Tim Scott responds to Nikki Haley campaign, says ‘there’s room for two’ 2024 candidates from South Carolina Geopolitics News

Nikki Haley’s presidential race doesn’t seem to be stopping fellow South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott from considering his own campaign for the GOP nomination in 2024.

“I bet there’s room for three or four. Sure, there’s room for two,” Scott said in a radio interview Thursday morning when host Joey Hudson on WGTK-FM commented. asked if there was room for Haley and Scott in a 2024 GOP presidential field.

Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate and a rising star in the GOP, spoke the morning after Haley — a former two-term governor of Palmetto State who served as ambassador to the United Nations under the administration of the former President Donald Trump – officially launched it. presidential campaign.

“I have a special message for my fellow Republicans. We have lost the popular vote in seven of the last eight presidential elections. Our cause is just. But we have failed to win the trust of a majority of Americans. . Well, it ends today,” Haley said Wednesday in front of a packed crowd in Charleston, South Carolina.

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“Wishing Nikki good luck,” Scott added Thursday. “She is an intelligent and constructive individual. She carries our state and our nation well, and I have only good thoughts for her health and success as she strives to deliver her message to the American people.”

Scott will be in Charleston on Thursday to deliver a Black History Month speech as he embarks on a listening tour, which was first reported by TOU earlier this month. Next week, he’ll travel to Iowa — the state whose caucuses kick off the GOP presidential nomination calendar — to deliver a Faith in America speech and headline fundraiser in West Des Moines. for the Polk County GOP.

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“I believe that as I continue my listening tour, I will learn a lot about America. I will learn a lot about why more people like me, black people, white people, Hispanics, Asians , are all about the future of this nation, not color,” Scott said in his radio interview.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott meets with voters in Summerville, South Carolina in November 2021. The Republican senator is running for re-election this year. (Tim Scott re-election campaign)

In another sign that will generate more buzz about an increasingly likely run for the White House, Scott will run digital ads in Iowa ahead of his visit, paid for by his 2022 Senate re-election campaign.

Haley and Scott will be in Iowa at the same time. Haley is campaigning Thursday through Saturday in New Hampshire — which votes second in the GOP nominations calendar — before heading to Hawkeye State next week.

Haley and Scott served together at the South Carolina State House. Haley won the governorship in 2010, the same year Scott was elected to Congress. And three years later, Haley nominated Scott to fill a vacant Senate seat.

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Haley and Scott have moved in many of the same political circles and have shared many of the same advisers and donors and count many of the same people as allies, which would complicate matters if the senator faces the governor in the 2024 Republican nomination. struggle.

Scott was easily re-elected in November for what he said would be his final six-year term in the Senate. And Scott, a fierce fundraiser, had more than $20 million in his campaign coffers earlier this year that could be transferred to a presidential campaign.

Senator Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) annual leadership meeting in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., Saturday, November 19, 2022. (Ronda Churchill/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

While Scott had repeatedly objected when asked about 2024, in November he hinted at a possible future race during his re-election victory celebration when recounting how he took his grandfather at the polls in 2012, and that his grandfather proudly voted for him. as well as Democrat Barack Obama, the nation’s first black president.

“I wish he had lived long enough to see maybe another colored man elected president of the United States,” Scott said, before adding “but this time let it be a Republican.”

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Scott made several stops in Iowa and New Hampshire last year to help raise funds and campaign for Republicans running in the 2022 midterm elections. Scott’s home state and Haley, South Carolina, is voting third in the Republican primary schedule.

From the beginning of the constitution of a political team to the reinforcement of the already existing aligned political groups, Scott makes the steps that one would do before launching a presidential election. But a source Worldwide Scott told TOU the senator will “take the spring to hear what people are saying” before making a final decision.