Sen. Steve Daines (R-Mont.), chair of the Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, said he’ll back Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential bid. The senator told Trump’s son that the “best four years” he had in the Senate were those during the Trump administration.
Because he’s chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Daines has a powerful sway over Senate Republicans, making his endorsement a key victory for the former president’s efforts to return to the White House. Daines is, so far, the only member of Senate GOP leadership who has endorsed Trump.
“He talked about results,” Daines said. “We passed and signed into law the greatest tax cut in American history, we transformed the courts … We had a country that was respected.”“That’s absolutely awesome,” Trump Jr. replied. Trump Jr. had earlier described Daines as a “very good friend” whom he met through a hunting camp. Daines’sto people close to Trump, including Trump Jr., has lent him credibility with the former president’s base, which boosted his reelection effort in 2020, when he defeated Democrat Steve Bullock, who was Montana’s governor.
The former president’s allies have called Daines’s endorsement one of the most consequential to date, with one suggesting that it signals openness to Trump among the party’s largest donors who fund the NRSC — and whom Daines would not risk alienating.After high-flying start, DeSantis hits stumbling blocks on road to 2024
Trump is running against former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley and business executive Vivek Ramaswamy — though Sen. Tim Scott announced an exploratory committee ahead of an expected presidential run and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former vice president Mike Pence are expected to enter the 2024 race.
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