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☆ G.O.P. Voters Said No to Tim Scott. His Girlfriend Said Yes.
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-21 | by ( Maya King | More About Maya King | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who for years faced speculation about his marital status, on Saturday proposed to Mindy Noce, his girlfriend and an interior designer who lives in Charleston. It’s been a whirlwind few days for Mr. Scott, whose endorsement of former President Donald J. Trump at a New Hampshire rally on Friday renewed talk about his consideration as a running mate, should Mr. Trump win the Republican nomination. Mr. Scott made his relationship with Ms. Noce public when he brought her onstage after a Republican presidential primary debate — the last he would participate in before suspending his campaign in November. A spokesman for Mr. Scott, Nathan Brand, confirmed the engagement, which took place on Kiawah Island, S.C., near Charleston. Mr. Scott and Ms. Noce had a celebratory dinner afterward and Ms. Noce attended church the following morning, wearing her engagement ring.

Persons: Tim Scott of, Mindy Noce, It’s, Scott, Donald J, Trump, Nathan Brand, Noce Organizations: Republican, The Washington Post Locations: Tim Scott of South Carolina, Charleston, New Hampshire

Since 2020, Democratic strategists and activists have fixated on how to expand their gains in Georgia, once a Republican stronghold and now a true battleground. But some of the state’s most prominent grass-roots organizers — those responsible for engineering President Biden’s victory in 2020 and that of two Democratic U.S. senators in 2021 — are growing concerned that efforts and attention are waning four years later. The national money that once flowed freely from Democratic groups to help win pivotal Senate contests in Georgia has been slow in coming. Leading organizers, just over a month from the anticipated start of their initiatives to mobilize voters for the presidential election, say they are confronting a deep sense of apathy among key constituencies that will take even more resources to contend with. More, it has led them to question how seriously Democratic donors and party leaders will take the state in 2024, even as Mr. Biden’s campaign has indicated that a repeat victory in Georgia is part of his strategy.

Persons: Biden’s, canvassers — Organizations: Democratic, Republican, Democratic U.S Locations: Georgia

It was late October and Tim Scott’s campaign manager, Jennifer DeCasper, was trying to rally the troops on an all-staff call, announcing that they would soon relocate to Iowa in a last-ditch move to salvage his floundering presidential bid. She broke the news from the back seat of an Uber, according to four people familiar with the call. As the car bumped through the streets of Chicago after a Scott speech had run long, Ms. DeCasper insisted, “We are not failing.”But by then, even many of those around Mr. Scott believed his candidacy had already run its course. And his super PAC had canceled its own television ads days before Ms. DeCasper’s staff call. From 2020 to 2022, Mr. Ellison donated $35 million to Scott-aligned groups, and a huge check had seemed a foregone conclusion when Mr. Ellison showed up at the Scott kickoff and got a shout-out from the stage.

Persons: Tim Scott’s, Jennifer DeCasper, Uber, Scott, DeCasper, “, Larry Ellison, Ellison Organizations: PAC, Scott Locations: Iowa, Chicago

Vice President Kamala Harris will travel to Columbia, S.C., on Friday to formally file President Biden’s paperwork to appear on the Democratic primary ballot in the state, according to two people familiar with her plans. Ms. Harris’s trip will punctuate the end of a tumultuous week for her and Mr. Biden. The Biden campaign had said its South Carolina paperwork would be filed by Representative James Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat who helped resuscitate Mr. Biden’s 2020 campaign by endorsing him three days before his state’s primary. Mr. Biden repaid the favor by pushing the Democratic National Committee to put South Carolina at the front of the party’s presidential nominating calendar. Ms. Harris and Mr. Clyburn will meet to file the primary paperwork at the South Carolina Democratic Party headquarters, said the people familiar with the plans, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the trip was supposed to be a surprise.

Persons: Kamala Harris, Biden, Mr, Donald J, Trump, James Clyburn, Biden’s, Harris, Clyburn Organizations: Democratic, Democrats, Republican, South Carolina Democrat, Democratic National Committee, South Carolina Democratic Party Locations: Columbia, Virginia , Kentucky, Ohio, South Carolina

Black voters are more disconnected from the Democratic Party than they have been in decades, frustrated with what many see as inaction on their political priorities and unhappy with President Biden, a candidate they helped lift to the White House just three years ago. New polls by The New York Times and Siena College found that 22 percent of Black voters in six of the most important battleground states said they would support former President Donald J. Trump in next year’s election, and 71 percent would back Mr. Biden. The drift in support is striking, given that Mr. Trump won just 8 percent of Black voters nationally in 2020 and 6 percent in 2016, according to the Pew Research Center. A Republican presidential candidate has not won more than 12 percent of the Black vote in nearly half a century. Mr. Biden has a year to shore up his standing, but if numbers like these held up across the country in November 2024, they would amount to a historic shift: No Democratic presidential candidate since the civil rights era has earned less than 80 percent of the Black vote.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, Mr Organizations: Democratic Party, House, The New York Times, Siena College, Pew Research Center, Republican, Democratic

A Washington Post/FiveThirtyEight/Ipsos survey of Republicans after the debate showed that only 4 percent believed Mr. Scott had won, placing him toward the back of the pack. The day after the debate, he garnered only 3 percent of the candidate searches, which can be a metric of voter interest. Eric Levine, a New York lawyer and Republican donor who attended the debate as a guest of Mr. Scott’s campaign, said he believed the senator had won by staying above the fray. “Very few questions were actually asked of Tim Scott. “Tim Scott is built for this race,” Ms. Gitcho said.

Persons: Scott, Trump, Vivek Ramaswamy, Eric Levine, Scott’s, “, Mr, Levine, Tim Scott, insinuate, ” Gail Gitcho, “ Tim Scott, Ms, Gitcho, ” Organizations: Washington Post, Mr, Google, Republican Locations: New York

☆ Trump Wasn’t Invited to This Georgia Event, but His Presence Was Still Felt
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-19 | by ( Maya King | More About Maya King | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +2 min

On and offstage, participants and attendees alike said they believed that defeating President Biden would not be possible as long as the party repeated Mr. Trump’s assertions that the 2020 election was stolen. Georgia will play a pivotal role in the outcome of the general election, both because of recent election outcomes and because the state has the jurisdiction in the most recent Trump indictment. Brian Kemp, one of the few figures who was asked about and who directly addressed Mr. Trump. He still has a solid, double-digit lead over his rivals, according to recent state and national polls. At the weekend event, themed “Forward: Which Way,” attendees saw a chance to hear voices other than Mr. Trump’s.

Persons: Biden, Trump, ”, Brian Kemp, Mr, Tucker Carlson, Trump’s, Tim Scott of, DeSantis, Vivek Ramaswamy Organizations: White, Republican, Fox News Locations: Georgia, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Iowa, Florida

Georgia Republicans say they know a winning message for 2024: Under President Biden, voters are struggling with inflation, gas prices are on the rise and undocumented migrants are streaming across the southern border. But they fear Donald J. Trump, the front-runner for the Republican nomination, won’t be able to stay on message. Mr. Trump’s obsession with the 2020 election, now heightened by two criminal cases over his efforts to steal it, threatens to reopen wounds in the state’s G.O.P. If Mr. Trump is the nominee, it’s unlikely he would contain his vitriol toward the officials who defied him to certify the 2020 election results, including the state’s popular governor — making for potential competing visions. “I don’t think he’ll let us” unite, said Jack Kingston, a former House Republican from Georgia and a Trump ally.

Persons: Biden, Donald J, Trump, won’t, —, “, Jack Kingston, Brian Kemp, ” Organizations: Republicans, Republican Locations: Georgia

☆ Tim Scott Awaits His Moment. But Will It Come?
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-22 | by ( Maya King | More About Maya King | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He is rising in the polls and turning heads in Iowa and New Hampshire, behind heavy spending on ads that play to voters’ appetite for a leader who is upbeat and positive in a dark political moment. He has experience, a compelling personal story and a campaign war chest that gives him staying power in a Republican primary that so far has been a two-man race. And among Republican voters, he is the candidate that everyone seems to like. Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina is perfectly positioned to seize the moment if former President Donald Trump collapses under the weight of his criminal cases or if the challenge to him from Gov. The only question is whether either moment will come.

Persons: Tim Scott of, Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Trump Organizations: Republican, Gov Locations: Iowa, New Hampshire, Tim Scott of South Carolina, Florida

elites” and his disappointment in Mr. Trump for failing to fire Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, who helped lead the Covid-19 response in the final year of the Trump administration. On Tuesday morning, Mr. DeSantis discussed military policy outside Columbia, the capital of South Carolina, a state that is dependent on military bases and has a large veteran population. Mr. DeSantis has avoided mainstream news outlets, hoping to take his message directly to conservative audiences. Large donors have met in recent days with Mr. Scott and the wealthy entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. The DeSantis political operation may be strengthening its jabs against Mr. Trump.

Persons: DeSantis, Trump, ”, Anthony S, Fauci, Jake Tapper, Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Kim Reynolds Organizations: Chinese Communist Party, “, CNN, DeSantis, Politico Locations: Tega Cay, S.C, North Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina, West Columbia

Senate Democrats staring down tough re-election fights can look to one bright spot: sizable fund-raising hauls and cash stockpiles more than a year before Election Day. Saturday was the deadline for campaigns to file spending and fund-raising reports for the three months between April 1 and June 30. Most of the vulnerable incumbent Democratic senators also topped their prospective Republican challengers in fund-raising and will head into the fall with several million dollars in cash on hand. The race for Senate control is in its earliest months, and Republicans are still building campaigns. Yet the Democrats’ relative financial strength in the second quarter of an off year suggests significant energy as the party aims to protect its slim majority next year.

Organizations: Democratic, Republican Locations: — Montana , Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Wisconsin

☆ Nikki Haley Makes Her Pitch in New Hampshire. It’s Unclear Whether Voters Will Swing.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-09 | by ( Maya King | More About Maya King | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

During her appearances, Ms. Haley also mixed in subtle digs at her primary rivals. “I did not go to an Ivy League school like the fellas that are in this race,” she told voters in a North Conway community center on Thursday. “I went to a public university.” Touting her degree in accounting from Clemson University, she said: “I’m not a lawyer. Frank Murphy, 54, who moved to northern New Hampshire from South Carolina in 2016, knows Ms. Haley as his former governor. post, he raised his hand within the first few minutes of her speech to tell her he was from Charleston.

Persons: Haley, “, ”, Ms, Haley’s, Frank Murphy Organizations: South Carolina’s, Ivy League, Clemson University, Washington, Lancaster Locations: New Hampshire, North Conway, South Carolina, Charleston

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