{"id":20205,"date":"2026-03-18T18:46:37","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tim-scott-to-run-for-reelection-to-the-senate\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T18:46:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T18:46:37","slug":"tim-scott-to-run-for-reelection-to-the-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/tim-scott-to-run-for-reelection-to-the-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Scott to run for reelection to the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will run for reelection in 2028, his campaign told Blue Light News on Wednesday, reversing a promise to serve just two full terms in the chamber.<\/p>\n

Appointed by then-Gov. Nikki Haley to serve out the last two years of outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint\u2019s<\/a> Senate term in 2012, Scott had long said that 2022 would mark his final bid for the Senate<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He easily won reelection that year, besting Democratic state lawmaker Krystle Matthews by more than 25 percentage points. Scott then ran for president but abandoned his short-lived bid<\/a> for the White House before the Iowa caucuses.<\/p>\n

He was briefly considered to serve as now-President Donald Trump\u2019s running mate and has since emerged as a key White House ally in the Senate.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I\u2019ll say without any question that as I think about my own reelection in 2028, I think about all the lessons I\u2019ve learned on the campaign trail for all these other candidates, and frankly, even in South Carolina,\u201d Scott told the Charleston, South Carolina-based Post and Courier<\/a>, which was first to report his reelection plans.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) will run for reelection in 2028, his campaign told Blue Light News on Wednesday, reversing a promise to serve just two full terms in the chamber. Appointed by then-Gov. Nikki Haley to serve out the last two years of outgoing Sen. Jim DeMint\u2019s Senate term in 2012, Scott had long said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}