Elections

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott files for 2024 presidential run

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2 years ago

May 19, 2023

Republican Sen. of South Carolina, Tim Scott, has leaped into the 2024 presidential race joining President Donald J Trump in a fight to seek nomination for the Republican primary.

Scott is the only black republican in the Senate and launched a $6 million ad campaign in states that are key to winning the presidency. This comes before his next scheduled ad campaign which will be announced May 22nd, according to reports from Fox News.

Moreover, Scott joins another South Carolinian, former Governor Nikki Haley, in the race for the GOP nomination. Haley announced her candidacy in February of this year. In addition to Haley being the former governor of South Carolina she is also the former Ambassador to the United Nations during the Trump administration.

After winning back his senate seat last year in a 25-point re-election victory, Scott was left with $22 million cash from his re-election fundraising. He is entering the race in a comfortable position and reports from The Washington Times are even saying that he poses a potential threat to Trump.

Polls have not been updated since Scott has filed to run but as of the last polls released, Trump was sitting at a powerful 71% approval rating with DeSantis in second at a measly 18%.

“I think the most important thing is the mission that we have,” Scott said in an interview with Fox News. “The mission we have is making sure that we restore hope and create opportunities for working class Americans. We’re going to have a Faith in America tour so that we can listen to the American people.”

Scott added, “I look forward to continuing to hear across the country what the priorities of the American people are.” He believes that with the United States of America in such a contentious and divided period of its democracy, the message to bring the country back together needs to be “optimistic and positive.”

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Elections

Canada Beefs up Border Security After Trump Threatened Sweeping Tariffs

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2 days ago

December 3, 2024

Sara Carter Staff

In November, president-elect Donald Trump announced on social media that he would impose a 25% tariff on all products from Canada and Mexico if they do not take an active role in containing illegal immigration as well as the level of illicit drugs entering into the United States.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Trump at his residence in Mar-a-Lago, after which the Canadian government vowed to secure the border. “We got, I think, a mutual understanding of what they’re concerned about in terms of border security,” Minister of Public Safety Dominic LeBlanc, who accompanied Trudeau at Mar-a-Largo, said of the meeting in an interview with Canadian media. “All of their concerns are shared by Canadians and by the government of Canada.”

“We talked about the security posture currently at the border that we believe to be effective, and we also discussed additional measures and visible measures that we’re going to put in place over the coming weeks,” LeBlanc continued. “And we also established, Rosemary, a personal series of rapport that I think will continue to allow us to make that case.”

The Daily Caller News Foundation reports the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is preparing to beef up its immigration enforcement capabilities by hiring more staff, adding more vehicles and creating more processing facilities, in the chance that there is an immigration surge sparked by Trump’s presidential election victory. The moves are a change in direction from Trudeau’s public declaration in January 2017 that Canada was a “welcoming” country and that “diversity is our strength” just days after Trump was sworn into office the first time.

The Daily Caller notes the differences in response from the Canadian government verses Mexico’s:

Trudeau’s recent overtures largely differ from Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, who has indicated she is not willing to bend the knee to Trump’s tariff threats. The Mexican leader in November said “there will be a response in kind” to any tariff levied on Mexican goods going into the U.S., and she appeared to deny the president-elect’s claims that she agreed to do more to beef up border security in a recent phone call.