{"id":2096949,"date":"2023-11-13T09:58:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-ends-white-house-bid\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T09:58:44","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T14:58:44","slug":"tim-scott-ends-white-house-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-ends-white-house-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott Ends White House Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">12<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftim-scott-ends-white-house-bid%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2096949&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<p>Senator<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Tim\u00a0<\/span><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Scott\u00a0<\/span>suspended his run for the 2024 Republican presidential election nomination on Sunday after months of burning through campaign cash at a blistering rate without making a significant dent in national opinion polls.\t<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they&#8217;re telling me: &#8216;Not now<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Tim<\/span>,'&#8221;<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>told Fox News in an interview on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>His exit may provide a modest boost for other candidates trying to dislodge frontrunner and former president Donald Trump from the top spot, namely former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.<\/p>\n<p>In the moments after<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>dropped out, two major donors to his campaign told Reuters they would switch their support to Haley, who like<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>hails from the state of South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>The lone black Republican in the U.S. Senate,<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>began his campaign in May, promising to present an op<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">tim<\/span>istic, forward-looking vision for America. He portrayed himself as a deeply conservative candidate who was more capable of healing political divisions in the United States than Trump and Florida governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>While<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>enjoyed a modest, but measurable bump in opinion polls in some states over the summer, he failed to establish and defend a lane for himself in a relatively crowded field.<\/p>\n<p>Like other candidates, he never articulated to Trump supporters why they should move on from the former president, who is still well liked by most primary voters.<\/p>\n<p>Among the donors that supported<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>but are now switching to Haley&#8217;s camp are metals magnate Andy Sabin and New York-based litigator Eric Levine.<\/p>\n<p>Levine said he planned to host a fundraiser for Haley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I will support Nikki Haley enthusiastically,&#8221; Levine said.<\/p>\n<p>A third<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>donor, California-based commercial real estate banker Jeff Burns, said he had yet to make up his mind, but was leaning towards Haley.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Always a long shot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>was always considered a long shot, he entered the race with some significant assets.<\/p>\n<p>Many major donors supported him, in part because they believed he would have a high chance of beating Democratic president Joe Biden if he were to emerge as the Republican nominee. They were also turned off by DeSantis&#8217;s often-confrontational attitude toward big business and opposition to U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>During the first presidential debate in August,<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott\u00a0<\/span>failed to stand out, while Haley received plaudits from voters and donors for her combative performance. Subsequent debates proved similarly lackluster for<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott<\/span>, who was soon surpassed by Haley in most state- and national-level polls.<\/p>\n<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Scott\u00a0<\/span>shifted tactics in the fall months and began adopting more confrontational rhetoric toward both Democrats and other Republican contenders. After the Oct. 7 attack by Palestinian militant group Hamas on Israel, for instance, he said that Biden had &#8220;blood on his hands&#8221; for failing to do more to prevent it, even as Israel itself was caught off-guard by the incursion.\t<\/p>\n<p>That tonal shift had no effect on his polls, and may have even muddied the narrow lane he had tried to carve out. At the same<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0tim<\/span>e,<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Scott<\/span>&#8216;s finances began to deteriorate, an ominous sign for any presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Gram Slattery in Washington and Alexandra Ulmer in San Francisco; additional reporting by Dan Whitcomb; editing by Ross Colvin, Grant McCool, and Miral Fahmy)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator\u00a0Tim\u00a0 Scott\u00a0suspended his run for the 2024 Republican presidential election nomination on Sunday after months of burning through campaign cash at a blistering rate without making a significant dent in national opinion polls. &#8220;I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they&#8217;re telling me: &#8216;Not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2181654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tim-scott-main.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2096949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/tim-scott-main.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2096949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2096949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2096949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2096949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2096949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}