{"id":412,"date":"2023-04-12T11:26:30","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2023-04-12T11:26:31","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T17:26:31","slug":"gop-sen-tim-scott-forms-presidential-exploratory-committee-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/gop-sen-tim-scott-forms-presidential-exploratory-committee-video\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. Tim Scott Forms &#8220;Presidential Exploratory Committee&#8221; &#8211; Video"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It looks like GOP Sen. Tim Scott will be running for President. News is out that he has officially formed a &#8220;Presidential Exploratory Committee.&#8221; That almost always ends with an official announcement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional.<br><br>That&#39;s why I&#39;m announcing my exploratory committee for President of the United States.<br><br>This fight is personal.<br><br>I want every American to have the same opportunities I had. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HV56pbyKdB\">pic.twitter.com\/HV56pbyKdB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Tim Scott (@votetimscott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/votetimscott\/status\/1646109597214679043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 12, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched a presidential exploratory committee Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI will never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional. And that\u2019s why I\u2019m announcing my exploratory committee for president of the United States,\u201d Scott said in a new video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott \u2013 the only Black Republican in the Senate \u2013 has been testing the waters for months. Since setting off on a listening tour in February focused on \u201cFaith in America,\u201d he\u2019s made frequent visits to Iowa. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/11\/politics\/tim-scott-exploratory-committee-2024\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CNN<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like GOP Sen. Tim Scott will be running for President. News is out that he has officially formed a &#8220;Presidential Exploratory Committee.&#8221; That almost always ends with an official announcement. Republican Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina launched a presidential exploratory committee Wednesday morning. \u201cI will never back down in defense of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30,55,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-30","category-gop-presidential-nomination","category-tim-scott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412\/revisions\/413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}