Nikki Haley will announce at noon that Tim Scott will replace South Carolina's outgoing GOP Sen. Jim DeMint, according to the New York Times. DeMint is leaving to become president of the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. Ref. USAToday
In latest job, Jim DeMint wants to give Tea Party 'a new mission'. Former South Carolina senator Jim DeMint, a prominent figure among the Tea Party activists who helped Republicans seize control of the U.S. House of Representatives in 2010, will serve as a senior adviser to the Convention of the States Project, providing a jolt to its efforts to marshal grass-roots support for a state-led movement to amend the U.S. Constitution. DeMint was recently ousted from the Heritage Foundation. Ref. USAToday.