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Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) took a giant step toward entering the 2024 Republican presidential race Wednesday, launching an exploratory committee — as a new poll shows his potential bid falling flat among GOP voters in his home state.
In a video announcement filmed at Fort Sumter, SC, where the first shots of the Civil War were fired, Scott accused President Biden and his fellow Democrats of trying to divide Americans once again.
“Joe Biden and the radical left have chosen a culture of grievance over greatness,” Scott, the only black Republican in the Senate, said in the video.
“They’re promoting victimhood instead of personal responsibility. And they’re indoctrinating our children to believe we live in an evil country,” the 57-year-old added.
“And all too often, when they get called out for their failures, they weaponize race to divide us, to hold on to their power.”
Scott, who was raised by a single mother who worked 16-hour days as a nurse’s assistant, countered in his pitch that “America is the land of opportunity, not a land of oppression.
