FIRST ON FOX: Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., is working to steer the Senate Republican marketing campaign arm within the subsequent election cycle, sharing the announcement completely with Fox Information Digital.
On Friday, Scott launched his bid to steer the Nationwide Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) for the 2026 midterm cycle, after hypothesis final month that he deliberate to take action.
“Let’s do that! I’m working for NRSC Chair as a result of two years of a Republican agenda is nice, however 4 years of success below Donald J. Trump is even higher,” he informed Fox Information Digital in a press release.
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Scott is hoping to steer Republicans within the subsequent cycle of Senate elections. (Reuters)
“Meaning the complete 4 years of his presidency will create low inflation, safe borders and secure streets, resulting in a era of American prosperity! With Donald J. Trump within the White Home and Republicans main the U.S. Senate, we’ll defend our majority in 2026 and create alternatives for all Individuals.”Â
The South Carolina senator ran for president within the 2024 Republican major earlier than dropping out and endorsing Trump. He was additionally thought of a contender to be Trump’s working mate earlier than Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, was chosen.Â
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Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, arrives to talk throughout an election evening occasion on the Palm Seaside Conference Heart Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Seaside, Fla. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Pictures)
Scott moreover rolled out three high-profile endorsements to go together with his marketing campaign announcement.
Present NRSC Chairman Steve Daines, R-Mont., who simply efficiently led the marketing campaign arm in serving to Republicans take again the bulk, has thrown his assist behind Scott.Â
“We took again the U.S. Senate in 2024, and there’s no one I belief extra to guard the bulk in 2026 than Tim Scott,” Daines mentioned in a press release.Â
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Sen. Tim Scott spoke at a South Carolina GOP delegation breakfast Wednesday (Getty Pictures)
The South Carolina Republican was additionally endorsed by Senate Republican Convention Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
“Tim’s inspiring message, report of fundraising and imaginative and prescient for the occasion makes him the right accomplice for President Trump,” Barrasso mentioned. “Collectively, they’ll defend and develop the Republican majority. There’s no person higher than Tim Scott.”
“Defending the bulk and rising the occasion begins with a imaginative and prescient and the sources to compete anyplace. That’s the reason I’m assured in Tim main the NRSC into 2026,” Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., mentioned in his personal assertion backing Scott.Â
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Minority voters shifted towards Trump in 2024. (iStock)
The election will probably be held on Nov. 13 and determined by way of a secret poll together with different Senate GOP management races.Â
Scott’s bid for the highest NRSC function comes on the heels of the Republican Social gathering and Trump seeing important positive aspects throughout the nation with minorities within the 2024 elections.Â
As considered one of solely 4 Black senators within the 118th Congress and the one Black Republican senator, Scott has made quite a lot of efforts to achieve minority voters on behalf of the GOP.Â
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Within the final three months, he held a Black monetary literacy occasion in North Carolina, an occasion on Black Alternative Zones in Wisconsin, a Black pastor occasion in Michigan and faculty alternative occasions in Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Chicago.Â
He additionally joined fellow Black Republican representatives Burgess Owens, R-Utah; Byron Donalds, R-Fla.; John James, R-Mich.; and Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, earlier within the 12 months to launch a weekly video collection devoted to the voices of Black members of the GOP. The collection was known as “America’s Beginning 5.”Â
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