The former presidential candidate is promising a monumental shift in voting behavior — and some are skeptical he can deliver.
Sen. Tim Scott’s own presidential bid was unable to make significant inroads with the voting blocs he is attempting to deliver to Trump in the fall. | Chris Carlson/AP launched an initiative Thursday with an ambitious goal of expanding the GOP coalition among voters of color. A move that comes as Scott, whose name has been floated for vice president, and other Republicans are touting those voters’ new openness to the GOP.
“I think there’s been seed in the soil that’s been germinating,” Scott said of voters who have not backed Republicans in generations. “Now the question is, are there laborers available to take advantage of the harvest?”. The Scott-aligned super PAC doesn’t plan to build out an outreach apparatus along the lines of a traditional campaign, like field offices or hiring an expansive staff — it is instead promising a combination of voter contact programs, survey and data analytics and paid media.
But Scott and his allies think it can work. They are pitching the North Charleston native as a uniquely qualified conduit for wooing Black men and other racial minorities. Organizers with the PAC say they have about $7 million cash on hand for the initiative, but plan to double that heading into the fall.
When asked by POLITICO about how Trump’s felony conviction by a Manhattan jury in a criminal hush money case involving falsifying records of payments to a porn star may affect his outreach efforts to Black communities, he railed against how the trial was conducted.
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