Tim Scott insists voters don't care about Trump's defamation loss, plays down 'provocative' Haley attacks

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

67% : "Myself and all the voters that support Donald Trump supports a return to normalcy as it relates to what affects their kitchen table," Scott told Raddatz.
63% : In response, Trump said on the trail that he feels like his mind is "stronger now than it was 25 years ago.
48% : "It is now more clear that what Republicans, conservatives and a lot of independents want today is four more years of Donald Trump.
44% : The Republican senator endorsed Trump earlier this month after ending his own 2024 campaign.
40% : They were better off under Trump," Scott said.
38% : "In addition to various lawsuits, Trump is charged in four separate criminal cases.
30% : "Scott's endorsement of Trump was seen as something of a snub to Trump's 2024 rival Nikki Haley, who appointed Scott to the U.S. Senate in 2012 when she was governor of South Carolina.
29% : Trump continues to deny Carroll's account but, after a jury trial last year, he was found liable for sexually abusing her in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s.
27% : "Still, Scott repeatedly dodged Raddatz after she pressed him on how Trump will win over independent voters in the general election despite the exit polls showing most of them backed Haley in New Hampshire.
23% : Despite what Scott said, past polling has found Americans believe some of the accusations against Trump are serious: 63% said last year in an ABC News/Ipsos survey that the charges he faces in a Georgia election subversion indictment were serious or somewhat serious; and 65% felt the same in another 2023 ABC News/Ipsos poll about Trump's federal indictment related to Jan. 6 and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
21% : He went on to contend that the "perception that the legal system is being weaponized against Donald Trump is actually increasing his poll numbers.
21% : Raddatz pointed to Scott diverging from Trump and some other conservatives.
7% : Although Trump easily beat Haley in the first two contests for the Republican presidential nomination, in Iowa and New Hampshire, exit polls indicated he had some issues with independent and college-educated voters and Haley has vowed to stay in the race as the last major opponent to Trump.
3% : And he went on to attack Haley for her criticism of Trump's mental competency rather than defend Trump for calling Haley a "bird brain" and falsely claiming she can't be president because her parents were not yet American citizens when she was born in South Carolina.

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