who’re probably the most exceptional folks on the planet, have been actually clear that they’re telling me, ‘Not now, Tim,’” Scott stated.
Ffrom left: Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., stand onstage earlier than the third Republican presidential major debate on the Adrienne Arsht Middle for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County in Miami on Nov. 8, 2023. (AP Picture/Rebecca Blackwell)
Haley and Scott share an extended political historical past. They each served collectively within the state legislature and in 2012, then-Gov. Haley appointed then-Rep. Scott to the Senate to fill a emptiness.
Fox Information’ Jessica Loker contributed to this report
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