Liam Conner
The Senate’s only black Republican aims to be the face of minority outreach in the Trump campaign and downvoting Republican candidates.
The Tim Scott-aligned Great Opportunity PAC announced Thursday that it will spend at least $14.3 million this cycle targeting Black voters in swing states. Scott, a vice presidential pick rumors for the presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump, has said he believes he can deliver black men to Trump, citing a Wall Street Journal survey in April, showing that President Biden is losing support among the crucial voting bloc.
“There is no doubt that African-American men are completely open to political or partisan change,” Scott said in a meeting with reporters on Tuesday.
Black voters have historically overwhelmingly supported Democratic presidential candidates, but Biden’s appeal appears to be softening. A March CBS News Poll showed Trump nearly doubling his support among Black voters, from 12% in 2020 to 23%.
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“If black voters do two things: some stay home and others turn right, there is no way [Democrats can] fill the hole,” Scott said.
A senior PAC official categorized the initiative as a “full campaign,” pointing to the PAC’s intentions to invest $4.8 million in earned and paid media, including digital advertising, $9 million in voter outreach and more than half million dollars in opinion polls. legal and operational, according to the PAC memorandum. The effort will also include heightened appearances by Senator Scott in minority neighborhoods in swing states.
The announcement comes days after the Trump campaign unveiled its first field office of the cycle in North Philadelphia. Trump surrogates, Reps. Byron Donalds and Wesley Hunt, headlined black voter engagement programming Tuesday across the battleground state of Pennsylvania, including speeches at an event titled “Congress, Brandy and Cigars.” The Biden-Harris campaign responded to Trump’s recent minority outreach efforts by criticizing his reliance on surrogates.
“President Biden is campaigning by appearing – himself – to win, not ask for, the support of Black Americans. This is what leadership looks like,” Sarafina Chitika, a senior spokeswoman for Biden-Harris, said in a statement to CBS News. .
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