Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., will reportedly endorse Donald Trump for president, becoming the latest former GOP primary opponent of Trump to back his 2024 campaign to return to the White House.
According to The New York Times, he will make the endorsement official during a Trump rally in New Hampshire on Friday night.
Scott, who was the only Black candidate in the Republican presidential primary race, is the highest-ranking Black Republican in the United States.
Democrats and advocates swiftly dismissed Scott’s endorsement of Trump, slamming the South Carolina senator for supporting the former president’s “extreme” policies and undemocratic agenda.
“No one is less surprised than me that Tim Scott would throw his full support behind Donald Trump’s plans to ban abortion nationwide, destroy our democracy, rip away access to affordable health care, and give more tax breaks to the wealthy at the expense of working families,” said Christale Spain, the chair of the South Carolina Democratic Party.
“They’re the same dangerous policies he’s been parroting in our state for years,” Spain said of Scott. “[His] endorsement makes clear what we’ve been saying all along – Tim Scott is just as MAGA as Donald Trump, and their extreme agenda would be a disaster for this country.”
Markus Batchelor, national political director at People For the American Way, said, “Any impression that Tim Scott stands in defense of democracy over his own ambition will die tonight on a stage in New Hampshire.”
He added, “Tim Scott is doing now what he’s always done: sacrificed principle and ignored hard facts to advance politically.”
Antjuan Seawright, a Democratic strategist, told theGrio that Scott, as a presidential candidate, was “very methodical” in not really attacking Trump, who is without question the frontrunner to become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
“That gave hint to the fact that he…
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