Tim Scott units May 22 announcement for 2024 presidential bid

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina is sort of able to reveal his resolution on coming into the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, saying Sunday that he would make an announcement on May 22.

Scott didn’t definitively say that he’ll be saying his official marketing campaign, however he informed these gathered at a downtown Charleston college throughout a city corridor that he could be popping out along with his resolution at an occasion in about three weeks.

Scott, 57, has been inching ever nearer to formally coming into the GOP nomination race, the place he would be a part of different introduced candidates, together with former President Donald Trump, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson and “anti-woke” biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.

Another of these is Nikki Haley, the previous U.N. ambassador and former South Carolina governor who appointed Scott in 2012 to the Senate, the place he’s the only real Black Republican. Haley hasn’t commented on Scott’s potential entry into the race, whereas Scott has dismissed solutions of any awkwardness in working in opposition to the previous governor who appointed him to his Senate seat.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former Vice President Mike Pence are amongst these contemplating launching their very own presidential campaigns within the coming months.

Last month, Scott created an exploratory committee, a mechanism that allowed him to boost cash for polling and journey associated to creating a dedication on the race. In a video saying that effort, Scott positioned himself because the antidote to the “radical left,” with a self-made success story because the son of a single mom who overcame poverty, and bemoaned Democratic leaders as needlessly dividing the nation by fostering a “culture of grievance.”

“When I fought back against their liberal agenda, they called me a prop. A token. Because I disrupt their narrative,” he mentioned within the video, which was shot on the positioning of Fort Sumter in his hometown of Charleston, the place the Civil War’s first pictures have been fired. “I threaten their control.”

In February – a day after Haley’s official marketing campaign launch – Scott kicked off a listening tour that has taken him to different early voting states, together with Iowa and New Hampshire, the place he’s held occasions starting from political conferences with evangelical pastors to city halls and speeches. In his time on the path, Scott has tried to current a extra constructive imaginative and prescient for the long run than a lot of his potential rivals for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination.

Scott informed The Associated Press in Iowa that voters he has spoken with reply favorably to his optimistic outlook for the nation and his conservative beliefs.

“I think my candidacy is really designed around what the American people want to talk about, what their priorities are and what their issues are,” Scott informed AP.

If Scott enters the race, he would have simply over one month to boost cash earlier than the tip of the second quarter, with extra candidates within the GOP area intensifying the competitors for donor {dollars}.

But Scott has already confirmed that he can appeal to important cash. A professional-Scott tremendous PAC, Opportunity Matters Fund, spent greater than $20 million to assist Republicans in 2022 and reported $13 million-plus available to begin 2023. Tech billionaire Larry Ellison has donated no less than $30 million to the group since 2021, based on federal filings.