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    If he runs, he wins.




    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) declared her support for President Biden to run for reelection but avoided officially backing Vice President Harris to stay on the ticket, saying she wants to defer to Biden’s team to decide.

    Warren said in an interview on Friday with the Boston-based NPR affiliate WGBH that Biden should run again because he has “gotten a tremendous amount done” despite Democrats having the “skinniest possible” majority in the Senate and a narrow majority in the House. Republicans took control of the House in November’s midterm elections.

    She noted the Inflation Reduction Act, a $740 billion climate, health care and tax package, and the CHIPS and Science Act, which invested billions of dollars into domestic semiconductor manufacturing, as some of his accomplishments.

    But Warren said she wants to “defer” to what makes Biden “comfortable” with choosing his running mate. She said she has known Harris for many years and likes her, having worked with her on housing.

    “But they need, they have to be a team. And my sense is they are. I don’t mean that by suggesting I think there are any problems. I think they are,” she said.

    Biden has not formally announced whether he will run for reelection in 2024 but has repeatedly indicated that he intends to. He is expected to announce he is running for a second term as soon as next month.

    Biden has also said Harris would be his running mate if he decides to run again.

    Throughout U.S. history, incumbent presidents have occasionally chosen a different running mate for their second bid, but that decision is rare.
    Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

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    Quote Originally Posted by S Landreth View Post
    Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) declared her support for President Biden to run for reelection but avoided officially backing Vice President Harris to stay on the ticket, saying she wants to defer to Biden’s team to decide.
    Wink Wink .

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    .....and they still don't get, if they ever will.

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    Quote Originally Posted by HuangLao View Post
    .....and they still don't get, if they ever will.
    Don't worry Jeff, most people don't get your weird shit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Buckaroo Banzai View Post
    Wink Wink .
    it'll never happen

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    Nikki Haley expected to announce 2024 bid on Feb. 15

    Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will announce her candidacy for president next month, according to multiple reports.

    Multiple outlets reported on Tuesday that Haley, who is also a former Republican governor of South Carolina, will declare she is running on Feb. 15, which could make her the first official challenger to former President Trump for the GOP nomination.

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    Trump seems oddly relaxed about Republican rival Nikki Haley. Is it because she doesn’t stand a chance?

    The acolyte in question is Nikki Haley, a former South Carolina governor and Trump’s US ambassador to the UN. There are mounting rumours that Haley is exploring a potential run against Trump in 2024 – a fact that doesn’t seem to bother her old boss very much. Speaking to reporters on his plane on Saturday, Trump said Haley had called him up to chat about running and he’d told her: “Go by your heart if you want to run.” To be fair, he couldn’t resist a little dig, noting Haley had “publicly said that ‘I would never run against my president – he was a great president.’” Still, he magnanimously told her she “should do it”.

    Trump wasn’t quite as high-minded about another of his former disciples who also has his eye on the White House. During the same press session, Trump attacked the Florida governor, Ron DeSantis, accusing him of trying to “rewrite” history as regards his Covid response. “When I hear that he might [run], I think it’s very disloyal,” Trump said, according to Politico, adding: “He won’t be leading. I got him elected. I’m the one that chose him.”

    Why is Trump bothered about DeSantis and blase about Haley? It’s not sedatives or soul-swapping demons at play, I reckon – it’s misogyny. My guess is that Trump thinks Haley has zero chance of the top job so he’s happy to humour the little lady. DeSantis, meanwhile, is far more of a threat.

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    A maybe




    Former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) on Wednesday said he is giving “very serious consideration” to running for president in 2024 and added that he does not expect former President Trump to become the Republican nominee.

    Hogan said in an interview on Fox News Channel’s “Your World with Neil Cavuto” that he was willing to “stand up” and say when he disagreed with actions Trump took as president. He said he agrees with many of Trump’s policies but does not believe the former president would be the GOP’s strongest nominee to win the general election in 2024.

    Hogan said the Republican Party needs a candidate who can appeal to a “broader audience of people” and win swing voters after the party suffered defeats in the 2018 midterms, the 2020 presidential race and the 2022 midterms.

    Many in the Republican Party blamed Trump for the party’s performance in the November 2022 midterms, in which many of the candidates he endorsed during the primaries went on to lose in key races for the House and Senate and in gubernatorial contests.

    “We have been really successful 30 miles outside of Washington, where everything appears to be broken and nothing but divisiveness and dysfunction,” Hogan said, referring to his time as the two-term governor of a solidly Democratic state.

    Hogan has previously said he might jump into the race for the Republican nomination.

    He said Trump still has a “solid group” of people who support him, but an increasing number are no longer backing him.

    Recent polling has shown Trump with large leads over other possible Republican challengers in a hypothetical primary match-up, but he has not received a clear majority of respondents’ support.

    _________

    extra




    She’s a two-term governor from South Carolina

    Haley often spotlights her background as a child of Indian immigrants

    She served as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. under Trump

    She also had a falling out with the former president

    In the wake of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, where a mob of pro-Trump supporters ransacked the Capitol to try to stop Congress from certifying the 2020 presidential election results, Haley criticized the former president for his words that day and during other watershed moments while in office.

    Polling has her in the single digits — for now

    little more extra

    Haley has said her start in politics was inspired at an event that included Hillary Clinton.


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    Just for fun.


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    I think God has other plans for him

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    Steve Laffey's Fixing America - Offering REAL Solutions to America's Problems




    Former Cranston Mayor Steve Laffey is jumping back into the political ring as a Republican candidate for president of the United States.

    Laffey, who moved to Fort Collins, Colorado more than a decade ago after an ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate back home in Rhode Island, formally announced his presidential candidacy via video on Thursday morning..

    His immediate goal: to make it to the New Hampshire GOP debate stage to make sure the other candidates talk about the Social Security crisis that, in his mind, is no longer looming but here. "The stealing from the next generation by the people who are considered the quote-unquote 'Greatest Generation' has to stop."

    "Issues like that won't be in the debate unless you watch me there ... [and] I do what I do," he told The Journal. For example, "I will turn to whoever [asks] me something about abortion. I'll say 'I'm pro-life' but let me tell you ... Social Security."

    He has a plan.

    "And you know what − as I said in Cranston, though I won't say it this way − Nobody's going to like what I am going to do, but ... you know what? I'm 61. I can do what I want and I want to fix the country."

    "I'm heading to New Hampshire and I am going to do the same stuff you watched me do in Rhode Island all day long, all night long.

    "And I'm going to stay in New Hampshire," he said. "I'm not staying there for an hour. I may be there for three months and I am going to meet every single person, and I am going to speak to every single group. And you know, I like to think I'm fairly interesting and people will gravitate to me because I always have solutions."

    And so begins the next new chapter for the former two-term mayor who bills himself as an "American office holder, author, filmmaker, and proven financial expert" who can go toe-to-toe with former President Trump in a growing GOP field that by late Wednesday night included former South Carolina Governor and U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley.

    In the statement he released to the media on Thursday morning, Laffey said: "This next period in the United States calls for a financial expert. We do not need another lofty businessman, nor another career politician. We need someone to guide this country in the right direction.

    "I believe that I am the only person running who has the financial background, the backbone, and the track record that proves that I will do exactly what I say."

    "Steve took over a city with the lowest bond rating in the United States. He initiated the most rapid fiscal turnaround in American history. The bond rating went up 8 notches in four years in office. A bankrupt pension system was fixed, with assets rising 500%," according to his only campaign aide so far, Mike Fahey.

    There was no immediate response from Rhode Island Republicans to Laffey's entry into the GOP presidential sweepstakes, though Rhode Island's National Republican Committeeman Steven Frias, when asked Thursday for comment sent along his description of Laffey in his book: "Cranston and Its Mayors: A History."

    "Although Laffey never held statewide office, he made a statewide impact," Frias wrote.

    "To his supporters he was the “savior of Cranston” who was “brilliant, decisive and a courageous friend of the taxpayer”, but to his detractors he had a “massive ego” with a “lust for the limelight” and was “power-mad” with a “messianic complex”. His message was polarizing, but even more so was his personality.

    "Eventually, his personality faults overshadowed the merits of his policies. Laffey seemed to combine within himself great talents and great flaws. His talents got him as far he did, and his flaws kept him from going further," Frias wrote.

    When asked about Laffey's political move, Lee Ann Sennick, the state's National Republican Committeewoman, said simply: "I wish him well and will leave it to the primary voters to decide."

    The last Rhode Islander to run for U.S. president was Laffey's opponent in the 2006 GOP primary race for the U.S. Senate: then-U.S. Senator and future Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee. His platform: adopt the metric system. It did not go well.

    The darling of the conservative movement in R.I. during his stretch as mayor, Laffey considered a run for governor in 2010. His explanation then for why he withdrew and moved to Colorado: Rhode Island wasn't ready for the kind of fundamental changes he espoused, he told The Journal.

    “To be brutally honest, it’s kind of hard to watch the state continue to crumble if you’re not going to be the leader,” Laffey said.

    In the early 2000s, Laffey told reporters his belief that it was God's wish that he leave high-powered investment banking behind, return to Cranston, and run for mayor.

    He shook hands and campaigned and won the office of mayor in 2002 and again in 2004. "I ask God, 'Send me in the right direction,' " he told a Journal columnist.

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    Oh dear, Baldy's going to throw a fucking hissy fit.

    The deep-pocketed network associated with billionaire Charles Koch is preparing to throw its money and weight behind a single Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential primary – in a move that could significantly reshape the GOP field.

    Americans for Prosperity Action, the main political arm of the Koch network, “is prepared to support a candidate in the Republican presidential primary who can lead our country forward, and who can win,” Emily Seidel, the CEO of Americans for Prosperity and a top adviser at AFP Action, wrote in a memo released Sunday.

    The memo does not mention Donald Trump, but an official with AFP Action confirmed to CNN that the network is not planning to support the former president’s White House bid.

    “To write a new chapter for our county, we need to turn the page on the past,” Seidel wrote to AFP’s staff and activists. “So the best thing for the country would be to have a president in 2025 who represents a new chapter.”

    The Koch decision to engage in the GOP primary – after sitting on the sidelines for the two most recent White House nomination fights – is likely to set off a scramble among Republican presidential contenders to win over the Kansas-based industrialist and the hundreds of wealthy donors who help finance his influential, free-market network.

    Koch network plans to back a Republican -- other than Donald Trump -- in the 2024 presidential primary | CNN Politics

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    Sununu also said Sunday that he doesn't think former President Trump would beat President Biden in a head-to-head matchup in 2024.

    Another maybe

    • Gov. Sununu "definitely thinking about" 2024 presidential bid


    Gov. Chris Sununu (R-N.H.) said Sunday that he is "definitely thinking about" running for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.

    Why it matters: A number of Republicans have already signaled their interest in jumping into the 2024 presidential contest, including Nikki Haley, who is expected to formally announce her bid this month.

    Driving the news: "At the end of the day, you're going to have a lot of Republicans that get in that race, they're all really good people, they're really good candidates," Sununu said, mentioning Haley and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R).


    • "You've got to have that discussion about where we're going to go, both as a party and make sure we're going there as a country," he said on ABC News' "This Week."


    The big picture: Haley is expected to announce her 2024 presidential campaign on Feb. 15 in Charleston, South Carolina.


    • DeSantis is unlikely to make a final decision about a potential bid for president until at least May, after Florida's legislative session ends, Axios' Josh Kraushaar reports.


    Zoom out: Sununu won his fourth term as New Hampshire governor during the 2022 midterm elections.


    • He faced pressure from Republicans to run for the Senate, but he said that his responsibility "is not to the gridlock and politics of Washington. It's to the citizens of New Hampshire.


    Between the lines: Sununu also said Sunday that he doesn't think former President Trump would beat President Biden in a head-to-head matchup in 2024.


    • “Unfortunately, at the end of the day, November of '22 showed us that, right? Trump is going to be seen as a very extreme candidate. The country is going to push back against it,” he said.

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    Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda View Post
    Charles Koch
    Didn't one of then fuckers already die of old age and venom? Time fr the other fossil to cark it and hope the family doesn't get as involved in politics

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Didn't one of then fuckers already die of old age and venom? Time fr the other fossil to cark it and hope the family doesn't get as involved in politics
    If it wasn't them, it would just be some other rich fucker.

    Most of the tax breaks the Republicans dish out go to them.

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    4 more years, 4 more years




    DNC passes new primary calendar making South Carolina first and booting Iowa

    The Democratic National Committee (DNC) officially passed their new early primary calendar on Saturday, which drastically shakes up the order of states to first cast votes in the presidential nomination process.

    The plan, which was supported by President Joe Biden, makes South Carolina the first state on the presidential primary calendar on Feb. 3, 2024, followed by New Hampshire and Nevada three days later. The proposal would also move battleground states Georgia and Michigan up in the calendar.

    Iowa, whose caucus has kicked off the process for Democrats since 1972, is now out of the early window according to the DNC.

    Supporters of the calendar say the changes do a better job of representing minority voters that are the main bloc of voters for the party.

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    Majority of Democrats don’t want Biden to run again – poll

    Only 37% of his party colleagues want the 80-year-old president to seek re-election, a new poll has found


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    A clear majority of Democrats are not enthusiastic about US President Joe Biden’s plans to seek re-election in 2024, according to a new poll released on Monday.
    The survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research found that only 37% of Democrats say they want Biden to run for a second term – 15% lower than the figure recorded before the midterm election in November.

    Overall, only 22% of adult respondents believe that the 80-year-old Biden should run for another four-year term. This is down from 29% prior to the midterms.

    The poll notes that the dwindling numbers of Democrats approving of Biden’s potential re-election bid seem to be based on the sentiment prevalent among younger voters.

    The lack of enthusiasm for Biden appears most pronounced among younger Americans. Among those aged 45 or over, 49% said the president should run again. Only 23% of respondents under 45 felt the same, however.

    According to AP, in follow-up interviews, some respondents suggested that Biden’s age would hamper his ability to perform his duties, noting his cough, gait, and recurring public gaffes.

    The latest gaffe came during a White House event on Thursday, in which Biden bragged about the gender composition of his cabinet, saying: “more than half the women in my administration are women.”

    In January, Biden attempted to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to the daughter-in-law of civil rights icon Martin Luther King, Jr, but failed to recall her name. At a public event in September, he inquired as to the whereabouts of Representative Jackie Walorski (R-Indiana), who had died in a car accident a month earlier.

    Biden has on numerous occasions signaled that he plans to seek re-election, but has stopped short of officially launching his campaign, saying the final decision will hinge on his health and discussions with his family.

    Former US President Donald Trump, Biden’s main opponent in the 2020 election, formally announced his intention to run again in mid-November.

    Majority of Democrats don’t want Biden to run again – poll — RT World News


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    Quote Originally Posted by sabang View Post
    Only 37% of his party colleagues want the 80-year-old president to seek re-election, a new poll has found
    Can't really blame them.

    The only problem is if you get someone who's really fucking woke they will make baldy look electable.

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    For myself I dont put much credence in RT the mouthpiece of the Kremlin.

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    Especially regarding opposition to their useful idiot Trump.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    For myself I dont put much credence in RT the mouthpiece of the Kremlin.
    I wouldn't either. That's why I went to the source.

    WASHINGTON (AP) — A majority of Democrats now think one term is plenty for President Joe Biden, despite his insistence that he plans to seek reelection in 2024.
    That’s according to a new poll from The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research that shows just 37% of Democrats say they want him to seek a second term, down from 52% in the weeks before last year’s midterm elections.


    <snip>

    It gets worse.


    The poll also shows only 23% of U.S. adults say they have “a great deal” of confidence in Biden to effectively manage the White House. That has ticked down from 28% a year ago and remains significantly lower than 44% two years ago, just as Biden took office.
    Just 21% have a lot of confidence in Biden’s ability to handle a crisis, down slightly from 26% last March.




    Biden 2024? Most Democrats say no thank you: AP-NORC poll | AP News

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    Biden's new chief of staff to set a course for '24

    In Jeff Zients’ White House, meetings will start (and end) on time, decks and slides will replace memos, and subordinates will be empowered to make decisions.

    Why it matters: As Chief of Staff Ron Klain’s successor, Zients will bring a decidedly different management style to the position, with ripple effects across an administration pointing toward the 2024 election, current and former officials say.


    • Klain, who started working for Biden in the late 1980s, brought years of D.C. experience — and strong views — to his dream job.
    • Zients, who led Biden's pandemic response, isn't as opinionated and will delegate much more. That will give the core members of Biden’s team, most notably senior adviser Anita Dunn, greater influence on daily tactics and long-term strategy.
    • Zients also will rely more on counselor Steve Ricchetti, senior adviser Mike Donilon, deputy chiefs of staff Jen O'Malley Dillon and Bruce Reed, and Louisa Terrell, the head of legislative affairs.


    Driving the news: At a ceremony Wednesday, Biden praised Klain's grit, intellect and integrity.


    • “He is willing to jump in front of a bus for you,” Biden said.
    • Zients will focus more on implementing existing laws than working with Congress to write new ones, Biden suggested.
    • The White House will spend much of the next two years focused on ensuring that the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package and the $740 billion tax, climate and health care law passed during Biden's administration are implemented "efficiently and effectively and fairly,” the president said.
    • Klain's last official day is Feb. 8. He leaves on a high note, having helped pass three consequential pieces of legislation, retain the Senate for Democrats and minimize the party's losses in the House in November's election.


    Between the lines: Zients manages like Mike Krzyzewski coached at Zients' beloved Duke University. He scouts talent, assembles elite teams, then demands results.


    • "Governing is never easy," Zients said at the White House. "But when you have the right team, you can accomplish anything. It all comes down to people."


    What we’re watching: Zients doesn’t think every issue requires its own meeting. Sometimes, a short phone conversation is more efficient. He has been known to schedule two-minute calls.

    What we’re hearing: Zients manages up, as well as down. Obama still speaks fondly of him. And he obviously has Biden’s confidence.


    • Zients is unlikely to linger on Twitter like Klain, who was quick to amplify a piece of data — such as declining gas prices — to make political points.


    The big picture: The changing of the guard is happening at a pivotal moment in Biden’s presidency. He’s facing GOP-led congressional investigations on everything from his handling of classified documents to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan and actions by his son, Hunter.


    • The president's personal attorneys are cooperating with the Justice Department on how he handled classified information, and a special counsel is investigating.
    • Meanwhile, Biden is preparing to announce his plans to run for re-election, appearing to set a Rose Garden strategy that would amplify the power of the presidency.

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    “There's so much more to do”

    If he runs, he wins.

    Nancy Pelosi said, “Joe Biden is a person of vision, knowledge, judgment, strategic thinking to get the job done. It was a remarkable two years, a remarkable two years. And again, he connects very empathetically with the we are good people.

    So, I hope he runs. I’m for him if he runs. And I know that the Democrats will fully embrace him.



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    The polls don't show that. A recent Poll of Democratic Voters asked, "Should Biden Run for re-election"?

    YES 37%
    NO 62%

    Houston, we have a problem.
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    Sununu creates national political committee amid 2024 speculation

    New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu, one of the leading moderate Republican voices, took another step toward running for president in 2024, establishing a national fundraising organization to probe donor support for a possible White House bid.

    Sununu confirmed on Thursday that he had created a 501(c)(4) organization called “Live Free or Die,” a nod to his state’s motto, as he ponders a possible 2024 campaign.

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    Nikki Haley to seek Republican nomination for 2024 presidential election

    The former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley is challenging her one-time boss for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

    “I’m Nikki Haley, and I’m running for president,” Donald Trump’s former United Nations ambassador said in a video released on Tuesday.







    Bolton says Haley is ‘really running for vice president’

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    One republican welcome mat for Haley

    Ann Coulter tells Nikki Haley to ‘go back to your own country’ in racist rant against new GOP presidential candidate

    Conservative pundit Ann Coulter is under fire for a racist tirade against new Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.

    In an appearance on the "The Mark Simone Show" podcast this week, Coulter made several xenophobic comments about Haley, the former governor of South Carolina who was born in the U.S. to Indian immigrant parents. "Why don't you go back to your own country?" Coulter said.

    Coulter, known for her racist and anti-immigrant stances, attacked India, as well.

    "Her candidacy did remind me that I need to immigrate to India so I can demand they start taking down parts of their history," she said. "What's with the worshipping of the cows? They're all starving over there. Did you know they have a rat temple, where they worship rats?"

    Haley did not respond to a request for comment.

    Coulter also called Haley a "bimbo" and a "preposterous creature," criticizing her for having advocated removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse in the wake of the 2015 shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

    "This is my country, lady," she said. "I'm not an American Indian, and I don't like them taking down all the monuments."

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    Scoop: Tim Scott raises presidential buzz with super PAC hires

    South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) has hired former Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner and longtime Republican operative Rob Collins to co-chair a super PAC (Opportunity Matters Fund Action) supporting the senator's political efforts.

    Why it matters: Scott's decision to tap two politically-savvy Republicans — a former senator who chaired the National Republican Senatorial Committee and a former executive director of the NRSC — is a sign that he's moving closer to launching a 2024 presidential campaign.


    • If Scott announced a presidential bid, the super PAC would be the center of his political operation. The PAC has banked over $17 million, according to a source familiar with its finances. Scott gave over $21 million to Republican candidates in the last election cycle.
    • Scott, the only Black Republican senator, is traveling to South Carolina next Thursday to hold a listening tour and commemorate Black History Month — the day after former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is set to launch her own presidential campaign in her home state.
    • Scott is also planning to visit Iowa the following week to discuss the importance of faith in America.


    Between the lines: Scott ramping up his operation is a significant obstacle to Haley, who appointed Scott to a then-vacant Senate seat in 2012.


    • Both Haley and Scott played a pivotal role as surrogates for Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign, at a time when the pair were Republican rising stars looking to broaden the GOP's appeal.


    What they're saying: “I know firsthand what an inspirational leader and hardworking legislator Tim Scott is. He is an American optimist at a time our nation desperately needs one. That’s why I’m proud to help him in any way I can," Gardner said in a statement to Axios.

    The bottom line: If Scott jumps in the race, the traditional wing of the Republican party would face a similar conundrum to 2016 — the risk that two home-state allies offering a forward-looking vision for the GOP end up dividing support between each other while boosting the primary prospects of former President Trump.



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