The Republican 2024 Presidential sweepstakes field just keeps shrinking to Doanld Trump’s delight…..
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina announced Sunday night that he is dropping out of the 2024 Republican presidential campaign, shocking a TV interviewer and even his own campaign staff with an abrupt departure from the race.
“When I go back to Iowa, it will not be as a presidential candidate. I am suspending my campaign,” Scott said in an appearance on former GOP Rep. Trey Gowdy’s Fox News program.
“I think the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, have been really clear that they’re telling me: not now,” Scott continued.
The announcement was a surprise: Gowdy appeared to do a double-take as Scott made his statement, and multiple Scott staffers told NBC News they got no warning he was ending the campaign, only finding out by watching the candidate say so on TV.
Scott’s campaign even sent out a fundraising email not long before he announced he was leaving the race. “We want to give you ONE LAST CHANCE to donate this weekend and help Tim reach his campaign goal. Can you chip in to help Tim win?” the campaign wrote.
His decision comes days after the third Republican presidential debate in Miami, after which the South Carolina senator canceled a scheduled weekend campaign swing in Iowa, citing the flu…..
Another African American GOP Presidential candidate that burns out before the 1st primary.
File alongside Ben Carson and Herman Cain.
Tim should have done his research before he hired that temp to play his girlfriend.
Scott mistakenly bought into the idea that there were lots of Republicans tired of Trump who wanted to return to the sunny optimism of the long ago Reagan years.
Are there some? Sure but near a majority?No and certainly not enough to sustain a presidential candidacy.
Scott will return to the Senate ,serve out his term and then leave the Senate.
Wouldn’t Sen. Scott, in the tradition of South Carolina Senators Strom Thurmond, Fritz Hollings and Lindsey Graham, want to stay on to acquire seniority and influence?
Scott said,during his Senate campaign in 2022,that this would be his last term.
Scott has 5 years to think about his comment…..
Representative Brian Higgins, Democrat of New York, said on Sunday that he would leave Congress in February.
Mr. Higgins, a Buffalo native who has spent 19 years in the House, said he would step down before the end of his term after a year in which “institutional norms have been compromised.”
“I think, unfortunately, this is the beginning of a bad trend, not the end of it,” he said.
Mr. Higgins, 64, noted that the chamber has been gripped by chaos and dysfunction. He assigns blame to the growing influence of Republicans seeking public attention and viral moments through aggressive floor speeches and controversial legislative amendments.
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Under New York law, Gov. Kathy Hochul has to call a special election next year to find a successor for Mr. Higgins.
In his 10th term in Congress, Mr. Higgins is a center-leaning member of the Ways and Means and Budget Committees. He plans to remain in office until the first week of February. His resignation will open a seat representing New York’s 26th Congressional District, a heavily Democratic region including Buffalo and Niagara Falls.
Dozens of incumbent members of the Senate and House have announced decisions not to seek re-election, and a growing number have said their departure will be a retirement from public office.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/us/politics/higgins-house-democrat-new-york.html
Indeed there ARE people feed up with the different Congressional bodies….
The place IS A hot mess…..
Tim Scott’s future could be cloudy, or?
Maybe Not…..
Free of a presidential campaign and now able to be in public with ‘girlfriend’?
Life might turn out to be much better?