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 solely 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 beneath Donald J. Trump is even higher,” he instructed Fox Information Digital in an announcement.
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Scott is hoping to steer Republicans within the subsequent cycle of Senate elections. (Reuters)
“Which means the complete 4 years of his presidency will create low inflation, safe borders and protected streets, resulting in a technology of American prosperity! With Donald J. Trump within the White Home and Republicans main the U.S. Senate, we are going to defend our majority in 2026 and create alternatives for all Individuals.”
The South Carolina senator ran for president within the 2024 Republican main earlier than dropping out and endorsing Trump. He was additionally thought-about a contender to be Trump’s working mate earlier than Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, was chosen.
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Former President Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, arrives to talk throughout an election evening occasion on the Palm Seaside Conference Middle Nov. 6, 2024, in West Palm Seaside, Fla. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos)
Scott moreover rolled out three high-profile endorsements to go along 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 help behind Scott.
“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 stated in an announcement.
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Sen. Tim Scott spoke at a South Carolina GOP delegation breakfast Wednesday (Getty Photos)
The South Carolina Republican was additionally endorsed by Senate Republican Convention Chairman John Barrasso, R-Wyo.
“Tim’s inspiring message, document of fundraising and imaginative and prescient for the get together makes him the proper associate for President Trump,” Barrasso stated. “Collectively, they are going to defend and develop the Republican majority. There’s no one higher than Tim Scott.”
“Defending the bulk and rising the get together 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., stated in his personal assertion backing Scott.
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Minority voters shifted towards Trump in 2024. (iStock)
The election shall be held on Nov. 13 and determined through a secret poll together with different Senate GOP management races.
Scott’s bid for the highest NRSC function comes on the heels of the Republican Social gathering and Trump seeing vital positive aspects throughout the nation with minorities within the 2024 elections.
As one among solely 4 Black senators within the 118th Congress and the one Black Republican senator, Scott has made a wide range of efforts to succeed in minority voters on behalf of the GOP.
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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 college selection occasions in Wisconsin, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Chicago.
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 yr to launch a weekly video sequence devoted to the voices of Black members of the GOP. The sequence was known as “America’s Beginning 5.”
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