{"id":25828,"date":"2023-05-24T10:39:33","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T14:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=25828"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:28:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T22:28:54","slug":"politics-professor-brent-nelsen-weighs-in-on-sen-tim-scotts-run-for-presidency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/politics-professor-brent-nelsen-weighs-in-on-sen-tim-scotts-run-for-presidency\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics professor Brent Nelsen weighs in on Sen. Tim Scott&#8217;s run for presidency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mms.tveyes.com\/Transcript.asp?StationID=2730&amp;DateTime=5%2F23%2F2023+6%3A41%3A58+PM&amp;Term=Furman&amp;PlayClip=TRUE\">Fox Carolina<\/a> interviewed Brent Nelsen, professor of politics and international affairs, who was in Turkey on a MayX trip, about Sen. Tim Scott&#8217;s announcement that he will run for president in 2024. Nelsen discussed Scott&#8217;s position as a positive, optimistic candidate, in contrast to others in the race, and as the only Black Republican senator. It&#8217;s possible, Nelsen said, that Scott is adding his name to the national conversation now for a more substantial run in 2028.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brent Nelsen weighs in on Sen. Tim Scott&#8217;s bid for president. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":26601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1569,6,32],"tags":[242,2105,281,592],"class_list":["post-25828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fox-carolina","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","tag-brent-nelsen","tag-fox-carolina","tag-furman-in-the-news","tag-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25828","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\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41102,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25828\/revisions\/41102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}