South Carolina Conservatives Ready For Sen. Tim Scott
South Carolina Conservatives Ready For Sen. Tim Scott
If South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) appoints Rep. Tim Scott (R) to replace outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint (R) — as DeMint wants her to, according to a source — she won’t face much opposition from inside the state, according to several conservative activists TPM spoke with Thursday.
Scott, who represents Charleston in Congress and was just elected to his second term, is as good a pick as any, tea party activists told TPM. Activists said that if DeMint wants him as his replacement, there will be a lot of pressure on Haley to put Scott in office until 2014’s special election.
It would be the next step in a meteoric rise for Scott, who first got to Congress by defeating one of the state’s most powerful political families. Scott defeated the son of the late Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) in the 2010 Republican primary with the help of support from Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, among other top national conservatives. The win was cast as an “irony” in the press, with an African American tea partier defeating the son of one of America’s most notorious segregationists. (Thurmond won a seat in the state Senate on Nov. 6.)
Once on the Hill, Scott quickly endeared himself to his fellow Republicans. Speaker Boehner made him one of two freshman liaisons to House leadership, and Scott’s face was often on TV pushing Republican policies. His influence extended to the 2012 Republican presidential primaries in South Carolina — the major candidates each held a joint town hall with Scott ahead of the Palmetto State primary.
more:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/12/south-carolina-conservatives-ready-for-sen-tim-scott.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
= new reply since forum marked as read
Never gonna happen. But then, the OTHER SC senator is Lindsay... so....
