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‘I’m disappointed’: Even Tim Scott’s friends and fans see a campaign on the ropes
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 22, 2023 12:12pm |
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| Category | News |
| Author | Natalie Allison and Burgess Everett |
| News Date | Sunday, October 22, 2023 12:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Tim Scott’s old friend and former colleague in the Senate, Cory Gardner, kept pleading with him to get on TV more.
It was one thing, Gardner told Scott in multiple recent conversations, to appear regularly on Fox News, according to two people with knowledge of the talks. But a wider audience would form high opinions of Scott, Gardner suggested, if they actually saw and heard from him as a presidential candidate.
In a strategy shift, Scott over the past two weeks has done just that, appearing eight times on CNN, CBS, ABC and CNBC after spending a summer engaging almost exclusively with the conservative press.
The shake-up may come too late to energize Scott’s faltering campaign.
After months of staying out of the conversation, the South Carolina senator is now sputtering below 2 percent in national polls. On Saturday, Scott’s hometown newspaper called for the Republican field to coalesce not around Scott, but rival South Carolinian Nikki Haley, to take on Donald Trump directly. Even some prominent Scott fans are beginning to acknowledge Scott’s presidential campaign has been a disappointment, and that his path forward appears dim. |
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