Tim Scott, the only black candidate who ran against Trump

Tim Scott, the only black senator from the Republican Party, officially presented his candidacy for the 2024 presidential election on Monday. the deep south from the United States. Scott will face a tough primary in which his two main opponents, Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis, will defeat him a significant advantage.

In the gymnasium of his university in Charleston, Scott took a mass bath and presented his ideology, which includes a strong hand against the enemies of the United States and a restoration of the values ​​of the founders. He accused Joe Biden of distance the state “from patriotism and religion”. In a video released earlier this year in which he announced he was exploring the possibility of a run, Scott accused Democrats of following a “road map to destroy” America, against which he presented himself as the solution. “I’m the candidate the left fears the most,” he said Monday.

An evangelical Christian, his religious beliefs could be one of the pillars of his campaign. With abortion rights as one of the key issues in the presidential election, Scott defines himself as a “pro-life” advocate.

from the deep south

Born in South Carolina, he was raised by a divorced mother and is the grandson of cotton workers, and he considers himself an example of the American dream. This Monday, he turned to his family history to bolster his speech: “My family went from cotton to Congress. And that was possible because my grandfather had a stubborn faith.

Tony Scott’s political career took off in 2009 after he was elected to the Congress of his state, from where he jumped into the US House of Representatives in 2011. Later, thanks to the nomination of Nikki Haley, then-governor Carolina Del Sur, now Scott’s primary rival, he filled Jim DeMint’s Senate seat in 2013.

His southern origins enabled him to become the first African-American Republican congressman in 2011 and 2013, respectively, and later the first senator sent to Congress from a southern state since Reconstruction (1860-1880), as the period of reunification of the two sides, slave owners and abolitionists, is known, after the civil war.

During recent years, in which the Republican Party has been deeply divided over the figure of Trump, South Carolina has been Rare avis: He never positioned himself for or against the tycoon. However, after Trump defended a rally of white racists in Virginia, Sen he publicly criticized him and from her seat in the Senate, she helped remove two judges nominated by Trump based on their xenophobic views.

According to the Harvard/Harris polls, given the possibility of a crossover with the favorite, Scott would get 21% of the vote and Trump 79%.