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BumRushDaShow

(169,756 posts)
Fri May 19, 2023, 11:53 AM May 2023

Sen. Tim Scott makes it official: He's a Republican candidate for president

Last edited Fri May 19, 2023, 04:51 PM - Edit history (1)

Source: AP

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina made it official Friday: He’s running for president.

Scott, the Senate’s only Black Republican, filed paperwork with the Federal Election Commission declaring his intention to seek his party’s nomination in 2024. His candidacy will test whether a more optimistic vision of America’s 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 grandfather’s 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 Scott’s alma mater, in his hometown of North Charleston.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/tim-scott-2024-presidential-campaign-152d2ee680c9a98e7fd0a2a1cf328e3c





Article updated.

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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina filed paperwork on Friday 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.

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.
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Sen. Tim Scott makes it official: He's a Republican candidate for president (Original Post) BumRushDaShow May 2023 OP
Nikki and Tim Casady1 May 2023 #1
Nimrata and Tiny Tim share what you might call a reverse paranoia peppertree May 2023 #22
How embarrassing must it be to wake up every morning stating that you identify as a republican? ffr May 2023 #2
He's a candidate for *vice* president. Ocelot II May 2023 #3
MTG has it locked up RevBrotherThomas May 2023 #14
Have you watched your party's convention during your lifetime? n/t hibbing May 2023 #4
Is his candidacy funded by Kash too? bucolic_frolic May 2023 #5
This is exactly what trump wants. The more the merrier. It is how he won the nomination in 2016 JohnSJ May 2023 #6
Republican primaries are winner take all Yavin4 May 2023 #20
Yes, and it was because of that, the other candidates took votes away from each other, and trump JohnSJ May 2023 #21
How can he be stopped? Sneederbunk May 2023 #7
I automatically reject any concideration of GOP candidates with Tim or Scott in their names. marble falls May 2023 #8
I can't wait. The literal shit show as they throw the worst against each other. LakeArenal May 2023 #9
I'm sure the party of Neo-Nazis whose brains broke over a black man being President Marius25 May 2023 #10
And if you don't notice THIS time he's declared... he'll announce it again tomorrow. Gidney N Cloyd May 2023 #11
TFG needs as many GOP candidates in the race as possible LetMyPeopleVote May 2023 #12
Trump sees Haley and Scott as supplicants, not threats. Marcuse May 2023 #13
He'll have a sad when Trumpy doesn't bother coming up with a nickname for him. FSogol May 2023 #15
+1 n/t ChazII May 2023 #17
who? eggplant May 2023 #16
Had to get an early seat in the clown car Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2023 #18
DOA AZLD4Candidate May 2023 #19

peppertree

(23,343 posts)
22. Nimrata and Tiny Tim share what you might call a reverse paranoia
Mon May 22, 2023, 04:46 PM
May 2023

They walk around with the insane delusion that people actually like them.

ffr

(23,398 posts)
2. How embarrassing must it be to wake up every morning stating that you identify as a republican?
Fri May 19, 2023, 11:57 AM
May 2023


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)
3. He's a candidate for *vice* president.
Fri May 19, 2023, 11:59 AM
May 2023

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.

bucolic_frolic

(55,139 posts)
5. Is his candidacy funded by Kash too?
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:06 PM
May 2023

Reality-challenged candidate don't go far, but they're serving somebody's agenda

 

JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)
6. This is exactly what trump wants. The more the merrier. It is how he won the nomination in 2016
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:16 PM
May 2023

They had so many candidates they split the vote, and he won the nomination


 

Yavin4

(37,182 posts)
20. Republican primaries are winner take all
Fri May 19, 2023, 10:42 PM
May 2023

Trump won pluralities of the votes in the 2016 primaries but he took home all of the delegates.

 

JohnSJ

(98,883 posts)
21. Yes, and it was because of that, the other candidates took votes away from each other, and trump
Fri May 19, 2023, 11:21 PM
May 2023

ended up having the most votes

 

Marius25

(3,213 posts)
10. I'm sure the party of Neo-Nazis whose brains broke over a black man being President
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:39 PM
May 2023

will totally support Tim Scott...

LetMyPeopleVote

(179,868 posts)
12. TFG needs as many GOP candidates in the race as possible
Fri May 19, 2023, 12:52 PM
May 2023

Scott running will only help TFG by dividing the vote

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