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Tim Scott Makes an Upbeat Presidential Exit
14Nov By adminNo Comments
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Tim Scott Makes an Upbeat Presidential Exit

Tim Scott recognized political reality on Sunday evening by announcing the end of his presidential campaign, and he deserves credit for his timing and his contributions to the race. “When I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate,” the Senator said on Fox News. American voters “who are the most remarkable people on the planet have been really clear that they’re telling me, not now, Tim.” He said he didn’t think voters were ruling him out in the future, but they are for 2024.Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8
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Haley, DeSantis Try to Capitalize on Tim Scott Exit From GOP Primary Race
14Nov By adminNo Comments
World

Haley, DeSantis Try to Capitalize on Tim Scott Exit From GOP Primary Race

Updated Nov. 13, 2023 5:38 pm ETNikki Haley and Ron DeSantis are trying to take advantage of Tim Scott’s exit from the Republican presidential field by scooping up his supporters, endorsers and donors in a race that remains dominated by former President Donald Trump.The South Carolina senator announced his exit late Sunday following lackluster performances in three GOP primary debates and single-digit polling in Iowa, where Scott had heavily focused his campaign and nomination voting starts in just two months.An Iowa Poll released late last month showed Scott with the support of 7% of likely participants in the state’s Republican caucuses, while another 10% listed him as their second choice and one in three said they were actively considering him. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, ...
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Sen. Tim Scott Drops Out Of 2024 Presidential Race
13Nov By adminNo Comments
Politics

Sen. Tim Scott Drops Out Of 2024 Presidential Race

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) suspended his presidential campaign on Sunday, just days after he failed to gain traction during the third Republican debate.“I love America more today than I did on May 22nd, but when I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate. I am suspending my campaign,” Scott said on Fox News. “I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they’re telling me: Not now, Tim.”Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, had been a long-shot candidate in the Republican primary, with him frequently polling in the single digits while attempting to undermine former President Donald Trump’s overwhelming stronghold on the Republican Party.He formally launched his campaign in May while it was flush with $22 millio...
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George Will’s Wife Doesn’t Agree With His Latest Column
11Oct By adminNo Comments
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George Will’s Wife Doesn’t Agree With His Latest Column

In a column posted Tuesday, Will suggested that Scott could better serve the country if he dropped out of the presidential race and instead endorsed former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley:This is the South Carolina senator’s choice: He can acknowledge that his energetic campaigning has failed to enkindle sufficient enthusiasm and depart as he campaigned, cheerfully. Or he can try to become someone whom, to his credit, he has no aptitude for being — another peddler of synthetic anger, stoking today’s rage culture.Will’s column isn’t especially remarkable on its own. But it’s topped with what Mediaite describes, correctly, as an “all-time disclosure note”:Disclosure: The columnist’s wife, Mari Will, an adviser to Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott (S.C.), disagrees with this c...
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Tim Scott: ‘Not Necessarily A Bad Thing’ To Block Military Nominees
21Sep By adminNo Comments
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Tim Scott: ‘Not Necessarily A Bad Thing’ To Block Military Nominees

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) said Thursday that an ongoing GOP blockade of hundreds of President Joe Biden’s military nominees may actually be a good thing for America since Biden has been trying to bring more diversity into the nation’s military.In an interview with conservative radio show host Hugh Hewitt, Scott, who is running for president, was asked if he supports Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) in blocking more than 300 military nominations in protest of the Pentagon’s policy on providing abortion-related travel. Tuberville has been leaning on Senate procedural rules since February to derail their confirmations.Scott replied that it may actually be a good thing that Tuberville is singlehandedly preventing hundreds of U.S. military posts from being filled.“Under President Biden, holding up...
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The GOP’s Billionaire Primary Is Just Getting Started
30Jul By adminNo Comments
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The GOP’s Billionaire Primary Is Just Getting Started

The 2020 Democratic presidential primary was defined by the passions of small-dollar donors ― the mostly college-educated voters who jumped from candidate to candidate, providing Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and then-South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg with momentum and cold, hard cash to power their campaigns.But the 2024 Republican primary, which is just entering its adolescence, is set to be defined not by the passions of donors chipping in $20 in response to an email, but by millionaires and billionaires cutting checks worth tens of thousands of dollars, if not tens of millions, in response to a PowerPoint presentation and a sales pitch from a super PAC official.The billionaire and millionaire businessmen (and they are basically all men) in New Yo...
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Tim Scott Joins the Chorus of Attacks on Ron DeSantis Over Florida’s Black History Curriculum – RedState
28Jul By adminNo Comments
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Tim Scott Joins the Chorus of Attacks on Ron DeSantis Over Florida’s Black History Curriculum – RedState

2024 presidential candidate Tim Scott has joined the chorus of voices from all sides attacking Ron DeSantis over Florida’s black history curriculum. The controversy surrounds a single line written by a majority-black panel that requires the teaching of the skills formerly enslaved people learned that they then used to their “benefit” after abolition. Dr. William B. Allen, one of the members of the panel, has gone public to defend his team, stating that the intention is to tell the stories of former slaves who overcame adversity to benefit themselves and others. He used Frederick Douglass learning to read as a slave and then becoming a man who spoke to the foundation of the nation as an example. Later, it was revealed that the sentence is essentially a copy and paste from the original A...
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Who’s Running for President in 2024? Meet the Candidates
20Jul By adminNo Comments
World

Who’s Running for President in 2024? Meet the Candidates

By James BenedictUpdated July 20, 2023 3:08 pm ETWith months to go before the first primary ballots are cast, the field for the 2024 presidential election is rapidly taking shape. On the Democratic side, President Biden announced he is running but faces no serious challengers. Former President Donald Trump is mounting a third consecutive bid, and several other Republicans are running or considering a campaign. Copyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8Continue reading your article witha WSJ subscriptionSubscribe NowAlready a subscriber? Sign In
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