Late. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the new chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, says President-elect Trump is on board to assist the senator in his mission to protect and expand the newly won GOP majority in the Senate.

Scott, who was last week elected by his Republican colleagues to chair the Senate GOP Campaign Committee, met with the former and future president at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida.

“Just had a great meeting with President @realDonaldTrump! He’s all about helping the @NRSC maintain a Republican majority for his entire 4 years AND creating a generation of opportunity!” Scott wrote in a social media post Thursday night.

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After losing Senate majority in the 2020 election, the GOP flipped four Democrat-held seats earlier this month, and will control the House 53-47 when the next Congress convenes early in the new year.

In his first interview since being elected NRSC chairman, Scott told Fox News Digital last week that “what we’re going to do is defend the seats that we have and expand the map so that we can increase the majority that we got from Trump’s victory.”

IN this month’s election, unlike in 2016 and 2020, Trump outperformed many of the GOP Senate candidates.

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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump listens as Sen. Tim Scott, RS.C., speaks at a primary election party at the South Carolina State Fairgrounds in Columbia, SC, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Scott told Fox News Digital that he wants Trump to participate as much as he can in the 2026 Senate races.

“Every day and every way, President Trump, I know you have a full-time job. I’m going to ask you to have two full-time jobs. Let’s expand this map,” Scott stressed.

He said “that means every day we need President Trump on the campaign trail, doing fundraisers, talking to people, because this is President Donald J. Trump’s party, and we have to make sure we expand that, man to man movement. We need him to do that.”

Scott ran unsuccessfully last year for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, before ending his bid and endorsing Trump. The senator was a high-profile surrogate for Trump on the campaign trail this year.

Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump looks to GOP Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina during a Fox News Channel town hall, Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024, in Greenville, SC (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

While not as favorable as the 2024 Senate map, the 2026 electoral landscape gives Republicans some opportunities to flip seats.

Democratic Sens. Jon Ossoff of Georgia and Gary Peters of Michigan are up for re-election in two years in key battleground states that Trump flipped last week.

And Sen. Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire will be up for re-election in a perennial swing state that Trump lost but outperformed from his 2020 showing. In Virginia, where Trump lost by just five points last week, Democratic Sen. Mark Warner will be up for re-election.

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“How to expand the map?” Scott asked. “You look at Georgia and Michigan and New Hampshire and Virginia. And if you’re stretching — take a look at New Mexico and Minnesota. President Trump was very competitive in those states.”

But Republicans must also play defense. GOP Sen. Susan Collins of Maine is up for re-election in a reliably blue state. And Sen. Thom Tills of North Carolina is also up in 2026, in a battleground that Trump narrowly won.

Scott emphasized that “the good news is that as long as Susan Collins is running, I think we have a chance to win. Last time she won by several points. This time she will win by several points. Thom Tillis stays in North Carolina is good for our party.”

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During the 2022 election cycle, when Republicans blew a chance to win back the majority, NRSC chairman Sen. Rick Scott of Florida was criticized for a hands-off approach in the GOP Senate primary.

This past cycle, now-former NRSC Chair Sen. Steve Daines of Montana got involved in Senate Republican nomination battles.

Late. Steve Daines of Montana, chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, speaks Sept. 5, 2024, in Las Vegas, Nevada, at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership meeting. (Fox News – Paul Steinhauser)

When asked if the NRSC will take sides in competitive Republican Senate primaries during his term over the next two years, Scott told Fox News, “I think the best thing for us to do is have a family conversation next year about what we’re looking at. How we’re going to defend that map and then make the best decisions we can in terms of making sure we end up with more seats than we currently have.”

“Thank God we’re 53. I’d like to see 55,” Scott added.

When asked if it was his goal to hold 55 seats, Scott joked, “if it were up to me, we’d have 100 seats.”

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Late. Kirsten Gillibrand, who easily won re-election earlier this month in the blue state of New York, is expected to take over as chair of the rival Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. Senate Democrats will hold their leadership election later this year.

David Bergstein, DSCC’s director of communications for recent election cycles, told Fox News that “in a challenging political environment, Democrats made history. We won several races in states won by Trump. We dramatically outperformed the presidential results. And for the first time in over a decade, Senate Democrats have won several races in states won by the opposing party’s presidential candidate.”

“The outcome of this cycle puts Senate Democrats in the strongest possible position to regain the majority in 2026,” Bergstein said.