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Jan 28, 2024 · ABC News’ Martha Raddatz interviews Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on “This Week.”–––Subscribe to ABC News on YouTube: https://abcnews.visitlink.me/59aJ1GWatch 24/7...
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May 19, 2023 · 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.
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May 22, 2023 · Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, who announced his presidential campaign on Monday, is the first Black Republican senator from the South in more than a century and has been one of his...
Timothy Eugene Scott (born September 19, 1965) is an American businessman and politician serving as the junior United States senator from South Carolina since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the Charleston County Council, a state representative, and a U.S. Representative.
- He is the only Black Republican in the United States Senate.
- He is the only Black person to ever serve in both chambers of Congress.
- He is one of only 11 Black people in the history of the country to be in the Senate and one of just three (along with Democrats Cory Booker and Raphael Warnock) currently in the Senate.
- “America is not a racist country,” he has said.
votetimscott .com. The 2024 presidential campaign of Tim Scott launched on May 22, 2023, when Tim Scott, a United States Senator from South Carolina, announced that he would seek election to the presidency in 2024. His entry into the 2024 Republican Party presidential primaries followed his successful U.S. Senate reelection bid in 2022.
Apr 23, 2021 · For Scott, the only Black Republican in the Senate, it’s the story of his grandfather, Artis Ware, who left school at an early age to pick cotton and, according to Scott, never learned to read ...
