Tim Scott for President? Rep. Tom Rice says he’d be a ‘good’ choice.
While discussing national politics at a town hall event Wednesday, one constituent asked Rep. Tom Rice who he would endorse?
“For Congress I like Tom Rice,” Rice, R-Myrtle Beach, joked about his current bid for re-election.
But the man asking meant for president in 2024.
“You know, there’s a lot of good people out there that I think would have a good run and among those, I shouldn’t say this ... is Tim Scott.”
Scott, South Carolina’s junior senator, has been floated by pundits and other Republicans as a possible contender for the Republican nomination in 2024, should former President Donald Trump not run again.
Rice’s tempered endorsement on Wednesday showed that Republicans like himself are already thinking ahead to 2024. Some top GOP figures have said they believe Trump will indeed seek a second term in 2024.
Scott has so far sidestepped the question of whether or not he’ll run for president. He told The Sun News in October that he was focused on his re-election campaign this year.
Scott, however, has hinted he’d be willing to run as Trump’s vice president.
“I think everybody wants to be on President Trump’s bandwagon, without any question,” Scott said during an interview on Fox News over the weekend.
Rice on Wednesday said even though he supported Scott, he wasn’t endorsing Scott for president outright.
“I think he would be good,” Rice said. “There’s others I think would be good too, but he’s one of those ones.”
This story was originally published February 24, 2022 at 5:00 AM.
