Sen. Tim Scott makes it official: He's a Republican candidate for president
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Source: AP
COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: Hes running for president.
Scott, the Senates only Black Republican, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his intention to seek his partys nomination in 2024. His candidacy will test whether a more optimistic vision of Americas future can resonate with GOP voters who have elevated partisan brawlers in recent years.
The deeply religious 57-year-old former insurance broker has made his grandfathers work in the cotton fields of the Deep South a bedrock of his political identity. Yet he 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.
Scott, who last month formed an exploratory committee allowing him to raise and spend money while weighing a White House campaign, has scheduled a formal announcement on Monday at Charleston Southern University, a private Baptist college and Scotts alma mater, in his hometown of North Charleston.
Read more: https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-2024-presidential-campaign-152d2ee680c9a98e7fd0a2a1cf328e3c
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The Senates only Black Republican has made his grandfathers 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 Scotts 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.
Casady1
(2,133 posts)will split 2%
peppertree
(23,343 posts)They walk around with the insane delusion that people actually like them.
ffr
(23,398 posts)Did your parents not bring you up properly? Did you not get enough nourishment growing up? Did you live next to a toxic waste site the impeded brain development? Or are you just a narcissistic asshole!?
Ocelot II
(130,533 posts)So is Nikki Haley. They are hoping to hitch their wagon to the campaign of TFG or DeSatan, whichever version of the Antichrist comes out on top, so watch them try to walk a tightrope, trying not to offend either of them.
RevBrotherThomas
(856 posts)hibbing
(10,597 posts)bucolic_frolic
(55,139 posts)Reality-challenged candidate don't go far, but they're serving somebody's agenda
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)They had so many candidates they split the vote, and he won the nomination
Yavin4
(37,182 posts)Trump won pluralities of the votes in the 2016 primaries but he took home all of the delegates.
JohnSJ
(98,883 posts)ended up having the most votes
Sneederbunk
(17,491 posts)marble falls
(71,926 posts)LakeArenal
(29,949 posts)Marius25
(3,213 posts)will totally support Tim Scott...
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(179,868 posts)Scott running will only help TFG by dividing the vote