Tim Scott Officially Launched His Presidential Campaign

If Scott is successful, he would be the first African American to win the Republican presidential nomination and the second elected to the presidency.

South Carolina Senator Tim Scott has officially filed to run for president.

The only African American senator made his campaign announcement in his hometown of North Charleston on Monday at Charleston Southern University.

On Tuesday, Scott is set to spend the day with donors in Charleston before a two-day campaign swing to Iowa and New Hampshire.

Scott enters the 2024 GOP race joining competitors, Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, Asa Hutchinson and Vivek Ramaswamy.

The senator will enter the race with more cash than any other presidential candidate in U.S. history as he had $22 million left in his campaign bank account at the end of his 2022 campaign and plans to immediately transfer that to his presidential coffers.

If Scott is successful, he would be the first African American to win the Republican presidential nomination and the second elected to the presidency.