{"id":500,"date":"2023-05-01T07:25:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2023-05-01T07:25:09","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T13:25:09","slug":"gop-sen-tim-scott-set-to-join-presidential-race-may-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/gop-sen-tim-scott-set-to-join-presidential-race-may-22\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Sen. Tim Scott Set to Join Presidential Race May 22"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>GOP Sen. Tim Scott will reportedly announce he is running for President three weeks from today &#8211; May 22 in his native South Carolina. Scott could be a formidable candidate if he can convince GOP voters to move away from both Trump and DeSantis to a fresh face. Scott is, no doubt, hoping he can win the South Carolina Primary &#8211; his home state &#8211; which comes early in the GOP Primary process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It&#8217;s still a longshot. President Trump is very popular in South Carolina, and you now have two South Carolina politicians &#8211; Scott and former Gov. Nikki Haley &#8211; who will split the hometown vote in the South Carolina Primary. I just don&#8217;t see either of them winning it. But you never know! It will be interesting to watch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Sunday said he will make a \u201cmajor announcement\u201d in Charleston on May 22, weeks after he launched an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/gop-sen-tim-scott-launch-presidential-exploratory-committee-rcna79263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exploratory committee<\/a>&nbsp;for a presidential bid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt is time to make the final step. Please tell your friends. Be in attendance,\u201d Scott said during a town hall in Charleston, South Carolina. \u201cNorth Charleston \u2014 more details coming your way. We will have a major announcement, and you\u2019re going to want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott, who had been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/sen-tim-scott-test-drives-potential-2024-campaign-message-rcna70444\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">teasing a White House bid&nbsp;<\/a>for months, launched an&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/gop-sen-tim-scott-launch-presidential-exploratory-committee-rcna79263\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">exploratory committee<\/a>&nbsp;for a 2024 presidential campaign last month. In a video announcing the exploratory committee, Scott said the nation is once again being tested as he took aim at President Joe Biden, who is seeking a second term in office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cJoe Biden and the radical left have chosen a culture of grievance over greatness,\u201d Scott said in the video announcing his exploratory committee. \u201cThey\u2019re promoting victimhood instead of personal responsibility, and they\u2019re indoctrinating our children to believe we live in an evil country.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Scott echoed his message that the left is undermining the \u201cAmerican dream\u201d in his remarks on Sunday. . . . <\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2024-election\/gop-sen-tim-scott-signals-official-announcement-presidential-campaign-rcna82202\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NBC NEWS<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOP Sen. Tim Scott will reportedly announce he is running for President three weeks from today &#8211; May 22 in his native South Carolina. Scott could be a formidable candidate if he can convince GOP voters to move away from both Trump and DeSantis to a fresh face. Scott is, no doubt, hoping he can [&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-500","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\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freelyinformed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}