{"id":2261057,"date":"2024-06-06T06:07:02","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-positions-himself-as-best-trump-vp-hopeful-to-court-black-voters\/"},"modified":"2024-06-06T06:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T10:11:17","slug":"tim-scott-positions-himself-as-best-trump-vp-hopeful-to-court-black-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-positions-himself-as-best-trump-vp-hopeful-to-court-black-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott emerges as top Trump VP pick to attract black voters"},"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\">24<\/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-positions-himself-as-best-trump-vp-hopeful-to-court-black-voters%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=2261057&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--><p>Senator Tim \u2063Scott from South Carolina is spearheading a significant campaign\u200d to rally black voters for Donald Trump, aiming to\u200b hinder Joe Biden&#8217;s victory in \u2062key\u200b states. Positioned as Trump&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fla-gov-ron-desantis-becoming-major-voice-for-gop\/\" title=\"Fla. Gov. Ron DeSantis becoming major voice for GOP\">potential vice presidential pick<\/a>, Scott&#8217;s \u200doutreach emphasizes his \u200dstrong rapport\u2064 with black voters. \u200dWith a substantial budget, Scott plans to sway nonwhite voters towards Trump, highlighting the critical battleground state dynamics.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tim-scott\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tim Scott<\/a> (R-SC) is preparing to help turn out black voters for former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Donald Trump<\/a> with a new multimillion-dollar campaign blitz that aims to deny President Joe Biden a win in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/huge-sidney-powell-witness-whom-ny-times-described-as-always-the-smartest-person-in-the-room-concludes-hundreds-of-thousands-of-votes-transferred-from-trump-to-biden-in-all-battleground-states\/\" title=\"HUGE! Sidney Powell Witness Whom NY Times Described as \"Always the Smartest Person in the Room\" Concludes Hundreds of Thousands of Votes Transferred from Trump to Biden IN ALL BATTLEGROUND STATES\">key battleground states<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative, to be deployed in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/three-more-states-ban-state-employees-from-using-tiktok-over-security-concerns-ccp-ties\/\" title=\"Three More States Ban State Employees From Using TikTok Over Security Concerns, CCP Ties\">half-dozen states<\/a>, comes as Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, vies to become Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3009344\/tim-scott-says-trumps-vice-presidential-pick-will-be-about-issues-voters-face\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>vice presidential<\/a> nominee. He is an outspoken surrogate for the former president on the trail but also emphasized his appeal with black voters in announcing the campaign to a small gathering of reporters in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do with black voters in South Carolina two or three times better than the average Republican,\u201d Scott said. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason why I win the reddest counties in South Carolina by about 8-10 points better than the average Republican because I performed better with the conservatives there, but I also win the blue counties where no Republicans are winning at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m able to bring together the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/chris-barron-trump-2024-crush-the-establishment\/\" title=\"Chris Barron: Trump 2024 - Crush the Establishment\">working-class coalition<\/a> that is typically more minority than any other place in the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Through his Great Opportunity PAC, Scott is deploying a $14.3 million travel and advertising budget that he and close aides say will build on the shift of nonwhite voters away from Biden. The plan is to flip a nominal number, just a few percentage points, of nonwhite voters, particularly black voters, in favor of Trump.<\/p>\n<p>A 3- to 5-percentage-point swing, Scott argued, could have \u201ctectonic shifts\u201d in battleground states that Democrats would be unable to accommodate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way to fill the hole. The coalition that is necessary for the Democrats to have success, period, is not just black and Hispanic; it\u2019s specifically black [voters] in the battleground states where they have to be successful,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you change those numbers in those larger cities, you can\u2019t make it up somewhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump attends a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-cheneys-defeat-a-complete-rebuke-of-jan-6-committee\/\" title=\"Trump Says Cheney\u2019s Defeat a \u2018Complete Rebuke\u2019 of Jan. 6 Committee\">primary election night party<\/a> at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, South Carolina, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, alongside Sens. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC). (AP Photo\/Andrew Harnik)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Biden and his campaign, with the help of Vice President Kamala Harris, launched a nationwide black voter initiative in Philadelphia last week as the party sounds alarm bells over polling showing lower performance with black voters.<\/p>\n<p>Although the vast majority of black voters still back Biden, 77%, over Trump, 18%, according to recent Pew Research Center polling, the president could be losing sizable ground to his predecessor. Biden captured nearly 90% of the black vote in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of African American men have said, \u2018You know what, I\u2019m going to take a closer look at the Republican Party and the GOP,\u2019\u201d Scott said. \u201cMuch to the chagrin of many folks, there\u2019s no doubt that African American men are wide open for a political shift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His political action committee\u2019s $14.3 million operating budget includes $9 million for voter contact, $4.8 million for earned and paid media, $330,000 for research and data, and $225,000 for other operations and legal expenses. An aide for the group who declined to be named said they\u2019ve raised roughly half the funding and plan to fundraise the rest in the coming months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere was always an undercurrent of conservatism in the black community, obviously in the social and faith spaces that we felt the most,\u201d the aide said. \u201cWe knew that there was potential there for us to kind of spread the message about conservatism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scott, echoing Trump, also argued there is more opportunity to convince black voters to vote for the former president after his conviction by a New York court on falsifying business records.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI honestly think this decision is helpful to driving even more folks to the Republican Party,\u201d Scott said. \u201cAfrican American men are fed up with this two-tiered justice system, so much so that I would suggest the number today is closer to 45% to 50% of African American men who are open\u201d to the GOP.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) is gearing up to mobilize black voters for ex-President Donald Trump with a new multimillion-dollar blitz. The goal is to thwart President Joe Biden&#8217;s victory in pivotal battlegrounds. This effort, set to roll out in six states, highlights Scott as the sole black Republican senator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3108,"featured_media":2261058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24056025920118.jpg.optimal.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2261057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/AP24056025920118.jpg.optimal.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261057","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\/3108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2261057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2261057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2261058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2261057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2261057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2261057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}