{"id":1914024,"date":"2023-04-13T03:27:42","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T07:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tim-scott-launches-2024-presidential-exploratory-committee\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T03:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T07:28:52","slug":"sen-tim-scott-launches-2024-presidential-exploratory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-tim-scott-launches-2024-presidential-exploratory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Tim Scott Launches 2024 Presidential Exploratory Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsen-tim-scott-launches-2024-presidential-exploratory-committee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1914024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div id=\"RegularArticle-ArticleBody-5\" data-module=\"ArticleBody\" data-test=\"articleBody-2\" data-analytics=\"RegularArticle-articleBody-5-2\">\n<div id=\"ArticleBody-InlineImage-107213589\" data-test=\"InlineImage\">\n<p><span><\/p>\n<div data-test=\"InlineImage-pictureContainer\" tabindex=\"-1\"><picture data-test=\"Picture\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 1340px)\" width=\"740\" height=\"416\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 1020px)\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 760px)\" width=\"929\" height=\"523\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source  media=\"(min-width: 0px)\" width=\"717\" height=\"403\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/picture><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>A 2024 presidential campaign exploratory committee has been launched by South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott (R), taking a major step toward a Republican primary arena dominated by former President Donald Trump thus far.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is personal to me,&#8221; said Scott, 57, in a video announcing the committee. &#8220;I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional. And that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m announcing my exploratory committee for president of the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s presidential aspirations put him on a collision course with Nikki Haley, a previous South Carolina Governor and United Nations ambassador for the Republicans who launched her own presidential campaign in February.<\/p>\n<p>Both may have a difficult time defeating Trump, the party&#8217;s de facto leader, and dislodging the presumed candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida as the GOP voters&#8217; preferred alternative to Trump. In early Republican primary polling, Trump has reigned supreme, while DeSantis has usually held the second spot.<\/p>\n<p>Scott made history by becoming the first Black senator elected in the US; since the period of American history known as the Reconstruction Era following the Civil War, he&#8217;s the first to do so in the southern United States. He is currently the only Black Republican in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p>In a video declaring his candidacy on Wednesday morning, Scott criticised President Joe Biden and the left for attempting to use race as a weapon to divide Americans. Due to the fact that &#8220;I disrupt their narrative,&#8221; he accused his political enemies of labeling him a &#8220;prop&#8221; and a &#8220;token.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s committee observed that his video was shot near Fort Sumter, where the Civil War&#8217;s first significant conflict occurred in South Carolina, on the day marking the start of the Civil War.<\/p>\n<p>The senator, who has been touring key primary states, is planning another swing this week through Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, his committee revealed.<\/p>\n<p>Scott&#8217;s plans to run for president were well-publicized. In a fundraising email from March, Scott even jokingly teased, &#8220;I wanted you to hear this from me first, Friend. I&#8217;ve made a decision\u2026 To go to church!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>This is a breaking news story. Further updates will follow.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) speaks at the Vision \u201924 National Conservative Forum March 18, 2023 in Charleston, South Carolina.Win McNamee | Getty ImagesSen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched an exploratory committee for a 2024 presidential campaign on Wednesday, taking a major step toward a Republican primary arena that former President Donald Trump has dominated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1914025,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[4506,4384,24160,5989,3849,8063,7025,8301],"class_list":["post-1914024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-4506","tag-committee","tag-exploratory","tag-launches","tag-presidential","tag-scott","tag-sen","tag-tim"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1914024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1914025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}