Senator's fundraising skill could be winning ticket for Trump's veepstakes

WASHINGTON, D.C. — As helium helps rise wealth for erstwhile President Trump, Sen. Tim Scott says he's got a connection that he's emphasizing arsenic helium meets with apical Republican donors.

"It is successful the champion involvement of the United States of America to person 4 much years of President Donald Trump. It is successful the champion involvement of our system to person 4 much years of Donald Trump," Scott said successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital.

Scott, who was 1 of astir a twelve Republican candidates who unsuccessfully challenged Trump for the 2024 GOP statesmanlike information earlier ending his White House bid precocious past year, endorsed the erstwhile president successful January.

The blimpish legislator from South Carolina implicit the past fewer months has go a apical Trump surrogate and is considered to beryllium among a tiny radical of contenders being considered arsenic Trump's moving mate connected the 2024 Republican ticket.

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Sen. Tim Scott, a Republican from South Carolina, gives a code alongside erstwhile President Trump during a run lawsuit successful Concord, New Hampshire, connected Jan. 19, 2024. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Scott has been gathering with donors arsenic Trump and the Republican National Committee effort to adjacent the ample fundraising spread they look successful the contention against President Biden and the Democratic National Committee successful the 2024 rematch betwixt the president and his GOP predecessor.

"The 1 happening you tin discern arsenic a apical donor and Republican and, frankly, a beardown concern idiosyncratic is that a beardown system makes each things possible," Scott said successful an interrogation Wednesday connected Capitol Hill.

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Scott, the lone Black Republican successful the Senate, has been precise progressive successful helping Trump rise money. He was among the imaginable Trump moving mates connected manus this past play astatine an RNC outpouring donor retreat that was headlined by the erstwhile president.

The legislator helped signifier a large fundraiser for Trump this twelvemonth up of the South Carolina primary. Next week, he's scheduled to be a top-dollar fundraiser successful New York City for the erstwhile president. And arsenic the New York Times archetypal reported, Scott volition big a gathering adjacent period successful the nation's superior that volition see large GOP donors who stay uncommitted to Trump.

Former President Trump sits beside Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., during a Fox News Channel municipality hallway connected Feb. 20, 2024, successful Greenville, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

"What I’m going to accidental to the donors crossed the state and specifically adjacent week is that 4 much years nether Donald Trump is bully for our economy. It’s bully for your pouch book. But much important, it’s bully for America’s future."

Scott was a voracious fundraiser arsenic helium cruised to a precise comfy 2022 Senate re-election, and helium transferred overmuch of his unused run currency implicit to his 2024 White House effort.

Asked if his fundraising efforts connected behalf of Trump springiness him a limb up successful the contention for the vice statesmanlike nomination, Scott kept connected message, saying, "I surely anticipation that each of our efforts volition pb to a amended America with 1 result: Donald Trump having 4 much years."

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As for immoderate contention betwixt him and the different imaginable contenders, Scott would lone accidental that "my extremity isn’t to beryllium successful a amended presumption than idiosyncratic other who wants something. My extremity is to marque definite that the adjacent procreation of leaders looks astatine maine and others and says, ‘Those guys, they burned a way that we get to locomotion down.'"

Scott was interviewed the time aft Indiana's Republican statesmanlike primary, wherever erstwhile Ambassador to the United Nations and erstwhile South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley won implicit 21% of the ballot against Trump, adjacent though she ended her White House bid 2 months ago.

Republican statesmanlike campaigner Nikki Haley announces that she is suspending her run successful Charleston, South Carolina, connected March 6, 2024. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)

Haley, who was the past campaigner lasting against Trump earlier dropping retired successful March, has not endorsed the erstwhile president.

Asked if helium had reached retired to his chap South Carolinian successful an effort to mend relations with Trump's governmental orbit, the legislator said no.

But Scott argued that "the bully quality is that the voters and the fundraising instrumentality that supported [Haley's] candidacy and our candidacy and different candidates are each coming backmost into the fold. The bully quality is President Trump is simply a unifying unit for our party."

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