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 The Federalist Wire: ... “It’s very clear that Tim Scott is doing everything he can to build his relationship with Donald Trump in an attempt to get picked as VP,” a source who has close ties to the Trump campaign said to the New York Post. “It’s pretty clear he’s one of the people who is being considered.” Back in February, Scott spoke with the Wall Street Journal and told them that he felt like his role supporting Donald Trump was a more comfortable one than the role he had in supporting himself as a presidential candidate. Specifically, he said that he was “free from the internal struggle on how to promote myself without being braggadocious.” Scott has also been present on the campaign trail with the former president quite a bit this year. But despite that, Trump hasn’t let anyone know whether or not Scott or any other potential VP candidates have gained an edge in his eyes. Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL), Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), are also names on ...

 Daily Mail: Trump says Texas Governor Greg Abbott is 'absolutely' on his VP shortlist after border trip: Ex-president adds another name to the shortlist and praises one of the favorites Tim Scott I like both Abbott and Scott.  Both are vastly superior to Kamala Harris or Joe Biden. 

 Washington Examiner: Nikki Haley may have moved into a tie with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) in the latest Des Moines Register poll , but a quick look at who Republicans say is their second choice shows she is not the one who can beat former President Donald Trump . The top-line numbers show Trump at 43%, DeSantis and Haley at 16%, and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) at 9%. But when asked who their second choice was, just 27% of DeSantis voters said Haley compared to 41% who said Trump. Meanwhile, for Haley supporters, 34% say DeSantis is their second choice, while just 12% say Trump. In other words, if DeSantis were to drop out, it would help Trump because DeSantis voters prefer Trump to Haley. But if Haley were to drop out, it would help DeSantis since most of her voters will never vote for Trump. Additionally, when asked which candidates they were considering voting for, Trump and DeSantis were tied at 67%. Meanwhile, just 54% of Iowa Republicans said they were considering voting for Haley...

 The Hill: President Biden is trailing former President Trump, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) in several hypothetical 2024 match-ups in a new survey from Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll shared with The Hill. The poll found that 44 percent of respondents said they would vote for Trump when asked about a hypothetical match-up between him and Biden in 2024, while 40 percent said they would back the current president. A separate 15 percent said they were unsure or didn’t know. The polling is largely unchanged from a similar Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll conducted in July, which had Trump at 45 percent and Biden at 40 percent. The poll also found that 41 percent said they would back Haley, compared to 37 percent who said they would support Biden. When asked about a match between Biden and Scott, the president received 37 percent, while Scott received 39 percent. Still, both hypothetical match-ups featured larger shares of respondents saying they didn’t know or were u...

 Mary Margaret Olohan: ‘From A Deep, Dark Place’: Sen. Tim Scott Blasts ‘Callousness’ Of Telling Black Women They Need Abortions To Succeed "People see 'at risk,'" he said. "I see high potential. I know the difference because I've been one and became the other." Sen. Scott was born and raised by an impoverished black mother.  We should not be wiping out that potential in others. 

 Daily Caller: President Joe Biden’s Treasury Secretary, Janet Yellen, said Tuesday that making abortion illegal would be bad for the economy. ... “I certainly don’t mean to say what I think the effects are in a manner that’s harsh,” Yellen responded. “What we’re talking about is whether or not women will have the ability to regulate their reproductive situation in ways that will enable them to plan lives that are fulfilling and satisfying for them.” “One aspect of a satisfying life is being able to feel that you have the financial resources to raise a child, that the children you bring into the world are wanted, and that you have the ability to take care of them,” Yellen continued. “In many cases abortions are of teenage women, particularly low-income and often black, who aren’t in a position to be able to care for children, have unexpected pregnancies, and it deprives them of the ability often to continue their education, to later participate in the workforce.” “I’ll just simply ...

  Washington Examiner: Tim Scott introduces bill to curb union power and protect 'gig worker' model Unions would like to collect dues from the gig workers. 

 Washington Examiner: South Carolina Sen.  Tim Scott  on Wednesday said "America is not a racist country" during a rebuttal of President  Joe Biden 's first  congressional address . "Hear me clearly: America is not a racist country," he said. "It's backwards to fight discrimination with different types of discrimination, and it's wrong to use our painful past to honestly shut down debates in the present." Scott went on to defend Georgia's voting law, which has received sharp backlash from major corporations and high-profile liberals. Scott, alongside many conservatives, insisted the bill makes it "easier to vote and harder to cheat." "I'm an African American who has voted in the South all my life," he said. "I take voting rights personally. Republicans support making it easier to vote and harder to cheat." “And so do voters," he added. "Big majorities of Americans support early voting, and   big m...

This is a very good speech on the fundamental unfairness of the Democrats' efforts to remove the President.  Scott has been a strong supporter of the President and together they have pushed opportunity zones in poor neighborhoods, that have resulted in stronger growth for the bottom 20 percent in this country.

Tim Scott gives a brilliant answer to MSNBC anchor and to the NAACP.  He has lived his answer and pulled himself up from poverty.

Post and Courier: Sen. Tim Scott credits his single mother for his rise from poverty to the national stage If you like Sen. Scott, you will like him even more after reading this article.  One interesting fact, like the state's other senator, Linsay Graham, Scott has never married.  He and his mom are still very close.

Midland Reporter-News: Newly named to the U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Tim Scott decided he needed an up-close look at how energy was actually produced. So the Republican from South Carolina, appointed this past December to succeed Jim DeMint, came to Midland this week to tour some oil sites. His visit was the second from a senator considered a rising star in the Republican Party. He arrived the same day the newest senator from Texas, Ted Cruz, held a town hall meeting at the Permian Basin Petroleum Museum. “He called me and wanted to come to West Texas,” said Ernest Angelo, a former Midland mayor and Republican National Committeeman who accompanied Scott to a Fasken Oil and Ranch well site where a hydraulic fracturing job was being performed. “He’s on the Energy Committee and wanted the opportunity to learn something about what’s going on in the oil industry. He asked a lot of pertinent questions, and I thought it was a good idea.” There were three reasons ...

Steven Moore: Republicans in need of encouraging signs for the new year need look no further than Tim Scott. He was appointed by Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday to succeed Jim DeMint as U.S. senator from South Carolina. Mr. Scott is a charismatic and principled economic and social conservative from the Deep South. He owes his rapid political rise in part to the tea party movement. Oh, and he is black. In a few weeks, when the new Congress convenes, Mr. Scott, 47, will take his place as the first black senator from a former Confederate state since Reconstruction. This will make it exceedingly difficult for liberals to maintain their stereotype of the South as a land teeming with white racists. "If that were true," he says, "how could I have been elected to Congress in a district that is 70% white?" He adds: "I have campaigned all over the state of South Carolina. It is the friendliest state in the country. And truly here people judge you by the content of your char...

Erick Erickson: Senator Jim DeMint of South Carolina leaves the Senate on December 31st. Replacing him will be Congressman Tim Scott. Yesterday, Governor Nikki Haley made the announcement that she would choose Congressman Scott for the replacement. ... Governor Haley and Congressman Scott both were insistent that Congressman Scott is not a diversity pick. He’s a conservative pick by a conservative Governor to represent a conservative state. But it can’t help but be noticed that in 2013 the only black Senator will be a Republican from the state wherein the first shots of the Civil War were fired. I have long noted that the Tea Party, which pushed both Nikki Haley and Tim Scott as candidates, is far more diverse than the Republican establishment. Josh Kraushaar also notices this over at National Journal. The much maligned and supposed bigoted tea party backed Ted Cruz against David Dewhurst, Marco Rubio against Charlie Crist, Tim Scott against a number of challengers in his 2010 con...

NY Times: Congressman Said to Be Pick for South Carolina Senate Seat The move would make Representative Tim Scott, a Republican, the first black senator from the South since the late 19th century. I like Tim Scott.  He is a smart conservative who does not pander.  For that reason the left will denigrate him and vilify him because he is a black conservative.  The left hates blacks who are conservative and uses racial slurs and demagoguery to try to marginalize them.  They can't stand minority conservatives who make it with out them.

Washington Post: The choice of who will replace Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) for the next two years rests with one person and one person alone: Nikki Haley. And it’s much harder to handicap an appointment than an election. But when it comes to the choice before Haley, one candidate quickly stands out as making a whole lot of sense to join the upper chamber: Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.). Rep. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) speaks a June 8, 2010, primary election night gathering at The Hilton Garden Hotel in North Charleston, S.C. (Brad Nettles – AP) “The only way that she doesn’t pick Tim Scott is if she picks herself,” said South Carolina GOP strategist Wesley Donehue. “It makes all the sense in the world.” ... I like Scott.  He understands the economy and how jobs are created.  He is a strong conservative.  He is also an example of the openness of Republicans to people of any ethnic background when they embrace conservatism.  He currently represents as majority white district i...