Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, signed up to run in New Hampshire and is greeted by Secretary of State David Scanlan, right, and Deputy Secretary Erin Hennessey, next to Scott. At far left is Sybil Dupis, the great-granddaughter of State Rep. Stephen Bullock who in 1913 authored the first New Hampshire presidential primary legislation.
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, said he’s going to Chicago next Monday to criticize policies he charged have led to 70% of Black children being raised in predominantly single-parent homes.
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, signed up to run in New Hampshire and is greeted by Secretary of State David Scanlan, right, and Deputy Secretary Erin Hennessey, next to Scott. At far left is Sybil Dupis, the great-granddaughter of State Rep. Stephen Bullock who in 1913 authored the first New Hampshire presidential primary legislation.
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, signed up to run in New Hampshire and is greeted by Secretary of State David Scanlan, right, and Deputy Secretary Erin Hennessey, next to Scott. At far left is Sybil Dupis, the great-granddaughter of State Rep. Stephen Bullock who in 1913 authored the first New Hampshire presidential primary legislation.
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, signed up to run in New Hampshire and is greeted by Secretary of State David Scanlan, right, and Deputy Secretary Erin Hennessey, next to Scott. At far left is Sybil Dupis, the great-granddaughter of State Rep. Stephen Bullock who in 1913 authored the first New Hampshire presidential primary legislation.
Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, said he’s going to Chicago next Monday to criticize policies he charged have led to 70% of Black children being raised in predominantly single-parent homes.
CONCORD — Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, said he would oppose President Joe Biden’s $106 billion foreign aid package responding to violence in Israel because more than half of the money would go to Ukraine.
Scott said he’ll urge Senate leaders in both political parties to push back that this should be an aid plan only for Israel to deal with the violent attacks two weeks ago by Hamas, the Palestinian militant group.
“I was frustrated by his comments, he spent more time on Ukraine than he did on Israel,” Scott said of Biden’s prime time televised speech to the nation Thursday night.
The aid package has $61 billion slotted for Ukraine and $14 billion for Israel.
Other expenses in the plan include $10 billion for unspecified humanitarian efforts, $14 billion for managing the U.S.-Mexico border and fighting fentanyl trafficking, and $7 billion for the Indo-Pacific region, which includes Taiwan.
“We need to keep the focus on our ally who was bombed by a terrorist organization,” Scott told reporters after filing to get his name on the first-in-the-nation primary ballot.
Scott, 58, is the only Black politician ever elected to both houses of Congress and has already said his current term is his last in the U.S. Senate.
According to polls, voters view Scott more positively than any other Republican candidate in the race, but he’s been unable to get out of single digits in New Hampshire and Iowa.
Scott’s home state holds the third contest on the GOP calendar.
“I need to spend more time here. The more town halls I do, the better off I am,” Scott said.
“I have spent a disproportionate amount of my time doing the day job (in the Senate).”
Last week, the Super PAC supporting Scott canceled a good amount of the $40 million it had reserved in advertising this fall.
Scott said his campaign has more net cash than anyone in this race but former President Donald Trump.
“The fact of the matter is breaking through in this current cycle of news focused on Israel is very difficult,” Scott said.
“I’m not involved in it, but I am glad they are making the decision to wait (for ads) as we end this year and turn the attention to the primary.”
Scott will give a major speech Monday in the south side of Chicago about race and power, focusing on the decline of two-parent Black families.
“The one thing I can tell you is the approach to this nation and especially to the minority community for a new brand of socialism has been devastating,” Scott said.
Scott said he will take aim at teacher unions that he charged support more spending on public schools but fail to link it to more accountability.
“The closest thing to magic in America is a good education. Chicago spends $30,000 per student in that city and the kids consistently can’t read,” Scott said.
“You have the teachers union standing in the door of these schools and trapping students in failed systems.”
Scott supporters who turned out Friday included former House Speaker Gene Chandler along with Reps. Jose Cambrils and Alvin See, both R-Loudon.
Democratic Party Chairman Raymond Buckley said Scott’s views were not in the mainstream.
“After spending years as a MAGA champion in the Senate, Tim Scott has campaigned in New Hampshire on the same extreme agenda of extending Trump’s disastrous tax giveaways for the ultra-rich, banning abortion nationwide, and ending Social Security and Medicare as we know them,” Buckley said in a statement.
“Scott could not be more out of step with Granite Staters, and we’ll soundly reject him in 2024.”
Scott signed up on the historic desk that belonged to State Rep. Stephen Bullock of Richmond, responsible for writing the first-in-the-nation primary law back in 1913.
Bullock’s great-granddaughter, Cybil Dupuis, was on hand Friday for the ceremony.
Scanlan pointed out the maiden name of Dupuis, who was White, was Scott.
“It’s always good knowing I have family in the state,” Sen. Scott quipped.
