Republican Senator Tim Scott has announced that he will support former US President Donald Trump in the Republican Party primaries for the November 5, 2024 presidential election. Scott said this during a Trump campaign rally in Concord, New Hampshire, the state where the next primary election will take place on Tuesday, January 23 (the caucuses in Iowa, the first state where the party's voters had the opportunity to choose who they wanted to nominate were clearly won by Trump).
Tim Scott is 58 years old and the only African-American Republican senator. He ran in the party's primaries last May but withdrew in November after participating in the first three candidate debates (which Trump never wanted to attend).
Scott has been a senator from South Carolina since 2014 and ran in the primary with a more “peaceful” tone than the other candidates. At the start of his campaign, he had raised $22 million, a fairly impressive sum that was largely used for television ads supporting his candidacy. However, according to several US newspapers, his “sunny optimism” had not worked in a party dominated by the polemical and combative rhetoric of former President Donald Trump and hoping to win the primaries despite the various trials against him.
– Also read: The Iowa caucuses, seen from there