There's not a lot of Republicans who I think would dislike his pitch He is the lone black Republican in the Senate. People love cross-cutting figures, right? If you're a Democrat and you have somebody who's a candidate from a demographic that typically leans Democratic then there's something there where people like to donate or listen to that person. The polls aren't so great for your guy right now one They're like there's a long time until people actually vote but two they pivot back to the 2016 campaign pointing out that Scott Walker was gonna knock Jeb Bush off of his ascendancy to the GOP nomination.
The FiveThirtyEight Politics podcast gets ready for a big week in politics. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott officially kicked off his presidential campaign in North Charleston Monday morning. We also expect the long-teased Ron DeSantis presidential campaign to become a reality this week. And, according to the Treasury Department we are just a week or so away from a possible default on the nation’s debt. National politics reporter at the AP Meg Kinnard and Data Columnist at the Washington Post join the crew to weigh in.
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