White House 'growing incensed' with Tim Scott’s 'rank incompetence' as head of NRSC

Republican leaders don't believe that Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) cares all that much about his role as the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) chair.

Reporting on Thursday, NOTUS said that the executive director Jennifer DeCasper is under fire by Republican "aides, strategists and other sources" after a series of incidents, including celebrating Scott's birthday and bringing her small dog to the office.

The report began with DeCasper, who is also Black, loading staff onto a bus to meet Scott at the airport in Washington to wish him a happy birthday when he landed. She filmed it and then used the staff to cut the video and post it on her personal social media.

Another story that illustrates to Republicans that DeCasper doesn't take her job seriously is a story that "on at least one occasion," she allowed her small dog to "walk around on the conference table during a meeting." The report said that those present were "taken aback."

"Both senators and the White House are growing more incensed with the campaign arm by the day," the report said, citing NOTUS sources.

The consistency in the complaints is that both Scott and DeCasper are named and blamed. The two are "inseparable" complained one source. The White House, in particular, is furious that it wasn't involved in the hiring process for the NRSC.

Lawmakers are miffed that Scott didn't "make candidate-recruitment visits or fundraising calls, instead leaving those responsibilities to others on the committee," the sources told NOTUS. Scott does, however, meet with recruits when they are in Washington. They're also mad they can't seem to reach and chat with Scott and DeCasper whenever they want.

One GOP strategist called the two "the most unprofessional I have ever seen."

Scott, the first Black chairman of the NRSC, set a fundraising record, raising $88 million in an off-year. They started with just $3 million in cash on hand, according to FEC filings.

Republicans hold the majority in the Senate. There are six Republicans in the Senate who have announced their retirement. Two senators in Ohio and Florida must run for reelection after being appointed in 2025, following their predecessors' appointments to President Donald Trump's administration.

Republicans are growing paranoid about the election, particularly after Trump launched an unpopular war in Iran and is teasing that more Americans may die in the conflict.

Their other complaint is that Scott hasn't been willing to lie to donors about their chances in the Georgia Senate race, where U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D) is up for reelection. One source told NOTUS it was "the party's best pick-up opportunity." Scott thinks that Michigan is a better pickup chance than Georgia, which isn't shared with others in the GOP.

DeCasper also ran Scott's short-lived presidential campaign. Her sister is now Scott's chief of staff. Another source criticized DeCasper for wearing a hoodie while traveling with Trump and Scott aboard Air Force One.

“I have never seen so much rank incompetence, in just mind-boggling fashion,” a GOP strategist complained.

Scott's other outside advisor, Nate Brand, made the mistake of picking a fight with Trump chief of staff, Susie Wiles, with a Substack post criticizing her Vanity Fair profile.

Meanwhile, Scott is under fire after publicly attacking Trump on X for posting a video with the racist depictions of Former President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle as apes.