{"id":261,"date":"2023-02-13T10:30:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=261"},"modified":"2023-02-13T10:31:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:31:00","slug":"report-gop-sen-tim-scott-preparing-presidential-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/report-gop-sen-tim-scott-preparing-presidential-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: GOP Sen. Tim Scott Preparing Presidential Run"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Reports today indicate South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott is preparing to run for President in 2024. If he does, he would be a formidable candidate. He is universally respected and admired, and would be a strong candidate in the early-voting primary state of South Carolina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is taking steps to run for president, people familiar with his plans said, adding to the stable of Republicans<\/a> looking to wrest the party mantle from former President Donald Trump<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, is testing a message with GOP voters in key early states focused on unity and optimism as some Republicans say it is time to move on<\/a> from the Trump era. Mr. Trump has announced a bid<\/a> for president in the 2024 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennifer DeCasper, a Scott senior adviser, said he was \u201cexcited to share his vision of hope and opportunity and hear the American people\u2019s response.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What isn\u2019t clear yet, some people close to Mr. Scott acknowledge, is whether the GOP base that enthusiastically embraced Mr. Trump is interested in that message.\u00a0. . . <\/p>\nVia Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reports today indicate South Carolina GOP Sen. Tim Scott is preparing to run for President in 2024. If he does, he would be a formidable candidate. He is universally respected and admired, and would be a strong candidate in the early-voting primary state of South Carolina. South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott is taking steps to run for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,55,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-gop-presidential-nomination","category-sen-tim-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}