Watch as Tim Scott announces bid for 2024 Republican presidential nomination
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Your support makes all the difference.Senator Tim Scott announced his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nominations during a rally in South Carolina on 22 May 2023.
Mr Scott is the only Black Republican member of the upper chamber and has officially declared himself a candidate for president in next year’s Republican primary election on Friday 19 May 2023, when he designated his official campaign committee as “Tim Scott for America”, with a campaign address in the Palmetto State’s capital, Charleston.
Mr Scott, who has served as South Carolina’s junior senator since 2013, was first appointed to his Senate seat by one of his presidential primary opponents, then-South Carolina governor Nikki Haley.
Considered by many as a rising star in the Republican Party, Tim Scott was given the honour of delivering the party’s response to president Joe Biden’s inaugural address to Congress in 2021.
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