Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a former 2024 marketing campaign rival to former President Donald Trump, endorsed the forty fifth president on Friday night time at a New Hampshire occasion — marking a brutal, even probably deadly, blow to the marketing campaign of former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), who first appointed Scott to the U.S. Senate in 2012.
Scott enthusiastically introduced his assist for Trump on the Harmony, New Hampshire, occasion.
South Carolina Senator @votetimscott endorses Donald J. Trump for President! pic.twitter.com/9ehXhLFaSH
— Trump Warfare Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 20, 2024
By the top of his remarks, Scott had the Trump supporters engaged and saying the previous president’s identify to complete his sentences:
We’d like a president who will shut our southern border at the moment: We’d like Donald Trump. We’d like a president who will unite our nation: We’d like Donald Trump. We’d like a president who will shield your Social Safety and my mamma’s Social Safety: We’d like Donald Trump. We’d like a president at the moment who will cease the crime and recklessness within the streets. We’d like a president who will restore legislation and order: We’d like Donald Trump. We’d like a president who will decrease our taxes and never increase our taxes: We’d like a president like Donald Trump.
We’d like a president who understands the American individuals are sick and bored with being sick and drained: We’d like [Donald Trump]. We’d like a president our overseas adversaries are afraid of and our allies respect: We’d like [Donald Trump]. You see, we want a president who doesn’t see black or white. We see a president who sees Individuals as one American household: We’d like [Donald Trump]. And that’s why I got here to the very heat state of New Hampshire to endorse the subsequent president of those United States: President Donald Trump.
Trump referred to as Tim Scott a “very, excellent man and a really revered man” following the endorsement and thanked him for his journey from Washington, DC, to the Granite State.
“Having his endorsement means loads. We now have great numbers of endorsements; they’re pouring in proper now, however having Tim is essential,” he added.
The forty fifth now has endorsements from some two dozen U.S. senators and 5 former 2024 Republican presidential candidates, together with Scott, Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), 38-year-old entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, Radio host Larry Elder, and businessman Perry Johnson.
“Now’s the time … for the Republican Celebration to unify — we’ve got to unify. We now have to go after these loopy those that we’re coping with,” Trump mentioned on Friday.
“As a substitute of losing tons of of thousands and thousands of {dollars} attacking Trump and others, we have to come collectively and focus all our vitality and assets in defeating crooked Joe Biden — our worst president,” he added.
Trump contended, “Haley has made an unholy alliance with RINOs, By no means Trumpers, Individuals for ‘no’ Prosperity … globalists and radical-left communists to get liberals and Biden supporters to vote for her within the Republican major.”
Haley, who’s Trump’s prime competitors in Granite State if polls are appropriate, appointed Scott to the usSenate in 2012 as former Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) left the physique to go up the Heritage Basis.
However their relationship appeared to bitter in the course of the major, with ABC Information noting Haley “forged the primary stone” at a Republican debate in late September.
“She drew first blood,” Scott advised Fox Information’s Neil Cavuto. Per the outlet, “She began off by making it private. I, frankly, didn’t have a adverse remark about her.”