Granderson: Tim Scott is the candidate Republicans would want, except they've never heard of him (via latimesopinion )
Now that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has announced he’s running for president, it looks as if the 2024 general election is going to be one of those big-budget sequels nobody asked for.
Scott is giving Republicans a chance to return to the decency of Gerald Ford and the aspiration of Ronald Reagan. Maybe Scott’s decency and reasonable positions explain why he has about a quarter as much campaign money as DeSantis has. Or maybe Scott, the first Black person from the South to be elected to the Senate since Reconstruction, just needs more time to build his campaign. Although he’s been in Congress since 2013, his more brash, antagonistic colleagues such as Sen. Ted Cruz have gotten significantly more airtime.
Some politicos have suggested Scott isn’t really trying to win the GOP nomination as much as position himself as a viable running mate to whoever does. It’s a depressing thought, because that would mean at the end of the primary season, Scott would just be joining Trumpism anyway. So what would have been the point of all his talk about optimism?
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