Tim Scott drops out of presidential race: How to change the nation without the ballot box
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🗓️ 13 November 2023
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South Carolina Senator Tim Scott surprised many—including some of his campaign staff—on Sunday Night when he told Trey Gowdy with Fox News that he was dropping out of the race for president. But while the move had begun to feel like an eventuality, some have seen his lack of success as a signal that positivity doesn’t have a place in modern politics. Why is that the case? And what does it mean for our job as Christians?
Author: Ryan Denison, PhD
Narrator: Chris Elkins
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome to the Daily Article Podcast. Today is Monday, November the 13th, |
| 0:07.9 | 2023. I'm Chris Elkins with the Denison Forum, narrating today's article written by Dr. Ryan |
| 0:14.2 | Dennison. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott surprised many, including some of his campaign staff, |
| 0:20.6 | on Sunday night when he told |
| 0:22.2 | Trey Gowdy with Fox News that he was dropping out of the race for president. |
| 0:26.5 | Struggles in the polls and with generating new donors made it unlikely that the senator would |
| 0:31.2 | be able to qualify for the next Republican debate, so Sunday's news was seen by most as an eventuality. Still, Scott began the race with one of the |
| 0:39.6 | most substantial war chests in the primary and ended September with $14 million remaining, |
| 0:45.3 | a figure he recently claimed was the most money of any candidate running for president other than |
| 0:51.2 | Donald Trump. The hope was that his reserves would allow him to continue |
| 0:55.2 | after others were forced to drop out, giving him the chance to make up ground in the narrower field. |
| 1:00.9 | However, a combination of relatively poor debate performances and fellow South Carolinian |
| 1:06.5 | Nikki Haley emerging as the chief rival to both Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, |
| 1:12.2 | left Scott without a clear path to improvement. |
| 1:14.8 | So now he returns his focus to the Senate and takes his message of positivity and hope with |
| 1:19.8 | him. |
| 1:20.8 | That message has been somewhat lacking among other candidates in the election, but as one of |
| 1:25.3 | Scott's supporters lamented, such optimism is not where |
| 1:29.2 | the Republican base is right now. To be honest, though, it's not where most of the country seems to |
| 1:34.4 | be either. A recent poll showed that 63% of Americans are very or somewhat pessimistic about |
| 1:41.5 | the moral and ethical standards of our country, while only 12% said they had |
| 1:46.4 | quite a lot of confidence in the nation's future. In short, if Tim Scott's message of positivity |
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