Tim Scott, the only Black Republican in the US Senate, kicks off his 2024 presidential campaign. Here are key facts about Scott's life and career ⬇️
Likely Republican presidential candidate and U.S. Senator Tim Scott speaks at a campaign town hall meeting at the New Hampshire Institute of Politics at Saint Anselm College, in Manchester, New Hampshire, U.S., May 8, 2023. REUTERS/Brian Snydera bid for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. He is the only Black Republican candidate so far, and says he is running as an antidote to racial and cultural divisiveness in the United States.
He graduated from Charleston Southern University in political science, and worked as an insurance agent and financial adviser before entering local politics in 1995.Scott was elected to the South Carolina statehouse in 2009, and to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2011. In 2012, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley - now a rival for the Republican presidential nomination - appointed him to replace retiring U.S. Senator Jim DeMint.
"I have experienced the pain of discrimination," he said in a 2021 speech, but added that "America is not a racist country."
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