{"id":27012,"date":"2023-08-09T08:30:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-09T12:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=27012"},"modified":"2023-08-08T15:52:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T19:52:20","slug":"nelsen-comments-on-sen-scotts-rise-in-the-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/nelsen-comments-on-sen-scotts-rise-in-the-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelsen comments on Sen. Scott&#8217;s rise in the polls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article appearing in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/florida-politics\/elections\/2023\/08\/06\/desantis-tim-scott-south-carolina-trump-republican-president\/\">Tampa Bay Times,<\/a> Furman University&#8217;s Brent Nelsen comments on GOP challengers to former President Donald Trump. According to polling data from early primary state Iowa, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is Trump&#8217;s nearest competitor, but Senator Tim Scott is not far behind. In South Carolina, Nikki Haley holds second place behind Trump, with DeSantis in third and Scott in fourth, according to a recent poll.<\/p>\n<p>Nelsen said Scott&#8217;s popularity in South Carolina can be attributed to his positive nature. Yet, Scott attempts to mimic the hardline approach DeSantis takes. \u201cAt times (Scott is) trying to sound like DeSantis, like, \u2018he\u2019s really angry, too,\u2019\u201d said Nelsen, the Jane Fishburne Hipp Professor of Politics and International Affairs. \u201cBut it doesn\u2019t seem to hit very hard, because he\u2019s such a positive guy that it\u2019s hard for him to sound like the combative, lib-owning politician that a lot of people in the base want.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman&#8217;s Brent Nelsen explains why Sen. Tim Scott is closing in on Gov. Ron DeSantis&#8217; position in the race for the GOP nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":26721,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,32,2170],"tags":[2117,705,2211],"class_list":["post-27012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs","category-tampa-bay-times","tag-gop-nomination","tag-nikki-haley","tag-tim-scott"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012","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=27012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}