A super PAC backing Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) for the Republican presidential nomination is canceling scheduled TV ads, warning voters not to be “ready for the Trump alternative,” according to a leaked memo to its donors.
“We will not waste our money when voters are not focused or ready for a Trump alternative,” Trust in the Mission (TIM PAC) co-Chairman Rob Collins stated in the memo, obtained by NBC News. “We have done a study. We have studied focus groups. We have followed Tim on the trail. These voters are locked out and the money spent on the mass media will not change their minds until we get closer to voting.”
“Starting today, we will release all of our Fall media inventory,” Collins added. “We will continue to fully fund our grassroots door knocking, channel fundraising, event hosting and earned media efforts.”
The memo was released hours after Scott’s campaign reported raising just $4.6 million between July and September of this year.
Tim Scott’s PAC will shift focus to knocking on doors, channeling fundraising and earned media. Reuters
While the campaign had $13.3 million in cash, it also spent $12.3 million in the same three-month period.
Meanwhile, TIM PAC reported in late July that it had more than $15 million in cash on hand at the end of June. Super PACs do not have to file their year-end disclosures with the Federal Election Commission until Jan. 31.
However, political campaign finance experts Rob Pyers reports on Twitter that the organization has spent nearly $14.8 million on advertising, bookmarking and get-out-the-vote efforts since it was founded in mid-May.
Trump consistently leads the GOP field by a wide margin, according to polls, with second-place challenger Ron DeSantis trailing by 45 points.Getty Images
Former President Donald Trump consistently polls ahead of all other candidates in the GOP field by wide margins. The Real Clear Politics average now has the 77-year-old Trump at 58.3% support nationwide, ahead of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis by more than 45 percentage points.
Scott is currently seventh nationally, in aggregate, polling at just 2.0%
The decision to stop TV ads came after the primary field did not narrow to a “Scott-Trump head-to-head battle” ahead of the Jan. 15 Iowa caucuses, the memo read.
Scott spoke during the New Hampshire Republican Party’s First National Leadership Summit.AP
“At least two-thirds of Iowa caucus goers will make up their minds in the six weeks leading up to Caucus Day,” Collins claimed. “Spending big on television between now and then would be a waste of money.”
Scott’s campaign insisted Monday it is ready “to take our message to early states and beyond.”
“From Day One, Tim’s campaign has been built for the long haul — powered by the most cash on hand and the highest candidate preference of anyone in the field,” a representative told The Post in a statement. “On issues from foreign policy to abortion, he has been the clearest and loudest voice, leading while others have followed. We are ready, as always, to take our message to the early states and beyond.”
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