South Carolina Senator Tim Scott on Sunday told Fox News’s Trey Gowdy he was ending his 2024 presidential campaign, just days after he finally showed his girlfriend to the public.
Politico reports from sources that Scott didn’t even bother to tell his campaign staff before announcing on live TV that they were all out of a job. Of course they had to already know it was coming sooner or later given his awful numbers but that was still kind of shitty. CNN politics reporter Isaac-Edward Dovere did however get a hint in the form of a “Team Tim Scott” fundraising email with the subject line of “One last chance.” It was sent eight minutes before Scott publicly pulled the plug on his bid. “Usually fundraising email subject lines are a little hyperbolic,” Dovere wrote.