{"id":879450,"date":"2021-10-14T13:58:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=879450"},"modified":"2021-10-14T13:58:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T17:58:54","slug":"tim-scott-raises-massive-8-million-ahead-of-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tim-scott-raises-massive-8-million-ahead-of-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott Raises Massive $8 Million Ahead Of Reelection"},"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\">18<\/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-raises-massive-8-million-ahead-of-reelection%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=879450&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>South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott raised nearly $8.3 million in 2021\u2019s third quarter, Politico first reported Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/10\/13\/tim-scott-fundraising-reelection-2024-515906\">outlet added<\/a> that Scott has raised nearly $20 million so far this year, and accepted contributions from approximately 82,000 donors in the third quarter. His massive haul, however, is slightly less than the $9.6 million he raised in the second quarter, according to his <a href=\"https:\/\/docquery.fec.gov\/cgi-bin\/forms\/C00540302\/1526229\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Federal Election Commission filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Scott said in July that while he would seek election in 2022, that term if he won would be his last. However, he leapt onto the national political scene in April after he gave the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/28\/tim-scott-address-republicans-mccarthy-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Republican rebuttal<\/a> to President Joe Biden\u2019s State of the Union, and has been <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/25\/tim-scott-wont-run-after-2022-2024-presidential-race\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">floated<\/a> as a potential 2024 presidential contender.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7199767\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7199767\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tim Scott, middle, led police reform negotiations for months with Rep. Karen Bass and Sen. Cory Booker. Talks fell apart in September. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>His quarterly total broke hours before the Oct. 15 filing deadline. Politico noted that Florida Democratic Rep. Val Demmings, who is challenging Sen. Marco Rubio, was the only candidate so far who has outraised Scott, bringing in $8.4 million. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/13\/ted-cruz-raises-over-3-million-third-quarter-2021-senate-fundraising\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: EXCLUSIVE: Ted Cruz Raises $3.7 Million In Q3 2021)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both House Republicans and Democrats\u2019 respective campaign arms <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/14\/republicans-raise-over-12-million-september-clear-100-million-mark-2021\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced<\/a> Thursday that they had raised record totals as the battle for the House intensifies. Democrats, seeking to defend their 220-212 majority, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=j&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2021%2F10%2F14%2Fhouse-democrats-campaign-arm-record-fundraising-defend-majority%2F&amp;uct=1628811701&amp;usg=1mZX2ae1KKtxmEtGFnGnzWquREw.&amp;source=chat\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised<\/a> $35.8 million in the third quarter, $10 million more than Republicans over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>And while House Democrats raised about $2 million more than Republicans in September, Republicans have slightly more cash-on-hand with $65 million compared to Democrats\u2019 $63 million.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina Republican Sen. Tim Scott raised nearly $8.3 million in 2021\u2019s third quarter, Politico first reported Thursday.The outlet added that Scott has raised nearly $20 million so far this &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-879450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879450","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}