Republican Sen. Tim Scott Prepares for Presidential Run South Carolinian would join a 2024 primary field looking to wrest party mantle from Donald Trump
I am a strong supporter of our traditional conservative values. I believe that government should be protecting our right to religious freedom, not assaulting it.
I am strongly pro-life, supporting the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, and the No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act. Since Roe vs. Wade, more than 50 million Americans have never had the opportunity to touch our soil, and that is a tremendous tragedy.
As a cosponsor of the Health Care Conscience Rights Act, I have also been steadfast in supporting efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act’s intrusion on American’s religious beliefs. Government is already overreaching into our homes and businesses; it can’t be allowed to do the same with our faith.
The people of South Carolina have voted overwhelmingly to protect the traditional definition of marriage, and I stand with their decision.
I regard all life as sacred, and am proud of our values and traditions. For this reason I am committed to protecting the unborn and continuing to take a stand in defending traditional and religious values.
About Tim
Growing up in a poor, single parent household in North Charleston, South Carolina, a young Tim Scott grew accustomed to moving every few years, as well as the long hours his mom worked to keep a roof over their heads. After failing four classes his freshman year of high school, Tim’s path forward was murky at best.
But thankfully, he had a mom who stuck with him, and met a mentor that showed him the wisdom of conservative principles. Through their belief and his own determination, Tim got his grades back on track, graduated from Charleston Southern University, and eventually built his own successful small business.
Through the lessons taught by his mentor, Tim developed his mission statement: to positively affect the lives of a billion people. That led him to public service, where he was elected to Charleston County Council, the South Carolina House of Representatives, the United States House of Representatives, and the United States Senate.
Since joining the Senate in 2013, Senator Scott has been a national leader on efforts to bring opportunity to every American family. His signature legislation creating Opportunity Zones was passed as part of the 2017 tax reform package, and has the potential to bring billions of dollars of private investment into distressed communities across the country.
As he continues to lead on the implementation of the Opportunity Zones initiative, Senator Scott also plays a critical role in issues regarding workforce development, education and diversity. Whether it’s tackling the skills gap, making sure children have access to the educational environment best suited for them, or working to bring everyone to the table to find solutions, Senator Scott will keep fighting for South Carolinians every single day he serves in the U.S. Senate.
Taxes and spending Scott believes that federal spending and taxes should be reduced,[9] with a Balanced Budget Amendment and the FairTax respectively implemented for spending and taxes.
Health care Scott believes the Affordable Care Act should be repealed.[9][85][86] He has said that U.S. health care is among the greatest in the world,[86] that people all over the world come to study in American medical schools, waiting lists are rare, and that Americans are able to choose their insurance, providers, and course of treatment.[86] Scott supports an alternative to the ACA that he says keeps its benefits while controlling costs by reforming the medical tort system by limiting non-economic damages[86] and by reforming Medicare.[86]
In January 2019, Scott was one of six senators to cosponsor the Health Insurance Tax Relief Act, delaying the Health Insurance Tax for two years.[87]
Earmarks Scott opposes earmarks.[9]
Economic development Scott supports infrastructure development and public works for his district.[9] He opposes restrictions on deepwater oil drilling.[9] He proposed the opportunity zone designation in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
Social issues Scott describes himself as pro-life. He supports adult and cord blood stem cell research,[88] but opposes taxpayer-funded embryonic stem cell research[89] and the creation of human embryos for experimentation.[90] He opposes assisted suicide[88] and same-sex marriage.[91]
Immigration Scott supports federal legislation similar to Arizona SB 1070.[92] He supports strengthening penalties for employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.[92] He also promotes cultural assimilation by making English the official language in the government and requiring new immigrants to learn English.[92] He opposes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants.[93]
Labor Scott introduced a bill that would deny food stamps to families whose incomes declined to the point of eligibility because a family member was participating in a labor strike.[94]
Foreign policy Scott advocated continued military presence in Afghanistan and believes early withdrawal would benefit Al-Qaeda. He views Iran as the world's most dangerous country and believes the U.S. should aid pro-democracy groups there.[95] Scott opposed the 2011 military intervention in Libya.[96]
China In November 2017, in response to efforts by China to purchase US tech companies, Scott was one of nine cosponsors of a bill that would broaden the federal government's ability to prevent foreign purchases of U.S. firms by strengthening the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) to allow it to review and possibly decline smaller investments and add national security factors, including whether information about Americans would be exposed as part of transactions or whether a deal would facilitate fraud.[97]
Trade In January 2018, Scott was one of 36 Republican senators to sign a letter seeking to preserve the North American Free Trade Agreement by modernizing it for the 21st century.[98]
Police body cameras After the shooting of Walter Scott (no relation), Scott urged the Senate to hold hearings on police body cameras.[99]
Environment In 2017, Scott was one of 22 senators to sign a letter[100] to President Donald Trump urging him to withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement. According to OpenSecrets, Scott has received over $540,000 in political donations from oil, gas and coal interests since 2012.[101]
Judicial nominations
Scott meets with Judge Brett Kavanaugh in July 2018 Scott did not support the nomination of Ryan Bounds to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, effectively killing the nomination. His decision was based on what he called Bounds's "bigoted statements he made as a Stanford student in the 1990s." Marco Rubio joined him in opposing the nomination shortly thereafter, prompting Mitch McConnell to drop the nomination.[102]
Scott with Judge Amy Coney Barrett in September 2020 In November 2018, Scott bucked his party in opposing the nomination of Thomas A. Farr for a federal judgeship.[103] Farr had been accused of suppression of African-American voters.[103] Scott cited Farr's involvement in the 1984 and 1990 Senate campaigns of Jesse Helms, which sought to suppress black voters, and a 1991 memo from the Department of Justice under the George H. W. Bush administration that stated that "Farr was the primary coordinator of the 1984 'ballot security' program conducted by the NCGOP and 1984 Helms for Senate Committee. He coordinated several 'ballot security' activities in 1984, including a postcard mailing to voters in predominantly black precincts that was designed to serve as a basis to challenge voters on election day."[103] Further explaining his vote, Scott said the Republican Party was "not doing a very good job of avoiding the obvious potholes on race in America."[104] In an editorial, the Wall Street Journal criticized Scott, arguing that Democrats would see Farr's defeat as a "vindication of their most underhanded and inflammatory racial tactics."[105] In a letter to the Wall Street Journal, Scott said the publication was trying to "deflect concerns" about Farr's nomination.[106][107]
President Trump and race relations In 2017, Scott reacted to the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville by acknowledging that "Racism is real. It is alive".[108] Asked to comment on Trump's statement that there had been "good people" on both sides at the rally and that there was "blame on both sides" for the violence that ensued,[109] Scott said that while Trump had initially "rejected hatred, bigotry, and racism" in his "strong" comments on the ensuing Monday, his comments on Tuesday "started erasing the comments that were strong. What we want to see from our president is clarity and moral authority. And that moral authority is compromised when Tuesday happens. There's no question about that [...] I'm not going to defend the indefensible."[108]
Trump invited Scott to meet with him on Wednesday, after which Scott said that Trump "was very receptive to listening. That is a key to understanding", and that he had "obviously reflected on what he's said, on his intentions and the perceptions of those comments" which were "not exactly what he intended".[110]
Scott called upon Trump to delete his tweets that attacked demonstrators against the murder of George Floyd. Scott said, "Those are not constructive tweets, without any question. I'm thankful that we can have the conversation. ... We talked about the fact that there is a constructive way to have a dialogue with a nation in this similar fashion that we had a conversation after Charlottesville, the President will listen, if you engage him with the facts of the issue".[111] Scott also advocated that Trump delete his retweet of supporters chanting "white power", which he soon did.
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With the competition out there from Trump. Florida anti-"woke" Guv Desantis, and some others, I don't think Scott has a realistic chance at a presidential nomination. But as a VP candidate things look considerably brighter. His presence in theory could reassure moderate white voters who might be lukewarm towards a ranting right-winger type. He could also help neutralize various race issues the Dems bring up. At the same time his conservative rhetoric could help reassure rightist GOP voters.
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Scott could take a primary loss like Kamala Harris and after getting nationwide exposure use that to become VP candidate in the primary
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Vivek Ramaswamy Republican candidate for 2024 presidential race
quote:Originally posted by zarahan aka Enrique Cardova: [QB] With the competition out there from Trump. Florida anti-"woke" Guv Desantis, and some others,
Here's the latest anti-woke Republican presidential candidate (but will the good old boys vote for somebody named Ramaswamy?)
He even a book on it:
(three weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and sparking a backlash against the principles of stakeholder capitalism and corporate ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) investing
quote: Biotech entrepreneur slams US corporations for exploiting 'woke values' and pretending to care about social justice to boost profits and power in new book
Vivek Ramaswamy claims US companies are exploiting progressive values in new book, Woke Inc.: Inside Corporate America's Social Justice Scam The biotech entrepreneur accused corporations such as Coca-Cola, Delta, and Amazon of pretending to care about social justice to boost profits 'Here's how it works: pretend like you care about something other than profit and power, precisely to gain more of each,' Ramaswamy writes The 35-year-old founder of Roivant Sciences says the American people including 'sincere progressives' actually end up being 'the losers' He highlights the hypocrisy of companies such as Nike, that would rather pledge $40M to help the black community instead of making more affordable sneakers The 'new model of capitalism' also 'demands a dangerous expansion of corporate power that threatens to subvert American democracy,' he writes
Here he is on video announcing on Fox News to Tucker Carlson (another advocate of supposed meritocracy)
video title:
As President, I Will Decimate Affirmative Action in Every Sphere of American Life
Ramaswamy was born in 1985 in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised there. His parents immigrated from Vadakkencherry, Kerala, India.
His father graduated from a regional engineering college in Kerala, and worked for General Electric
as an engineer and patent attorney, while his mother graduated from Mysore Medical College and worked as a geriatric psychiatrist.
Ramaswamy has argued that American-style capitalism provides an antidote to the caste system in India by offering lower-caste citizens more economic opportunities
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Nikki Haley (born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa)
Haley, candidate for the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries for president of the United States. She announced her campaign in February 2023.
Haley was born Nimarata Nikki Randhawa on January 20, 1972, at Bamberg County Hospital in Bamberg, South Carolina, to immigrant Sikh parents from Punjab, India. Her father, Ajit Singh Randhawa, and her mother, Raj Kaur Randhawa, emigrated to the United States from Amritsar District, Punjab, India.
Kamala Devi Harris
Kamala Devi Harris was born in Oakland, California, on October 20, 1964. Her Harris's Jamaican-American father, Donald J. Harris, a Stanford University professor emeritus of economics, arrived in the United States from British Jamaica in 1961,mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a Tamil Indian biologist who was born in Chennai , formerly known as Madras, the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state.
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Interestingly, there are two Indian Republican presidential candidates now and additionally Kamala Harris is half Tamil Indian although they all seem to be quite 'Americanized', their Indian backgrounds do not seem to be that politically relevant
Also of note, Larry Elder is still deciding if he will run, should finalize his decision in March
Trump is already taking shots at DeSantis, although DeSantis expected to make the decision to run or not no earlier than May
Other high profile people who are considered potential candidates but haven't said anything yet are Texas governor Greg Abbott and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio of Florida
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There is a split now in the Republican party some are for Ukraine support, other are more isolationist. Most in the Senate support Ukraine but many in the House do not
Nikki Haley at the moment is supports Ukraine Trump and DeSantis are leaning isolationist and this position might be a factor in the general election another peculiar element, unlike George Bush's ideas on regime change, if Trump or DeSantis win they might have a more anti-war position than Biden (interesting overlapping agreement with many of the left)
But also keep in mind, in his last couple of years at the same time Trump was more friendly with Putin he was calling Covid the "China virus" at every chance he could get So it's hard to tell what Biden would do as compared to Trump if China invades Taiwan (some predict in 2025)
It is a very complex situation. If Trump were to win, take an isolationist position and withdraw support to Ukraine would he also be isolationist if China takes Taiwan and controls the microchip industry as well as trade going through or not going through the South China sea?
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lol I have to laugh at Larry Elder running anything more than a minor symbolic campaign. As for Ramaswamy he doesn't have the political exposure and experience like Scott. Biotech guru- sure. Common touch or mass "angry" appeal politico? Not so much..
In addition, he comes off as a libertarian type flavor, partly attractive, but I don't think enough to sway a massive set of GOP voters. Scott or Desantin as politicians have more of an appeal. Even Kammy had some political chops to use for her brief "flash" campaign.
Ramasamy may also suffer from the negative perception some white working class types, or right wingers have of libertarian types: that they are too willing to sell out traditional values in favor of abstract "freedoms", too willing to allow in excessive immigration that will take away American jobs, too wedded to dog-eat-dog competition that puts "traditional" white types at a disadvantage vis a vis say Asians, too linked to supposed "Jewish" neocons (although quite happy to use the intellectual firepower of the alleged neocons when it suits) and so on. There is an anti-intellectual, anti-"egghead" streak among Some "Maga" supporters.
A book hitting all the right talking points about "antifa" and "wokeness" is one thing, actual high public office is another, this angle would argue.
But could it not also be argued that a "disruptor" campaign by a "non-establishment" candidate, similar to the Perceived "outsider" campaign Trump ran yield victory?
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