Sen. Tim Scott is formally operating for president in 2024.
The South Carolina Republican made the announcement Monday to a crowd at his alma mater, Charleston Southern College. In his speech, the senator shared his private story and the way he was raised by a single mom. He talked in regards to the challenges he and his household overcame, and the alternatives America has supplied him.
Scott additionally expressed concern in regards to the methods the political Left has affected the nation by way of woke schooling in our faculties and about insurance policies which have allowed tens of millions of unlawful aliens to cross America’s southern border.
“[President] Joe Biden and the novel Left are attacking each rung of the ladder that helped me climb,” the second-term senator stated. “And that’s the reason I’m asserting at the moment that I’m operating for president of the US of America.”
Scott informed the gang of about 2,000 folks that as president, he would bolster America’s army and safe America’s southern border.
The South Carolina senator additionally pledged he would deliver extra manufacturing again to America.
“I would be the president who ramps up analysis and improvement, reclaims provide chains, and re-energizes our manufacturing base with Alternative Zones 2.0 and a whole ‘Made In America’ agenda,” Scott stated.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a fellow Republican, is predicted to announce his candidacy for president later this week. Former President Donald Trump is already a number of months into his 2024 presidential marketing campaign. Trump weighed in on Scott’s announcement on his social media platform Fact Social Monday, taking the chance to criticize DeSantis.
“Good luck to Senator Tim Scott in getting into the Republican Presidential Main Race,” Trump wrote. “It’s quickly loading up with a number of folks, and Tim is a giant step up from Ron DeSanctimonious, who is completely unelectable.”
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, and conservative entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are additionally operating for the GOP nomination.
Thus far, simply two Democrats have introduced they’ll compete for his or her occasion’s nomination towards Biden in 2024: writer and social justice activist Marianne Williamson and Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the nephew of President John F. Kennedy.
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