
Senator Tim Scott announced his bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nominations during a rally in South Carolina on 22 May 2023.
Mr Scott is the only Black Republican member of the upper chamber and has officially declared himself a candidate for president in next year’s Republican primary election on Friday 19 May 2023, when he designated his official campaign committee as “Tim Scott for America”, with a campaign address in the Palmetto State’s capital, Charleston.