{"id":25026,"date":"2023-04-24T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-24T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25026"},"modified":"2023-04-24T11:12:01","modified_gmt":"2023-04-24T15:12:01","slug":"furmans-david-fleming-goes-on-record-about-gop-candidates-for-the-2024-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-david-fleming-goes-on-record-about-gop-candidates-for-the-2024-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman&#8217;s David Fleming goes on record about GOP candidates for 2024 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s David Fleming, an associate professor of politics and international affairs, goes on record in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/04\/18\/nikki-haley-tim-scott-could-be-formidable-if-they-get-a-boost-in-sc-donald-trump-white-house\/70109077007\/\">The Greenville News<\/a> about the growing field of potential Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on candidate Nikki Haley and Tim Scott, who hasn&#8217;t made his bid official, Fleming said, &#8220;They both have challenges, primarily with the popularity of Trump among Republicans \u2013 particularly in South Carolina. They&#8217;ll start behind a little, but there is a lot of time before voters start voting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fleming noted that GOP candidates will tread lightly and take care not to attack each other while they jockey for the second spot on the ticket.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If it is Trump (who wins the nomination), I don&#8217;t think he would likely take kindly on attacks from opponents,&#8221; Fleming said. &#8220;Both Haley and Scott have been careful about their critiques, but that could change.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fleming is a senior researcher at The Riley Institute at Furman University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fleming speaks to The Greenville News about a widening field of potential Republican candidates for the 2024 presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":25032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,118,6,32,29],"tags":[1874,1853,536],"class_list":["post-25026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-greenville-news","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-riley-institute","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-gop","tag-republican-party"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25026\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}