{"id":2097370,"date":"2023-11-13T13:47:02","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:47:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-exit-brings-gop-closer-to-a-desantis-haley-showdown\/"},"modified":"2023-11-13T13:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T18:50:05","slug":"tim-scott-exit-brings-gop-closer-to-a-desantis-haley-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-exit-brings-gop-closer-to-a-desantis-haley-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott exit brings GOP closer to a DeSantis-Haley showdown"},"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\">20<\/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-exit-brings-gop-closer-to-a-desantis-haley-showdown%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=2097370&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--><h2>The 2024 Republican Presidential \u2064Race Narrows:\u200c Trump, DeSantis, and Haley \u200bEmerge as Top Contenders<\/h2>\n<p>The exit of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) from\u2064 the 2024 \u200bRepublican presidential race leaves just four major challengers to former\u2064 President Donald Trump for the\u2063 nomination, bringing us closer to the day when it will be two.<\/p>\n<p>Trump clearly has the top tier all to himself, with a second tier of Gov. \u2062Ron DeSantis and former United Nations\u200d Ambassador\u200d Nikki Haley behind him.<\/p>\n<h3>Republicans Navigate Culture War Setback\u2062 on Abortion<\/h3>\n<p>Normally, a candidate \u200dwith Scott 2-4%\u200d in\u200b the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-exit-brings-gop-closer-to-a-desantis-haley-showdown\/\" title=\"Tim Scott exit brings GOP closer to a DeSantis-Haley showdown\">national polls suspending campaign wouldn\u2019<\/a>t have a major impact on the race. But Scott was doing better than that in Iowa and South Carolina, two key early contests.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis now occupies the\u200b lane to the right of Trump on abortion all to himself. This could help him in Iowa, where he his counting on Trump to stumble and evangelicals are an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-majority-of-u-s-voters-support-canadian-truckers-freedom-convoy-2022\/\" title=\"Poll: Majority of U.S. Voters Support Canadian Truckers Freedom Convoy 2022\">important voting bloc<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has \u200ba strong bond with many of these voters based on his first term in \u200doffice. Whatever he says about abortion now, the \u200cformer president was instrumental \u2062in overturning Roe v. Wade, appointing three of\u200c the five \u2064justices who supported its reversal in \u200dDobbs v. Jackson \u2062Women\u2019s Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>But Trump has also been reticent about federal abortion restrictions, touting Dobbs\u2019s sending the \u200cissue back to the states where he claims \u201clegal scholars\u201d on both sides believed it belonged. He has also criticized DeSantis for signing\u200d a six-week ban into law in\u200d Florida and has snubbed some\u200b high-profile social conservative gatherings in Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, and former New Jersey \u2062Gov. Chris Christie have all taken positions more or \u200bless in line with Trump\u2019s. Scott and former Vice President Mike Pence have already dropped out. That leaves DeSantis as \u2062the last candidate standing who can say \u2063he is more antiabortion than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Then there\u2063 is \u2064the\u2064 possibility that Scott\u2019s departure could help Haley in\u200b South Carolina, where she \u200dserved as governor. \u2063While \u2064Scott seems to have dropped from\u200d the 10% he was getting in his home state in a Washington Post\/Monmouth poll in September to \u200cthe 6%\u2063 he notched in a CNN survey last month, he could conceivably help Haley consolidate native son-and-daughter support and move\u200b further away from DeSantis in \u2062second place.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200dRealClearPolitics average for South Carolina has Trump at 49%, Haley next at 18.8%, DeSantis 10.5%, \u200band Scott at 7.8%. Even a couple of\u2062 points could be marginally helpful for Haley, who is also in second in\u200c New Hampshire, according to the polling averages.<\/p>\n<p>Scott also did reasonably well at \u2062fundraising, which is one of the reasons his supporters were confident they could power through lackluster polling numbers. Perhaps some of the donors could\u2062 now \u2064be available to Haley, though \u2062DeSantis will make\u2063 a play for them too.<\/p>\n<p>Both DeSantis and Haley will now get to\u200b test the theory\u200b that \u2063the winnowing of the \u200cfield will\u200b help one or both of them more directly \u200dtake the fight to Trump. Up until now, they both have had to try to be heard above a cacophony of voices around them and Trump far ahead.<\/p>\n<p>Now Ramaswamy \u200dand Christie will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pressure-mounts-on-sheldon-whitehouse-to-resign-in-shame-over-ties-to-racist-beach-club\/\" title=\"Pressure Mounts on Sheldon Whitehouse To Resign in Shame Over Ties to Racist Beach Club\">face increasing pressure<\/a> to drop out before the fourth Republican \u200cdebate. While it remains to be seen whether either of them will listen, \u2062it is increasingly shaping up to be \u2064a DeSantis versus Haley race for second\u200c place.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis will \u200ccontinue his campaign as someone who can keep the party moving in the\u200b direction Trump started it on in 2017, but will \u2062win and keep his\u2063 promises. Haley will position herself as the candidate who can appeal to suburban women, talking generational change even as aspects of her\u200b platform and style hearken back to George W. Bush.<\/p>\n<p>Both candidates\u2064 have the \u2064advantage of being significantly younger than \u200bTrump in a contest that may be defined by President Joe \u200bBiden\u2019s age.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the\u2064 risk for both of them is that they may never\u2062 be able to get\u2064 past each other.\u2064 Here\u2019s how the DeSantis campaign greeted Haley\u2019s latest Iowa overtures, which they described as \u201clighting millions of dollars on fire\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cNo amount of money will be enough for \u2063Nikki \u200cHaley to conceal her pro-China, pro-Gaza aid, pro-gas tax, and pro-Hillary record,\u201d DeSantis campaign communications director Andrew Romeo said in a statement. \u201cAs Americans look behind the curtain, they will see she does not have \u2064the extensive\u200d record of \u2063conservative achievements that Ron\u200b DeSantis boasts.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps \u2064Tim Scott got out\u200c before the race got ugly.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll soon see if this Trump-dominated affair \u2062can get interesting.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> How may\u200d Haley benefit from Scott&#8217;s\u200d departure in terms of consolidating\u2063 support in her home state of South Carolina?<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ident \u2062in his\u2064 staying \u200bpower. \u200cHis departure now leaves \u200b\u200bDeSantis and Haley \u2063as the strongest contenders to challenge Trump&#8217;s\u2063 dominance in the race.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump undoubtedly holds the top \u2063tier all to himself, both DeSantis and Haley have carved out their own positions within the Republican \u200bparty. DeSantis, the \u2064current Governor \u200cof\u2062 Florida, has positioned\u200d himself as more conservative than Trump on the issue of abortion. \u2063With\u2063 Scott&#8217;s exit, DeSantis now has the lane to\u2062 the right of Trump \u200con this particular issue. This could give him an advantage in Iowa, where evangelicals \u2064play a crucial role in \u200bthe voting \u2064process and DeSantis hopes \u2064for a stumble from Trump. Trump, however, maintains a strong\u2064 bond with these voters due to his previous term in office and his role in overturning Roe v. Wade. While he has\u200c been reticent about federal\u200d abortion restrictions, DeSantis \u200dhas signed a\u200d six-week ban into law in Florida, positioning himself as more \u200bantiabortion than \u2063Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Haley, the former United Nations Ambassador and \u2062Governor of South Carolina, may benefit from \u2063Scott&#8217;s departure by \u200cconsolidating support in\u200b her home state. While Scott&#8217;s polling numbers have decreased in South Carolina, dropping from 10% to 6%, Haley could potentially gain \u200dnative son-and-daughter support and distance herself further \u200dfrom DeSantis in second\u200b place. The current \u2063polling averages \u200din South\u200c Carolina show Trump with a substantial \u200clead at 49%, \u2063Haley at 18.8%, DeSantis \u200cat 10.5%, and Scott at 7.8%. Even a small shift\u2062 in support \u2064could be marginally helpful for Haley, who \u200cis also placing second in the polling averages\u200c in New Hampshire.<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s fundraising prowess was one of the \u200dfactors that led \u2062to confidence \u200din his ability to stay in the race. However, with his \u2063departure, DeSantis and Haley now have the\u2062 opportunity to build momentum in terms\u200c of fundraising and solidify their \u2063positions\u2064 as top contenders.<\/p>\n<p>As\u2063 the\u2063 2024 Republican presidential race continues\u2064 to unfold, it is clear that \u2062Trump, \u200bDeSantis, and\u2064 Haley have emerged as the leading contenders. With Scott&#8217;s exit, the field is narrowing,\u2063 bringing us \u2062closer to a point where\u2064 it will be\u2062 a head-to-head battle between two candidates. Time will tell who\u2064 will secure \u200bthe\u200b Republican nomination and ultimately face off against the Democratic\u2064 nominee in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The exit of Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) from the 2024 Republican presidential race leaves just four major challengers to former President Donald Trump for the nomination, bringing us closer to the day when it will be two. Trump clearly has the top tier all to himself, with a second tier of Gov. 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