U.S. Sen. Tim Scott grew up poor, and his divorced mother worked 16-hour days to raise him and his older brother, Ben.
In his official 2024 presidential launch, South Carolina’s junior senator portrays his life not of struggle but one of opportunity: he nearly failed out of high school, started his own business and was elected to statewide political office.
But is that positive message enough to convince Republican Party voters to abandon the party’s frontrunner, former President Donald Trump? Scott, 57, thinks so.
