Scott's polling is down, his super PAC is in retreat and his hometown newspaper is cheering on Nikki Haley instead.
Scott’s polling is down, his super PAC is in retreat and his hometown newspaper is cheering on Nikki Haley instead.
In a strategy shift, Scott over the past two weeks has done just that, appearing eight times on CNN, CBS, ABC and CNBC after spending a summer engaging almost exclusively with the conservative press.After months of staying out of the conversation, the South Carolina senator is now sputtering below 2 percent in national polls. On Saturday, Scott’s hometown newspapernot around Scott, but rival South Carolinian Nikki Haley, to take on Donald Trump directly.
Scott has yet to qualify for the third Republican debate, though he appears on track to do so. A person with knowledge of Scott’s campaign’s operations told POLITICO that the Republican National Committee has confirmed to the campaign thatA spokesperson for the RNC did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Scott still must cross the committee’s 70,000-donor threshold before the Nov. 6 deadline.
That lack of oxygen in the primary has been a major problem for all of Trump’s rivals. But Scott’s campaign appeared to do less than others to force him into the conversation. At one point, from mid-July to early August, Scott went three weeks without a single national television hit, while making a handful of appearances on local radio, TV and podcasts.
His aligned super PAC, meanwhile, has pledged to boost Scott’s current grassroots efforts in the wake of its recent ad cancellations. In a statement to POLITICO, Gardner, who co-chairs the super PAC, reiterated the message he had reportedly delivered to Scott and others in private conversations: He needs to be out there more.
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