Palin puts weight behind Scott
By Edward Fennell
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed First District congressional candidate Tim Scott on Saturday.
Scott faces fellow Republican Paul Thurmond on Tuesday in the GOP run-off election.
The endorsement was apparently first announced on Facebook. Palin wrote that Scott is a "pro-life, pro-2nd Amendment, pro-development, commonsense conservative who's been endorsed by the Club for Growth because of his solid commitment to the principles of limited government and fiscal responsibility."
Palin's Facebook page includes a link to Scott's page.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announced Thursday that he's endorsing Scott, and Thurmond recently picked up endorsements from Carroll Campbell III and Larry Kobrovsky -- two of the nine candidates who ran for the GOP nomination in the primary.
Scott finished with a roughly 2-1 edge over Thurmond in the June 8 vote.
Thurmond is the son of the one-time segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, and Scott would be South Carolina's first black Republican congressman since Reconstruction. Thurmond and Scott served together on Charleston County Council.
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