Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), a former 2024 campaign rival to former President Donald Trump, endorsed the 45th president on Friday night at a New Hampshire event — marking a brutal, even possibly fatal, blow to the campaign of former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC), who first appointed Scott to the U.S. Senate in 2012.
Scott enthusiastically announced his support for Trump at the Concord, New Hampshire, event.
South Carolina Senator @votetimscott endorses Donald J. Trump for President! pic.twitter.com/9ehXhLFaSH
— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) January 20, 2024
By the end of his remarks, Scott had the Trump supporters engaged and saying the former president’s name to finish his sentences:
We need a president who will close our southern border today: We need Donald Trump. We need a president who will unite our country: We need Donald Trump. We need a president who will protect your Social Security and my mamma’s Social Security: We need Donald Trump. We need a president today who will stop the crime and recklessness in the streets. We need a president who will restore law and order: We need Donald Trump. We need a president who will lower our taxes and not raise our taxes: We need a president like Donald Trump.
We need a president who understands the American people are sick and tired of being sick and tired: We need [Donald Trump]. We need a president our foreign adversaries are afraid of and our allies respect: We need [Donald Trump]. You see, we need a president who doesn’t see black or white. We see a president who sees Americans as one American family: We need [Donald Trump]. And that’s why I came to the very warm state of New Hampshire to endorse the next president of these United States: President Donald Trump.
Trump called Tim Scott a “very, very good man and a very respected man” following the endorsement and thanked him for his trip from Washington, DC, to the Granite State.
“Having his endorsement means a lot. We have tremendous…