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From the marketing campaign path in South Carolina to the Conservative Political Motion Convention, among the main potential contenders to function Donald Trump’s 2024 operating mate are turning up the amount of their reward of the previous president.
“Let South Carolina ship a message to all America. The Republican major is over and Donald Trump is our nominee,” Sen. Tim Scott confused as he stood subsequent to Trump at a rally in Rock Hill, South Carolina, on the eve of his house state’s GOP presidential major.
Scott, the uplifting conservative champion who ended his personal White Home run in November and endorsed Trump final month, joined the previous president on the marketing campaign path in South Carolina repeatedly this month, together with on Saturday evening at Trump’s major evening celebration.
“Is South Carolina Trump nation?” Scott requested the group to loud cheers, on the occasion in Columbia.
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Former President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Tim Scott speaks at a major election evening social gathering on the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photograph/Andrew Harnik)
Scott, the one Black Republican within the Senate, is one in all over a half dozen potential contenders with aspirations of becoming a member of Trump on the nationwide ticket who’s been speaking up the previous president.
Amongst them is one other former rival from the 2024 Republican presidential nomination race – Vivek Ramaswamy.
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The multi-millionaire biotech entrepreneur, creator and political commentator, talking Saturday at CPAC, urged any aligned group “that supported me throughout that marketing campaign, I am publicly calling on them to make use of their assets to help Donald J. Trump in his re-election effort. And I would like each different Republican candidate who ran for president to do the identical factor.”
Ramaswamy additionally made a handful of stops in South Carolina, to marketing campaign each with and on behalf of Trump, in latest weeks.
Rep. Byron Donald of Florida, a longtime Trump supporter, joined the previous president on Friday on the Black Conservative Basis Gala in Columbia, South Carolina.
“Now we have a real alternative which does not come alongside fairly often in politics to elect actual management again to the White Home. And that management is within the type of the forty fifth president, quickly to be the forty seventh president. Donald J. Trump,” Donalds instructed the group.
A day earlier, Donalds espoused an identical message at CPAC, the granddaddy of conservative confabs that has was a Trump-fest for the reason that former president first received the White Home in 2016.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem, one other longtime Trump supporter and surrogate, in an obvious dig at former 2024 contenders Scott and Ramaswamy, emphasised to cheers at CPAC on Friday, “I’ve all the time supported the truth that our subsequent president must be President Trump.”
“I used to be one of many first folks to endorse Donald Trump to be president,” Noem added. “Final yr, when everybody was asking me if I used to be going to think about operating, I mentioned no. Why would you run for president when you’ll be able to’t win?”
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem speaks throughout CPAC 2024, on the Nationwide Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Maryland, Friday, Feb. 23, 2024. (AP Photograph/Alex Brandon)
Rep. Elise Stefanik of New York, the fourth-ranking Home Republican and one other prime Trump loyalist, instructed the group at CPAC, “I am proud to be the primary member of Congress to endorse President Trump for re-election.”
And former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate who later turned unbiased and who has change into a favourite amongst conservatives, additionally praised Trump at CPAC.
“I’ve met a whole lot of robust, robust folks in my life, I am unable to consider a single one who couldn’t solely stand up to all that’s coming at Donald Trump with out crumbling, however somebody who would really select to maintain preventing in opposition to your entire Washington institution,” she highlighted.
Noem and Ramaswamy topped the CPAC Trump operating mate straw ballot this weekend – tied at 15%.
Trump on Saturday took one other massive step towards locking up the GOP nomination by defeating his final remaining main rival – former U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley – by 20 factors in her house state presidential major.
At a Fox Information city corridor in South Carolina final week, he indicated that at the very least a half dozen contenders – together with three former rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination – are on his brief checklist for operating mate.
Throughout this system, which ran on Fox Information’ “The Ingraham Angle,” Trump was requested about Scott, Ramaswamy, Noem, Donalds, Gabbard and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.
“Are all of them in your brief checklist?” host Laura Ingraham requested the previous president.
“They’re,” Trump answered. “Truthfully, all of these individuals are good. They’re all good, they’re all strong.”
Scott acquired a heat welcome from the big crowd of principally Trump supporters when he arrived on the Greenville, South Carolina, conference heart, the place the city corridor was held.
“Lots of people are speaking about that gentleman proper over there,” Trump mentioned as he pointed to Scott, who was sitting within the entrance row of the viewers.
Requested about Trump’s reward, Scott instructed Fox Information Digital on Thursday that the previous president “actually was very beneficiant and type together with his phrases. However extra essential than who his operating mate is is ensuring that he’s our subsequent president.”
Requested about probably serving as Trump’s operating mate, Ramaswamy additionally demurred.
“Donald Trump has bought to win this election. That is my sole focus and ensuring he wins by a decisive victory,” he instructed reporters final week throughout a cease in South Carolina. “And I will do no matter I can to ensure that his presidency is as profitable because it probably will be.”
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Whereas the potential operating mate contenders are taking part in coy, seasoned Republican strategist David Kochel instructed Fox Information the appearances on the marketing campaign path “after all, are display screen checks. I believe CPAC goes to play that function as nicely this weekend – clearly massive with the MAGA of us.”
“Trump likes to speak about people who he hires popping out of central casting, so to make use of the phrase audition is apropos,” added Kochel, a veteran of quite a few GOP presidential campaigns.
Alex Castellanos, one other longtime Republican advisor who labored on a number of White Home campaigns, agreed that “after all these guys are auditioning.”
“In a manner they must. They already failed the style take a look at for occupying a place within the White Home,” Castellanos mentioned as he pointed to Scott and Ramaswamy’s failed presidential campaigns.
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