{"id":29126,"date":"2023-04-30T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-30T23:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-senator-tim-scott\/"},"modified":"2023-04-30T23:03:22","modified_gmt":"2023-04-30T23:03:22","slug":"us-senator-tim-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-senator-tim-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator Tim Scott teases May 22 announcement on presidential bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211;     Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott plans to announce his decision on entering the 2024 presidential on May 22, according to media reports on Sunday, in a potential challenge to former President Donald Trump for the party&#8217;s nomination.<\/p>\n<p>Scott, only Black Republican in the Senate, has sought to focus on his ability &#8220;to disrupt the narrative&#8221; of race, while criticizing President Joe Biden and other Democrats on crime, inflation and other issues.<\/p>\n<p>He made the announcement at a town hall in South Carolina on Sunday, according to media reports.<\/p>\n<p>Scott launched a presidential exploratory committee earlier this month, which allowed him to raise his national profile and continue fundraising with fewer regulatory limitations than a formal campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He is polling at about 2% support in national polls. Trump and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has not declared a bid but is expected to do so, are the two Republican front-runners by a significant margin. <\/p>\n<p>If Scott formally announces his intent to enter the presidential race, he will join former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in the quest for the Republican nomination. <\/p>\n<p>Former biotech executive Vivek Ramaswamy, conservative talk radio host Larry Elder and former Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson are also Republican contenders. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Laura Sanicola; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/us-senator-tim-scott\/file-photo-senator-tim-scott-in-washington\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3T0A3-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3T0A3-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (Reuters) &#8211; Republican U.S. Senator Tim Scott plans to announce his decision on entering the 2024 presidential on May 22, according to media reports on Sunday, in a potential challenge to former President Donald Trump for the party&#8217;s nomination. Scott, only Black Republican in the Senate, has sought to focus on his ability &#8220;to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":29127,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-domestic"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportDomesticNews\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3T0A3-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29126"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29128,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29126\/revisions\/29128"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}