Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., has taken the first step toward the race for the White House.
The prominent Republican senator announced the news accompanied by a slickly produced video on Twitter earlier this morning.
Scott vowed that he'd “never back down in defense of the conservative values that make America exceptional.”
“That's why I'm announcing my exploratory committee for President of the United States,” he added.
As The Washington Times reports:
The presidential exploratory committee allows Mr. Scott to raise funds for expenses such as polling or travel before making the leap into the race.
He would square off against Mr. Trump and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, the Republican who appointed him to his Senate in 2012 before he won a series of elections to remain a senator.
Other Republicans, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, are expected to enter the race.
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Good need some new Blood for sure
I for one am impressed. Sen. Tim Scott just might be the kind of man to unite America, the kind of unifier that Balack Obama deceptively pretended to be, all the while promoting his own evil, transformative, racist agenda and creating and populating an unelected Deep State as a fifth column for sabotage and subversion.