Scott's choice gives different competitors of Conservative Faction slight benefit to unseat leader Donald Trump
Monday, November 13, 2023
Republican Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina has dropped out of the US presidential race, acknowledging that Donald Trump continues to lead in primary polls and sees no way to win the Republican nomination.
In an interview with Fox News on Sunday night, Scott announced he was suspending his candidacy, giving other candidates trying to unseat front-runner Donald Trump a slight advantage, The Guardian reported.
"I think it was really clear to the voters, who are the most remarkable people on the planet, that they were saying to me, 'Not now, Tim,'" he said.
Scott, the only black Republican serving in the Senate, made the announcement six months after launching his White House bid with an optimistic vision of America's future.
He used his mother's personal story as a single mother to argue for America's greatness, accusing Joe Biden and other Democrats of "attacking every rung of the ladder that helped me climb."
"We live in a country where it's absolutely possible for a child raised in poverty in a single-parent home in a small apartment to one day serve in a people's home and maybe even in the White House," Scott said when he announced his candidacy. in May.
“This is the largest land on God's green earth.
To boost his prospects for the nomination, Scott has recently shifted to darker rhetoric on the campaign trail.
He argued that black Americans could tolerate slavery better than President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, which focused on fighting poverty and spawned welfare initiatives like Medicare and Medicaid.
This angered critics who believed that Scott was minimizing the horrors of slavery.
Scott also criticized Biden for his response to the October 7 Hamas attacks, accusing him of inadvertently causing violence. This sparked outrage and criticism of Biden's foreign policy.
Scott later praised Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for his "restraint" in responding to Hamas attacks, despite Israeli airstrikes killing Palestinians.
Despite his shift to tougher rhetoric, Scott's support in national primary polls remained low, leaving him with no path to the nomination.
