Tim Scott, a U.S. Representative from South Carolina, is becoming the favorite to replace South Carolina Jim DeMint in the Senate. If appointed Scott, who is a Tea Party conservative, would become the first African-American Republican Senator since Reconstruction and the only black person in the Senate.
DeMint announced  his resignation from Congress Thursday morning, to take a job heading the conservative think-tank, Heritage Foundation.
Haley posted on her Facebook page today that “whomever I appoint will have the same philosophy of government that Jim DeMint and I share. With all the challenges we face as a state and nation, it is essential that the next senator from South Carolina be dedicated to the principles that our state most values.”