Analysis: Many GOP senators believe Trump is hurting their party’s chances of winning the majority, but they are not ready to endorse another candidate in the primary race.
“I think the world of Tim Scott,” Sen. John Barrasso said earlier this spring.
A few days later, 43 GOP senators voted to affirm President Biden’s 2020 election, while only eight objected. So far, just 10 Senate Republicans have endorsed the ex-president’s bid to return to the White House. “I’ve got a bunch of friends in this race — and I just jumped in the deep end of the pool with Trump because I think he deserves another shot,” Graham said.
Officially, Scott’s campaign remains happy with the endorsements that he has racked up so far, with a deeper emphasis on state and local officials who are closer to grass-roots activists who can turn out voters in primary elections. On Monday,Yet Scott hasn’t scored one endorsement among South Carolina’s six House Republicans, its other senator or Gov. Henry McMaster .
Some GOP senators see Scott as strategically trying to avoid looking like an establishment favorite. “He has not asked for endorsements,” Romney said. “He has not come to our group and said, ‘Hey, everybody help me.’”Romney acknowledges that the “endorsement primary” mattered during his 2008 and 2012 presidential bids.
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