SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Sen. Tim Scott, who grew up in working-class poverty to become South Carolina s first Black senator, and now the Senate s lone Black Republican, was set to declare his candidacy for president on Monday, coming into the 2024 race with more cash on hand than all of his competitors and a story that he says embodies the American dream.
The 57-year-old senator is holding the official announcement event inside the Buccaneer Fieldhouse on Monday morning at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University.
"We live in the land where it is possible for a kid raised in poverty by a single mother in a small apartment to one day serve in the People’s House and maybe even the White House," Scott will say, according to an excerpt of his speech.
"When I cut your taxes, they called me a prop. When I re-funded the police, they called me a token. When I pushed back on President Biden, they even called me the N-word," he is expected to
The South Carolina senator added his positive, aspirational message to a growing and fractious Republican primary field. He enters the race having raised $22 million.
SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images(WASHINGTON) Sen. Tim Scott, who grew up in working-class poverty to become South Carolina s first Black senator, and now the Senate s lone Black Republican, declared his candidacy for president on Monday, coming into the 2024 race with more cash on hand than all of his competitors and a story that he says embodies the American dream.
The 57-year-old senator held the official announcement event inside the Buccaneer Fieldhouse on Monday morning at his alma mater, Charleston Southern University, speaking enthusiastically in front of a backdrop of supporters, his name and campaign slogan, "Faith in America."
"We live in the land where it is possible for a kid raised in poverty by a single mother in a small apartment to one day serve in the People s House and maybe even the White House," Scott said, after speaking several minutes off the cuff.
"Joe Biden and the radical left are attacking every rung of the ladder that helped me
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