South Carolina Senator Tim Scott is running for President.
After fueling the fires of speculation with an “exploratory committee” last month, Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) has officially entered the race for President of the United States.
From AP News:
The Senate’s only Black Republican has made his grandfather’s work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity. Yet Scott rejects the notion that racism remains a powerful force in society, and he has cast his candidacy and rise from generational poverty as the realization of a dream only possible in America.
He is scheduled to make a formal announcement on Monday at Charleston Southern University, a private Baptist college and Scott’s alma mater, in his hometown of North Charleston.
Scott already has scheduled TV ads to begin airing in the early voting states Iowa and New Hampshire early next week, the most significant advertising expenditure by a potential or declared candidate in the early stages of the 2024 nominating campaign.
“I see a future where common sense has rebuilt common ground, where we’ve created real unity, not by compromising away our conservatism, but by winning converts to our conservatism,” Scott said during a trip to Iowa in February.
Scott took shots at Biden during the same trip.
“If you wanted a blueprint to ruin America, you’d keep doing exactly what Joe Biden has let the far left do to our country for the past two years,” he said. “Tell every white kid they’re oppressors. Tell Black and brown kids their destiny is grievance, not greatness.”
Scott shared a message on social, seemingly foreshadowing Friday’s announcement.
“American families are starving for hope. We need to have faith. Faith in God, faith in each other, and faith in America.”
American families are starving for hope.
We need to have faith.
Faith in God, faith in each other, and faith in America. pic.twitter.com/59Bha0JpEk
— Tim Scott (@votetimscott) May 18, 2023
More over at AP News:
BREAKING: Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina filed paperwork to enter the 2024 Republican presidential race, testing whether a more optimistic vision of America’s future can resonate with GOP voters who have elevated partisan brawlers in recent years. https://t.co/PBYsH2Evzm
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 19, 2023
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