Trump holds commanding lead in polls forward of key New Hampshire major on Tuesday.
United States Senator Tim Scott has endorsed his former rival Donald Trump for the Republican nomination for president, in a setback for Trump’s closest challenger and fellow South Carolinian Nikki Haley.
Tim Scott, who dropped out of the 2024 presidential race in November, appeared on stage with Trump in New Hampshire to supply his backing forward of subsequent week’s high-stakes major within the state.
“We want a president who sees People as one American household, and that’s why I got here to the very heat state of New Hampshire to endorse the following president of america, President Donald Trump,” Scott advised Trump supporters in Harmony on Friday.
Scott, whose unsuccessful marketing campaign burdened the Christian religion and conservative values he discovered rising up in a single-parent family, argued that Trump would minimize taxes and convey People collectively as president.
“We want a president who unites our nation,” stated Scott, who’s the lone Black Republican within the Senate.
Scott didn’t point out Nikki Haley, the previous UN ambassador and governor of South Carolina who first appointed Scott to the Senate in 2017.
Haley is hoping for a powerful efficiency in New Hampshire on Tuesday to maintain her presidential bid afloat following Trump’s commanding victory in last week’s Iowa caucuses.
Haley, who earlier on Friday received the endorsement of Vermont Governor Phil Scott, is trailing Trump by double digits in New Hampshire, with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis a distant third within the state.
In New Hampshire, Trump requested voters to assist convey a swift finish to the Republican race to permit him to give attention to beating President Joe Biden in November.
“We need to win by huge numbers,” Trump stated, “so everyone has to vote.”
Trump additionally bashed his rivals, arguing that Haley was “not succesful” of being president and lambasting DeSantis’s slide within the polls as “one of many nice self-destructions I feel I’ve ever witnessed”.